26th September - Dive this!

Cairns is here, heat is with us, all 26 degrees plus humidity. Fantastic, though we have to acclimatise again. The place is pretty cool, shorts and bikins are mandatory clothing as are thongs. No, no, not the underwear kind, no those crazed buffoons call flip flops thongs, idiots! I mean some other fools call them jandals!

First things first, we need to book dive courses, the only reason Carins is on the map really, a great big living city called the Barrier reef. We pimped around nearly every shop in the town as well. Sarah needs to do her open water padi course and I was going to go along for the ride. So before we book anything, medicals...

That's right... I failed the dive medical, the B******S! Asthma apparently can really kill you under the sea in many ways. AND they told me I was 'Permanently unfit'... PERMANENTLY???... how dare they! Do they not know who I am! Did they not get the memo. Damn them all! Also I can't dive for 5 years after I am cured!? Damn doctors! Cost me $48 to find that out, some other guy wants me to see a specialist for another crack at it for $110, shoved that up his a**. Rant over.

So... Sarah is booked on a 4 day dive course, I am booked to go snorkelling with her on the 5th day, and I get to go on a Motocross bike tour instead to keep me happy. Oh well.
Apart from that everything is pretty chilled out. The Blue Lagoon pool by the jellyfish infested ocean is fantastic and our tans are part way topped up by now. The jealousy on Liz's face will be huge and green.

Laters for now

Pricey landlocked and never to meet Nemo up close which is a good job because I'd punch him in his stupid face, I think I'm still seething over the whole 'Permanently unfit' thing...

PS - We also saw something funny out and about this evening. A group of rowdy uncouth youths were having a kickabout along the pedestrianised shopping strip when their ball went astray. A passing middle aged tourist lady kindly took a swing at it to pass it back, knobbing it straight through a shop window. Oh the shame.