Hello Everyone! I had a little time on my hands today, so I thought I would update this now, so we don't end up with a massive post like the last one.
We spent another couple days in Townsville after returning from our dive trip. We went to this tourist attraction called Reeg HQ, and got to see and identify lots of the fish we saw while out on the reef. It was really cool. They had a large shark in the aquaium as well - glad I didn't see one of those while I was on the reef.
We are now in Cairns. Thought the car was going to blow up on us on our way here. It all of a sudden started making this clicking noise and we didn't know what was going on. We camped out on the side of the road for the night. In the morning, handy man Trev checked under the hood and discovered we had absolutely no oil in the car. Once we filled that up it was smooth sailing the rest of the way.
We got into Cairns early Friday afternoon - the 15th I think. We knew we wanted to work in Cairns, but we didn't know where to start. We just started walking around and found a recruitment agency that need waitress to work right away - so they put me to work Fri night! We also went to another agency looking for labourors to pick watermelons. Trev started first thing Sat. morning. We were amazed at how easy it was to find jobs. While Trev was out picking melons, I handed out a few more resumes (the recruitment agency was a little sketchy, so I wanted to see what else I could find), but got hired at the first place I went to. I had my trial shift Sat night and worked the next 3 nights.
It's been weird though. Trev and I went from being together 24/7, to hardly seeing each other. He goes to work at 6:30 am and doesn't get back till 6:30 pm, and I am already gone to work for 6:00 and then he is in bed by the time I get home from work. The only time we see each other is in the morning when I get up for breakfast with him.
Cairns has been pretty cool so far. Trev and I have both met some great people. Trev has been hanging out with some Irish guys that he works with who like to drink - a lot! I have been spending the beautiful sunny days working on my tan ( or should I say getting burnt!). We plan to stay here about 4 weeks, then we'll be on our way down the east coast to Sydney - sun and beaches all the way!
Cheers!