Deep Sea Diver

For our last weekend in Oz we spent the night on the Great Barrier Reef aboard a dive boat. I decided not to dive as going deaf before getting to Japan would be bad. But Kieran enjoyed a few dives, including a nighttime dive surrounded by sharks!!!! Very brave! I meanwhile photographed his shenanigans, and did some hardcore snorkelling. The conditions were pretty rough but we managed to see some beautiful reef and fish and a big green turtle.

Kieran is the one with his finger in his ear

Kieran with the photographer herself.

Moustache Diaries

As everyone knows Kieran gave up shaving for Lent. On Easter Sunday he started messing around with the beard and it's taken him nearly a week to finally shave it off. I have photographed the various stages of removal. I particularly like the musketeer moustache and little beardy bit.

Full on 40 day beard

In this one he's just trimmed it a bit with scissors

The musketeer

and the Morgan Spurlock!

What's your favourite?

Tokyo Calling...

We fly tomorrow, the 17th to Tokyo and the unfamiliar world of employment. We start work proper next Monday, teaching english with the Nova School (after eight months of travelling) so we have a few days to settle into our new home. We have a flat somewhere outside Tokyo and here's the address:

#306 Lions Mansion Akitsu
2-22-1 Akitsucho
Higashi Murayama-Shi
Tokyo-To
189-0001
Japan

Carry on camping

Or carry on campervanning! We hired a van for five days and went travelling through Queensland. it was only a wee van but cosy. Bit hot in the evenings and the mozzies made life a little tricky but it was good fun and we saw some beautiful places, 4 mile beach in Port Douglas, Cape Tribulation where Capt Cook struck the reef. We had our own mini adventure there ourselves. We found a really nice campsite 50 yards from the sea and were woken up in the morning by the owner knocking on our van at 8:30! bit odd until we found out he was waking everyone to alert us to the Tsunami warning for North Queensland coast after a huge 8 point something earthquake in the South Pacific! We quickly packed up and headed for the hills, breakfasting at a safe height for an hour or two until the all clear was given. Bit of excitement. We then headed into the Atherton Tableland and visited loads of waterfalls, some hot springs before heading back to Cairns to receive our Visas for Japan! More on that to follow....