Welcome to the world of me

For anyone who does not know me I am a girl who is having a mini qtr life crisis and have decided to give up on the 9-5 everyday office job and head for the world of travelling.   

My first stop is Australia (with a mini stopover in Dubai on route) where I plan to spend a year traveling and working my way around followed by a year in Canada doing the exact same thing.

After then, who knows?!  

I hope you enjoy reading about my adventures!

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The end of the East Coast adventure

Well my friends it has come to the time where I finish my East Coast trip and head back to reality.

I finished up in Cairns where I have just spent the last six nights. Whilst I was here I got to catch up with all the people who I had met over the last five weeks traveling. It was so nice for us all to be together to celebrate the end of one adventure and for most the start of a new one.

I also was able to go to Port Douglas which is quite possible the most beautiful place I saw on the East Coast. Myself and a couple of friends headed there for a bit of lunch and walk along the beach and it was just such a nice day.

One of my days was spent on a trip called Fun, Falls and Forest which was pretty much as stated. We had fun playing in waterfalls and walking through forests. We even got to go to where they filmed the hair flick for the Herbal essence advert. Wow was that cold when we tried to recreate it.

Other than that I mostly relaxed by the lagoon (you can't go in the sea here for fear of being eaten), ate some lovely food and drunk more than my fair share of alcohol. I knew once this was over I was going to have to go back to reality and start my exciting search of looking for a job so was making the most of my last few days of lovely warm sunshine.

So here I am sat back at Jo and Marks in Melbourne with temperatures that I haven't felt since leaving England and thinking back over the adventures of my last five weeks.

I really have had such a great time and met some amazing lifelong friends who I cannot wait to meet up with again very soon. I have had some amazing experiences from cave diving to sky diving to white water rafting and I have enjoyed every single second of it.

Unfortunately finding work does not create too many interesting stories so unless something really epic happens this will be the last post I write for a little while. I really hope you have enjoyed reading about my journey and I cannot wait to start another adventure again soon.

Therefore this is not goodbye and merely just see you soon!

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Skydiveeee!

To continue on my adventures at Mission beach I decided to book and do a skydive.

I have wanted to do one for so long and had previously thought about doing it in the UK however it just seemed a little more special to throw myself to my death in Australia instead.

Some friends of mine had been booked in for a couple of days before but due to the unreliable Australian weather they had to be cancelled as it would not stop raining.

I was convinced that mine also would be cancelled and on the morning of the jump was expecting to receive a phone call telling me to stay in bed. However this was not the case.

We were picked up and driven to the jump centre where we were advised that they were going to try and get some people up however due to the low clouds it was not looking likely. So off I went to park myself on a bench planning to catch up on the sleep I had not had due to getting up early.

After what seemed like hours but really was probably about forty five minutes a guy came in and told us to get downstairs and ready as they were going to try and get us up, still the whole time telling us they were not sure we could jump.

I was put in my sexy harness and introduced to my dive instructor (ladies you would have been jealous of this one as he wasn't too bad on the eye) and off we set to the field to board the plane.

When we arrived we were once again stopped and told we were not sure we could go up and by this stage I was starting to get a little nervous and just wanted it to happen. The next thing I knew they were given the go and we were all being rushed to the plane and strapped in ready to take off.

Finally we were up in the air. This was when my nerves really kicked in and I was thinking to myself what the hell was I doing? Why would anyone want to be so stupid as to throw themselves out of a plane and hurtle towards the ground? Too late to back out now.

After about twenty minutes of climbing we made it to our required height of a measly fourteen thousand feet. Ahhhh!

We circled for a bit, went through the safety instructions and then bam the door was open and the three brave soldiers in front of me took their places and were literally sucked out of the plane. Just as it was about to be my turn they slammed the door shut and hit the red light which basically meant the people on ground had said we couldn't jump.

I was gutted, I had come all this was only to be told once again we might not be able to go. However after about another five minutes they changed the light to green and I honestly do not think I have seen someone move as fast as what my instructor did. He wasn't taking any chances and before I knew it we were out that door and flying through the air.

I can honestly say free falling is the strangest feeling in the world. It does not really feel real and you sort of feel like you are just hanging in mid air. By this point I was no longer nervous and was just embracing the moment.

After sixty seconds we opened the parachute and floated the rest of the way over the sea back down to the safety of the beach doing a few spins and me on occasion being trusted to control the direction.

Once we landed it all sort of felt like it had been a dream but an amazing one.

Would I do it again? Yes but not any time soon. The adrenalin rush would be too much to have again so quickly and besides there are many other things I need to tick off my extreme sport bucket list.

Next stop - bungy jumping :o)

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