A whole lot of scuba diving!

Sorry for it being so dam long since I've updated this blog, but wow, busy much! 

For a change of pace I havn't been drinking much, if really at all, in this party based city Cairns.  Shocking.  Remember on one of my last posts, I spoke about living on board a dive boat for a few days diving the reef? Well, over the past 3ish weeks I have spent nearly all of it on board that boat working and diving.  Basically I make the beds and do the dishes, but get to dive up to 4 times a day for free and have all the board and food paid for, and its not that much work really.  Its great, infact it's amazing, basically living for free on the boat and diving everyday, problem is the food is waaay too good.  With 12 days left in Cairns, 10 of those will be spent on board at various spots on the great barrier reef, yay!

Good news, got a job sorted, starts on the 6th of October in Roma, one flight and a bus trip away from Cairns.  O yea, sold my car for $300 on top of what I paid for it, which is great.  The job is running a combine harvester, very similar to what I was operating last year in WA, but this time its a whole lot newer and in QLD.  Good thing is, $32 per hour and job finishes in February, and on new year the boss is flying us all out to Sydney for a week off.  So I am really looking forward to earning some real money.  My tax refund of $2000 will be in my account in 2 weeks, money from Paul (my old boss) of $3000 will be in my account next week and and I sold my car, so things are going well here.  

So with the money going well and lots of diving and work with Deep Sea Divers Den, they have offered me to do an Instructor internship.  I achieved my Rescue Diver certification, and after my job finishes in February I'm flying to Thailand to do my Divemaster, so much cheaper there than Australia.  And after I have done that, Deep Sea Divers Den will train me to become a dive instructor for free as long as I sign a contract to work for them for 6 months.  Obviously I havn't signed anything, as I don't have to agree to anything until February, but I would LOVE to be a dive instructor here, so much fun.  We'll see......

But anyway, on dry land for only today, so lots of washing and stuff to do before I ship out again tomorrow.

Speek to you all soon

Ryan x