The Adventures of P-Squared: We found Nemo!... and a whole lot more!

Sadly.. this is the last city of our trip down under :( :( Luckily, it's filled with action packed adventures!!

We arrived at the fabulous Shangri La Hotel in Cairns... what a perfect view of the marina from our hotel balcony (again, go Parimal and his awesome hotel finding internet skills).

Day one in Cairns was spent with Ocean Freedom where we went SCUBA DIVING!! Not once... but TWICE! We decided to "hire" (the Aussie way of saying "rent") a fancy underwater camera to capture all our undersea adventures and you can feel like you were right there with us (yes, folks, we took 600+ pictures underwater alone... we filtered, don't worry).

Wet suits on? Check! Got our scuba gear? Check again! Ready to face the sharks? uhm... we'll see. Our diving guide was fantastic... On our first dive, we got to hold a star fish and saw clown fish (aka NEMO!!), a HUGE turtle and a bunch of manta rays and a gazillion fish and coral. It really is a different world down there. After a quick break for lunch, we signed up for the second dive in hopes to see a shark!

Our second dive was even more amazing since we were able to swim on our own. We did actually get to see a shark in its cave (turns out she's pregnant) and a huge manta ray! The manta ray was the size of 5 Parimals put together! Our boat guides were telling us that the ray and shark were buddies and you could always find them together...

Beyond finding Nemo again (they were just so cute!), we saw blue spotted rays this time around as well.. they look scary but thankfully they didn't sting Parimal (since he saw 2-3 of them together and actually started sinking since he was too cool to put a life jacket on). Piyusha also spotted an eel.... which slithered away before Parimal saw it.

When we returned our hired underwater camera, the store owner was pretty impressed that we managed to take 600 pictures in a matter of 4 hours... he obviously doesn't know how picture happy we can be :)