Cape Tribulation was not originaly on either of our agendas, but after chatting to some people from our previous tours, it became a 'must see'. Now I know Dave is very sceptical of the 'must see' phenomina, but the sources were pretty reliable so we decided to give it a go. After a few much needed, but entirely boring, days in Cairns and an incredible frustrating conversation with an Austrian travel rep we were booked on ANOTHER tour. This was to be honest the l...

So after another night under the stars, Davey was feeling very very poorly. We hadn't slept all night because his throat was so sore it was like swallowing razor blades. He very wisely decided to not do the final walk of the trip. Unfortunately, they'd saved the best till last with Kings Canyon. It was 15 up a very steep "heart attack hill". Then across the top of the most beautiful canyon, the best in the world as The Grand Canyon, isn't technically a...

I should have of course mentioned that whilst staying at Uluru we were 'SWAGGING IT' this means sleeping in a pouch made of the same stuff as wax macs, which has a cushioned matt in it and you sleep inside your sleeping bag, in it. So much fun, real experience, sleeping under the stars. We woke up at stupid o'clock the next morning to watch the sunrise. Just as beautiful as sunset. And I saw Paul Robinsons daughter from neighbours. We then did the base walk whi...

And so to Uluru! And for all you uneducated people out there, Ayers Rock (I only found out since Ive been in Oz). The miles we have to cover in a day are huge so we didn't do much else today! We crossed the border which was pretty cool. But apart from that it was all about getting to Uluru in time for sunset. We got to camp and sorted out food etc. Then we made the short journey to the sunset point. Of course there were hundreds of others to see the spectical to...

Another stupidly early morning, YEAY! The road was the Stuart highway and it was LONG!!! with nothing between stops and stops were rare. Our first however was fun and exciting. It was up until about 30 years ago a top secret site for testing weapons!!! Woooo. Its called Woomera. We saw replicas of lots of war things, not my cup of tea but it was quite cool that it was previously unknown. Next was the Salt Lake. These are left from the central ocean that had cov...