well its only a few hours to go before im 'leaving on a jet plane!' Had a fantastic time touring around oz but ready to move on now and what better place to start than bali.... oh yes balanise/bolognase people (whatever your called) get ready cos me n shelley are about to flee the nest to your neck of the woods!!!

Well stephen left me a few days ago n im gutted! Stephen if you read this you've been a little star, proper looked after me and couldnt of wished for a better person to travel with than you, your ace n im gonna miss you so much! My mum will probably be awarding you with a george cross when you get home cos f**k me, you deserve one!

Shelley came up to meet us in cairns last week and we took a drive upto port douglas to where me n stephen turned into little mermaid n flipper and went scuba diving off the great barrier reef..... AMAZING! I was a bit nervous at first cos the air tanks that you have on your back are so heavy, i said to the instructor...'hold on a chow kidda, im gonna sink straight to bottom with this on me back!' Anyways i didnt n slowly desended down with the rest of the group. Saw everything, reef sharks, turtles, i even found nemo! I got told off though at one point cos i found this big catarpiller thing so i picked it up, squeezed it n it squirted all this stuff out! Was funny though. Enjoyed it that much that we did a second dive later on.

The next day stephen left and me n shelly drove upto the cape of tribulation, where the timote advert was filmed in the waterfall. The rain forest was amazing and lived upto its name cos it did nowt but piss it down! It was still good fun though, especially driving through the rivers that had over flowed with all the rain, we stoppede over the night then headed back down to cains as the camper van had to be handed back. Weve done over 5000k in under a month in the van and guess what, i managed not to put one scratch on it!!

you wont believe this but the weathers that bad in cairns that we've been playing squash, tennis, owt to pass on time cos for the past 2 weeks its just rained constantly. Lost nearly all my tan so cant wait to get on them beaches in bali n bake myself! The last few nights weve had out in cairns have been good, especially stephens send off where we danced on tables and basically had a good old laugh! When we got back to the van later on that night though, me n shell decided to walk to this little park thing near by where we got told off by security guards but then made friends with them and managed to get a ride home in this golf buggy type thing! (check out the photos) Anyways thats all for now, but im sure ill be in touch soon with some more travelling tales. Keep in touch,

Love al xxxxxxxxxxxx