Wahey, finally caught up with all my missing blogs.... Sorry about the delay, I just waited too long and then putting them all in felt a little daunting! I arrived in Cairns last Thursday and bumped in to a couple of girls I'd met before. Went up to the shopping centre with them for a bit of wonder and my first shopping session (only mini!) to get something new for our first night in the famous Gilligans for ladies night. Free champagne for all girls followed by...

Rain, rain, rain, a bit more rain... and guess what? RAIN! I didn't really see much of the beach here. Actually, I didn't even leave the hostel. (Hence why the background picture for this is the entrance to the hostel!) Just had a chilled evening watching finding nemo (much better now I've been to Sydney!) and then an earlyish night. I changed my bus today to leave on the earliest one as I didn't see much point in staying in mission beach for the day. Heading n...

My main reason for visiting Townsville was not to see the area, but I knew it wasn't a major backpacker spot and I needed to use last night to get my head around my university choices and to actually make my final decision (seeing as today is the deadline!) Although not a buzzing town, it was still a nice little city. I had a stroll around the town in the afternoon but used most of the time on the wifi doing last minute comparison lists and stressing and frettin...

Arrived in to townsville on the afternoon of the 5th May and jumped straight on the ferry over to Magnetic Island. I hadn't heard too much about the place other than that I'd got the whole trip for free with oz experience... So I wasn't going to say no to that! Once I'd got the bus to the hostel and got settled, there wasn't a lot of time left in the day to do anything major. I just had a quick explore of the area (it didn't take long!) and then found a few peo...

Arrived in airlie beach in the early hours on the 1st after hopefully my last ever overnight greyhound!! Too tired to sleep I had a quick explore of the local area in the morning and had a wonder up by the gorgeous lagoon and the beach. Unfortunately the time had come to splash my cash on a new camera.... I was trying to do without but it wasn't going to happen!! A bus ride, a big battle with my conscience and $200 later, I was the proud owner of a new waterproof...