The East Coast - finally! Well my trip down the East Coast is rather brief as I have from 22nd April till 15th May to cover all the attractions but, do you know, I think it is enougth time! In Brief: 22nd April and 23rd April, Cairns - Day trip out to the Great Barrier reef, we went out on a boat to the reef and I got to do an introductory scuba dive as I don't have my PADI certificate - it was pretty good but not quite as full of fish or as colourful as I exp...

Tour from Adelaide to Alice Springs -14th April till 21st April Well I did a wine tour on the 14th of the famous Barrossa Wine Valley - the biggest place for exported wine in Australia. They are pretty famous for their Shiraz so it would be rude not to aye!! I commenced the tour to Alice Springs on the 15th April.

This was a three day / two night tour that came highly recommended and it was brilliant! I had an amazing time!

Melbourne to Adelaide (Great Ocean Road), 7th April to 9th April. I met my tour bus early in the morning to be rather suprised that the guide was actually a 23 year old welsh girl - not who you would expect to pass on their knowledge of history, culture and geology aye!!?? She was very nice but a terrible tour guide! After such a good one for Tasmania as well! The tour group was called Groovy Grape so I noted to myself not to use them again - the whole point of ...

After Tasmania I flew back to Melbourne with a rough plan in my mind of what I was going to do next and what path I was going to take around Australia; to my dismay all the tours I wanted to go on were all booked up so instead of one day I intended to stay in Melbourne I had 5 days to wait till I could get onto the tour I wanted! I used my time to do some research on the free internet in the library and got everything sorted for the rest of my Australia trip. I...