Hello! This is the last of the big blogs I promise; from now on shorter and more frequent! The last chapter of my Australian trip was a bright and prosperous one. Based at a beautiful and chilled ocean beach location in the suburb of Cottesloe, I brimmed with productivity, completing a three week residency at the University of Western Australia (UWA), making great leaps forward in the organisation of the turtle project, and forming awesome new friendships a...

Hello! Laura and I left Adelaide on 17th March to embark on one of the planet's most legendary journeys: eight days of driving over 3,600kms from Adelaide to Perth across the Nullarbor Plain, taking the long scenic route around the South coast of Australia's largest state, WA. The distances involved were immense (the same as driving from London to Moscow, but stopping off in Italy along the way), and although we had come psychologically well-prepared, nothin...

Hello! I arrived in Adelaide after a two-day drive from Melbourne, stopping for a night cap on route near Bordertown. I ended up just finding a spot next to a swamp in the middle of a forest to camp in, and arrived just at dusk to the sound of a thousand galahs perched above me, all competing for the loudest squark. I remember that it was a surreal night sitting in total darkness alone in the forest, whilst sipping a Little Creatures Pale Ale and watching Fami...

Hello! After a fleeting visit to Tasmania, and a quick switcheroo at Melbourne airport, I flew to Alice Springs. I felt well prepared as to what kind of a place I was going to find there, having read Bill Bryson's account of Alice Springs in his book Down Under - which appears on most backpackers must-read list - but I was actually pretty shocked by the reality of the situation in the Northern Territory. I think it's fair to say that in Metropolitan Australia ...

Hello! I made a decision a short while ago to just make the most of being in Oz and make sure I visited all the places I had ever wanted to, rather than just wasting away the months working in a restaurant somewhere.Tasmania had always been on the drawing board, and originally my bro and I were considering taking the car over on the ferry to explore the island that way, but in the end it just turned out to be prohibitively expensive and the plan was shelved....