So - here we are, back out on the backpacker trail! And boy is it a shock to the system!!! Since I last updated we have continued to enjoy Perth and its beautiful winter sunshine. On Monday we went to Rottnest Island - 20km off the coast from Fremantle it has beautiful water, lovely beaches and a unique resident - the Quokka. After a truly horrendous ferry journey over (I could have cried) I needed to give my legs time to get over the jelly wobbles before...

Hello! We are still here in Perth, having a lovely time and eating enough food to feed a small African country. We are going to have to be rolled off the plane in Singapore! We've had a very nice, chilled out weekend - spent the day at home yesterday, and finished it off with an absolute curry feast and the footy - once again, its such a hard life! Today we went to Cottesloe Beach with Sarah's Aunt Anne, her husband Jeff and their daughters Jenny and Chloe, a...

First things first - apologies for the incredible delay in updating! This has got to be the longest time between entries since I started the diary! But the simple answer is that I just haven't had a chance to get to the internet to write an entry.....so this could be a big 'un! I'll go back to my last update, and fill you in on everything since! While we were in Cairns, we did 2 day trips - the first to the Great Barrier Reef, and the second to Cape Trib...

We made it to Cairns! Final destination on this leg of the trip! And as if to give us something to remember them by, Greyhound decided to present us with a shocker of a last bus journey. The bus was an hour late leaving Townsville, and broke down about half an hour later, leaving us waiting yet another hour for a replacement....lovely. We couldn't fault the Greyhound all the way to Brisbane, but its been disastrous ever since! But anyway, we made it and ...

Once again, the intrepid travellers have returned, and are back safe and sound on dry land. And, I'm sure you will be pleased to hear, with big smiles on our faces!! Turns out the weather wasn't so bad after all... When we left on Monday afternoon it was still horrid, we spent the 2 hour journey to our resort on South Molle Island inside the boat while some of the hardier passengers braved the drizzle. We then got soaked to the skin walking to the cockta...