We have had such a jam packed few days in Cairns and have loved it here. We had another boat trip to the great barrier reef and it was suprisingly great! We had the best moment of the whole trip on the way to the reef when a pod of 7 huge humpback whales were in front of our boat! On our second day in Cairns we took a trip to the Atherton Tabletops not far from Cairns. We saw loads of amazing waterfalls and had such a good day! One of the waterfalls we went too...

From previous experiences with boats on our trip we should have thought about choosing a sailing boat a bit more carefully! We were "lucky" enough to get a double bed on the boat, it was 10x better than the bunk beds however it was far from anything we had imagined. We had packed shampoo and conditioner but I dont know what we were hoping for beacuse there wasnt even a shower! We both said we weren't going to go into the sea in Australia but somehow we found our...

We had an amazing three days on Fraser Island, up there with highights of the trip so far! Over the course of the the three days we got to enjoy natural lakes, rock pools and plenty of rainforest walks. We were lucky enough to see so many different wild animals, inlcuding snakes, dingos, sharks and most importantly a huge humpback whale which we saw so close to the shore! We also made some really good friends on the trip, another couple from England so it was n...

On Sunday we arrived in Surfers Paradise, our first stop on the Gold Coast. It was only a 3 hour coach journey from Byron Bay, so as soon as we got there and checked into our hostel we had time to go and look around. We also ended up having a 4 bed room to ourselves too which was a bit of luck. There wasn't too much to do in surfers paradise and we spent most of our time shopping and eating, Carys was in her element with all the shops. After a couple days of sho...