Week 23- New Zealand (Auckland) Day 1 Today we were leaving Australia for New Zealand :-( We are both really sad about leaving Oz and wanted more time here! We have had the best 7 weeks and the past 3 weeks with Brad and Wendy with us have been incredible. We got up reasonably early ready to pack our rucksacks, this took a while... Trying to squeeze it all back in (I have sent loads back with Brad too). We had some breakfast then had to head back to car rental...

Week 22- Australia (Cairns) Day 7 Our last day in Australia NOOOOOOOOOO!! So not ready to leave beautiful Australia but we are both very excited for the next chapter of our travelling story New Zealand. Had breakfast in Port Douglas then headed to the beach for the morning, need to catch all the rays possible for NZ. After a chilled morning we drove back to Cairns where we were staying in a hotel for the night ohhhhhhh! Once we arrived Brad and Char went to grab...

Week 22- Australia (Port Douglas) Day 6 We had a big day ahead of us today. We were exploring the beautiful rainforest which is Cape Tribulation. We got up early, had our breakfast and was in the car by 9am. Starting the day with Gemma nearly running over Brad as she didn't realise he wasn't in the car, it was rather entertaining! We drove to the very top of Cape Trib up a bumpy and unpathed road. We decided to go to the top and work our way down. Our first stop...

Week 22- Australia (Cape Tribulation) Day 5 Today was the start of our road trip up to Cape Trib :) our first stop was Hartleys Crocodile Farm. We saw a crocodile feeding show which was quite cool. They were salt water crocodiles and the boys were huge!! They weighed about 350kgs! We then went to watch them feed the smaller fresh water crocodiles and the keeper actually got into the water with the crocodiles to feed them! They are mental. The crocodiles all knew...

Week 22- Australia (Cairns) Day 4 Today we went to see the Great Barrier Reef and were all really excited. As always we were up early and walked down to the harbour to check in. We were on the 'Passions for Paradise' boat. As we checked in we bumped into Dorothy and Steven again... They were on the same trip! This is about the 4th time we have bumped into them on trips so we all found it very entertaining! We boarded the boat and had a nice cuppa tea on the fr...