Ahoy! Today has been one of the best days of our lives...the Great Barrier Reef is absolutely amazing!!! We woke up early at the B&B and made our way back into Cairns to drop off the hire car, after this we walked to the esplanade and were lucky enough to make it onto the Sunlovers Reef Cruise, which wasn't setting off until 10am! This was a great company and they really looked after us all day even doing a line up wave off when we left the boat! So gettin...

Greetings from Queensland! Local temperature approximately 30 degrees…humidity….80% Yey we have internet! I am so happy that we are able to update you all on the first part of our travels, this place is absolutely amazing! I am certain I am going to be using that word more and more over the next few weeks so I apologise in advance for all the happy adjectives I am about to use. After a really quick flight of 3 ½ hours we landed in Cairns airport and it w...

Hi Everyone! Just a quick last minute Melbourne blog from us! We have had the most hectic week saying goodbye to all our new found Aussie friends and we will be sad to leave but at the same time we are so excited about setting off on our longly awaited travels yey!!! :) Please take a look at our leaving party photos from last night we had quite a good turn out and everyone will be sad to not have Chris around at work(especially Scott and Skeet Chris's ice main...

Hi Everyone! Well, I promised you all updates on our leaving party celebrations so here is the first event.... Last night we went for a SEVEN course Degustation meal at a very swanky modern Japanese restaurant called Taxi in Federation Square. Darren had organised for all the management team to go for a 'Thank you' dinner following the opening of the Icehouse and I was invited along too as a guest :) The location of tonight's meal was one of the poshest restau...

Hi Everyone! Well tonight I am spending my first evening in 5 weeks alone! It feels very strange to have the apartment all to myself again now that all our visitors have left. The apartment has doubled in size and I am sat here now realising the true extent of jobs we still have to do before we leave on Saturday! We dropped Joey off at the airport tonight accompanied by an extremely full set of luggage weighing a massive 29kilos!!! Thank goodness we managed to ...