Well, todays the moment of truth for Frank. We tok him to Kmart where we had booked him in for a service, it didn't go too well though because it turns out that we booked him for next Tuesday not today! Oh dear. So now we had to set off looking for a mechanic that could fit him in today as we're really anxious to get on the road. We found one who had time to do a service and check him over in the afternoon so we left him there, we were told that with the problems...

e had to get up at 6 this morning and make our way to the marina for our reef trip, whist Charlotte stayed in bed. We got there at the right time and parked up and walked the 10 minutes from the car park to the check in desk, here we realised that we hadn't locked the car and that we had left our cruise ticket back at the campsite! After the usual conversation of whose fault it was that we'd left the ticket back in the cabin and who had forgot to lock the car we ...

We nipped into the city for this morning and after lunch we went to Cairns Tropical Zoo. It was mainly Australian animals and it had a good croc show - finally got to see them, even if it was a zoo! There were all the usual Aussie animals there - kangaroos, casowrays, koalas, wombats and red pandas as well. It was a good day out and kept us busy whilst waiting for the car to be sorted we've booked to go diving tomorrow so that should be fun. We met a couple from...

This morning we left for Cairns, we were going to head here for a few days, get the car checked over and then the 3 of us were going to drive over to Darwin. The drive down is along the Captain Cook Highway, and drives right along the coast. We found a campsite that was quite near the centre and booked into a nice cabin. We went for a look round Cairns. We weren't sure what to expec from Cairns, we'd heard a lot of different stories about it but our first impres...

This morning we decided it might be fun to completely change our plans of going back down the coast and instead driving West for 4 or 5 days to Darwin, followed by another mammoth drive to the South coast via a big rock, hhhmmmm could be fun... We went for a beer in town and did a bit of shopping before a barbeque in the park watching the sunset. When we got back we got chatting to one of the most annoying people in the world - some guy from Warwick who thought ...