Blog Day 136 Mon 19th September 2011 So up bright & early today with ease, purely because we are excited to be picking up our new home come set of wheels for the next 77 days. We take the shuttle bus into town & walk a further 15 minutes out of town to the Spaceship offices. We arrive at the office, fill in a few forms & get told we can pick 4 films from the table in the corner. The guy apologises for the lack of films & how poor the general se...

Blog Day 130-133 Tues 13th-Fri 16th September 2011 The next 4 days may as well be summed up into the following: Not getting up until anything between 11am-2pm our sleeping pattern seems to be really messed up & we can't get it on track, not that sleeping in a hostel that doesn't actually become silent until round 3am helps! Wandering around the town & esplanade lagoon area which is really nice & generally chilling out, one day only leaving the...

Blog Day 129 Monday 12th September 2011 Today is Great Barrier Reef Day!!! We are up early and there doesn't seem to be much life at the hostel, so we decide to walk to the terminal which is about 45mins away. When we arrive there we have about a 20 minute wait before Sharne turns up, during which time the Nomads shuttle bus pulls up. Turns out they do take people to the terminal! DOH! Sharne arrives and gets us all checked in, she has managed to get hold ...

Blog Day 127 Sat 10th September 2011 Ok so today pretty much ends up going the same way as yesterday, must be the change of timing & atmosphere because our sleep pattern is all up the shoot. We rise around 10ish once again thanks to the sound of a hoover making its way into our room until again they realise we are actually still in bed. We jump in the shower & get the 11am shuttle down to the Esplanade. We have researched a couple of café's for cheap ...

Blog Day 126 Fri 9th September 2011 World Cup kicks of today! Okay so today we were supposed to get up & go explore what's around & find out about Great Barrier Reef tours & Greyhound Buses, this does not go to plan though. 10am rolls around, we awake when there's the sound of a hoover & the shout of 'Housekeeping' as our door opens, they quickly dive out & we fall back to sleep. We ashamedly admit that we don't re-awake until gone 2pm, w...