Hi All! Apologies for lack of updates recently - we have been rather busy! Will try to give you the lowdown on what we've been up to over the past week or so......... Bundaberg - we spent a few nights at this little coastal town, mainly to check out te tutrles as this is one of their prime breeding grounds. We set off on ou r guided walk onto Mon Repos beach, straight away we saw a loggerhead tutrle which had just finished laying her eggs. This was really lu...

Well the sun did come out yesterday so we decided that we would hang around for a couple of days. Spent yesterday by the lagoon at Airlie Beach. Was all that we had been waiting for - sun, sea and the pub!!! Watched some of the cricket - get in England anbd drank some more VB's!!! Headed out early this morning on a trip around the Whitsundays. Absolutely gorgeous. First stop was another snorkel on a bit of fringe reef. Second a walk up to a lookout point over...

Well if only the beach did look like that!!! We have now escaped from Mission Beach - four wet days are too much, and have travelled down to Airlie Beach near the Whitsundays. You'll all be pleased to know that Tropical Cyclone Nelson did not manage to get us. Still wet here though so if there aint any improvement we'll have to head south again to try to find the sun, beach and all things good. I have discovered VB beer though - very pleasant indeed and n...

Hi all! Went into Cairns yesterday for a look around - the weather here at the minute is VERY wet which is a bit of a shame but we are hurrying along the coast to find the sunshine! Cairns not much to write home about, we had exhausted the place in 2 hrs....swam etc then headed to MIssion beach today - still raining! torrentially! we aren't going to be able to make it to dunk island unfortunately but are gearing up to go further south tmw!

We've had a great few days in and around the Port Douglas area. On our first full day we visited beautiful Mossman gorge slightly north of the campsite we are staying in. We did some walks through the rainforest and met our first aborigine! There was a massive waterfall and rapids flowing through the middle of the gorge which was amazing. Afterwards we hit the beach in Port Douglas - as it is stinger season we can only swim in designated zones with stinger ne...