Hello from Hervey Bay! it's been a weird few days but highly enjoyable. I never thought i'd have to add another species to my list of animals to be wary of, but to crocs, spiders, snakes, man-eating sharks I now have to add magpies. Yep that's right, the common magpie. Walking down the road on sunday morning to meet jetteke at the internet cafe, something swooped at my head and made this horrible squarking sound. I turned around to see a magpie making another f...

Ok, as usual I ha so much to tell you all! So on Wednesday, as I said, Jetteke and I headed to Eungella NAtional PArk (pronounced yung-ella) from Mackay. Our first stop was at a gorge called FInch Hatton Gorge, which was wonderful, the water was clear and pure, a little cold! But lovely, then we headed further into the park to see some platypuses. We saw one, he was so cute! A lot smaller than I expected, around 40cm maybe, and he was swimming around diving down ...

Ok, I have to be quick with this one because I only have about 15 minutes to tell you what I've been doing. When I get a chance next i'll go back and edit it all. So, on in Airlie Beach, the Whitsundays are just around the corner, so to speak. But Jetteke and I were feeling a bit like we were being forced to sail around the Whitsundays. Being told by everyone that we must sail around them, made me not want to, I knew they would be worth a look at, but I didn't ...

Right then, the barrier reef. Maybe not the best idea to be reading this while eating your dinner, you'll find out why now! So yesterday, armed with hard-core travel sickness pills, ginger tablets, ginger biscuits and ginger ale to combat motion sickness I got onto a lovely boat with a company called Reef Experience. There are loads in Cairns, offering different things, and there are loads of good ones, but I can especially recommend this one. So, I smuggly thou...

Hey everyone! Glad to see you're all still reading this and enjoying my tales. Where i've spent the last 4 nights has had rubbish internet access so i'd better get goin and fill you all in now! Ok well on thursday I was picked up and driven to Port Douglas- about an hour from Cairns, it's further north and gets tropical. Port Douglas is a proper millionaires town- Bill Clinton hangs out here sometimes apparently. It's a beautiful, incredibly safe, small town w...