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...

Hey everyone! I haven't written for a while, so here's a brief run down of things i've been doing. On Monday I left Alice Springs and flew to Cairns, arrived here about 8pm on monday night and the guy on reception mentioned a pub on the corner of the road (literally 50yards away) so me and my 2 new room-mates (Chris and Quentin- he's french and very beautiful) went ofr a beer. It was a nice way to settle in. My hostel is really really lovely, very cosy, clean an...