22/9/06 - Shelley picked me up in Brisbane, it was sooooo good to see her. We went straight to a wine bar and had a glass of wine, it was lovely, all open air onto the street. We then went to find some cake info. for her wedding. Shelley had managed to get the afternoon off work, yippee! Got home later on and had some more wine, then we went and got a Thai takeaway just down the road. Met Simon when he got home from work, typical Aussie bloke, but a very nic...

3/9/06 - Quite a few of us got the same flight out to Cairns today. I phoned for a pick up at the airport and then low and behold Cecilia and Claudia (sisters from Argentina) got on minibus too, we hadn't talked about it and here we were going to same accommodation! All of us on the flight had agreed to meet in town later for dinner, so the 3 of us walked in together along the seafront. Dinner was lovely at the Chapel Cafe and we got the courtesy bus back to ...

31/8/06 - Got picked up at 6.25am, after I had eaten my free breakfast! Our tour guide/driver was Karl and he turned out to be a very nice bloke, very knowledgeable and gentle. It was a long journey to Yulara we stopped off a few times, including a camel farm and at a place called Mount Ebenezer, where I bought some Aboriginal Artwork. We arrived at our campsite (there were enough tents for me to have one to myself, yippee!) and after preparing, eating and cl...

17/8/06 - Had a good nights sleep and got up at 10am. It felt strange to be finally here and I was so looking forward to seeing Avril. So got up, wandered into the kitchen and there she was, looking just the same, we had a hug, then she kindly made me a lovely cup of tea and I had some breakfast whilst we chatted. Got dressed and met her friend Heather and the 3 of us went and had coffee and potato wedges at The Boat by the harbour, lovely. Then did a bit of...

28/7/06 - Got up, had a nice breakfast, we sat outside looking across the beach to the sea, lovely! After breakfast we walked to Underwater World. It was great, saw lots of marine life, the penguins were the best, sooo funny! On the way back to the resort we stopped at Lucky restaurant, which is actually next door to the resort, for lunch. Nikki was not impressed at all! She ordered vegetable fried rice (she does not eat meat or fish) and she found chicken ...