Hey all! Hope you are all well and apologies for not getting on here sooner! We have written the blogs for the South and North Island and our road trips around the country but are running out of time to type them before we go Island Hopping in Fiji so will do a very short version now and we'll have to type them up back in the UK at this rate!! South Island - we had 12 days here in our camper van and covered over 3000 miles! Jimmy doing most of the driving but ...

A little story... Whilst on our tour in tropical North Queensland in the Daintree Rainforest, our ever so effervescent and energetic tour guide Peter (who finished every sentence with "no worries" or "too easy" decided to tell us of the dangerous flora and fauna who call the areas around Cape Tribulation home. Apparently in the last year 8 people have become Mr (or Mrs) hungry crocodile's breakfast, lunch or dinner. The locals tend not to h...

We arrived in Cairns on Friday 12th March 2010 at 1pm our last greyhound bus journey of the trip- woo! Arrived at our hotel, not quite as it looked int he borchure!! Chilled out on our first day, having a wander and visiting the lovely man made lagoon swimming area, was pretty hot in Cairns too! We booked a two day and one night trip here to the Daintree and Cape Tribulation, the trip was great, made even better by our tour guide Peter - who had two key catch phr...

We stopped two nights at Mission Beach on the Cassowary Coast in between Townsville and Cairns break up the Greyhound coach journey. It is the name given to an area of 14km of multiple villages along the beach front and though small in size it is the place to do extreme activities in Oz, such as sky diving on the beach, whitewater rafting, kitesurfing etc, but as we plan to do all this in New Zealand we just wanted to chill out. The hostel we stayed in was a rea...

We arrived at Townsville at 2.25pm on Monday 8th March 2010 (not sure where time is going at the moment as seems to be flying!), the town itself is usually just the gateway to Magentic Island by 30 minute ferry but due to tight budget constraints we bucked the trend and decided to stay in Townsville itself for a couple of days to break up the journey and chill out! Jimmy picked a really good hostel here more like a B+B guest house run by a more mature lady called...