Hi everyone After a 46 hour journey we have finally made it home and are enjoying a nice glass of wine and watching Crocodile Dundee :) Hope you've all had great Christmasses and we'll see you soon! In the meantime, here are some amusing holiday stats :) Number of kilometres travelled within Australia: c8,800 Number of journeys taken in: Bus - 34 Plane - 10 Train - 7 Catamaran - 7 Hire cars - 3 Taxi - 3 Ferry - 2 Pontoon - 2 Replica trolley bus ...

Merry Christmas everyone! We've just got back to Sydney after spending Christmas in the beautiful Blue Mountains. We were lucky to get great views on Christmas Eve as some real weather rolled in by lunchtime on Christmas Day and while the mist was impressive, we both now have trenchfoot and water on the lungs. Our battered tent finally gave in and we had to vacate it in the early hours of this morning and squat in the camp kitchen as it had flooded. Gareth took ...

Hi everyone Spent the last few days in Brisbane in a fabulous apartment on the 23rd floor, with a balcony view over the river! It has been really stormy here, in fact the weather across Australia has been pretty apocalyptic. There is a cyclone in Western Australia and bushfires across the Northern Territory and the electrical storms have raged across the whole east coast! On my birthday we had a champagne and Starbucks breakfast and spent the day in a national...

Hi everyone, Yesterday we went on a Whitsunday Islands cruise, the nice people at FantaSea (our new friends in Airlie Beach) picked us up first thing in the morning to take us to the local harbour. From there we boarded our fabulous huge catamaran, for tea and toast and the first leg of our journey - to Hamilton Island. Hamilton Island is populated by Golf Buggies, with a small number of human vistors who are allowed to take them for a ride around the island fo...

Hi everyone Had a fabulous day yesterday. Cruised out through the Whitsunday Islands to the Great Barrier Reef. We went with a company called Fantasea - would highly recommend them! They have 2 permanent pontoons out there that have been there for the last 19 years. They now have coral growing on them and they are no longer allowed to move them as they are protected as part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Conservation Zone! At the pontoon they have a semi subm...