Ok so we're still in Cairns at the moment, Kat, a friend we've been travelling for aaaagggees with now left us a couple of days ago and has gone to Singapore. Had a great last night out with her though! We went to a place called the Woolshed (which I keep accidently calling the Woolpack) for a $10 meal which was really nice, and included a free drink! Bonus!! It was hoola that night so we all took a flowery neckalce. After a while of drinking there we headed...

ok here goes with another blog... we checked out of scottys hostel on the 9th june and moved up north to cairns. cairns is beautiful, the weather was really nice so we chilled out by the lagoon mainly and walked around all the awesome shops.... theres a shop called "the british lolly shop" which sells just english sweets and stuff it was weird going in there and seeing normal food. On the 12th June me gem and 3 others that we're travelling with hired...

Ok so what happened last time I wrote one of these, spending like half an hour doing it, it decided not to save and the whole thing was lost. I was way too angry to write another one any time soon but I have finally recovered from that travesty and am prepared to write another! (fingers crossed it works) We spent a week on Magnetic Island, as you already know we spent our first few days in a hostel called Base, we then moved onto a different hostel on the ot...

Gem's birthday - 22nd May 2007 ... brilliant day! Gem woke us all up saying (or should i say shouting) its my biiiiirthday! (she was very excited haha) whilst she was on the phone outside we put happy birhtday banners on her bed and she opened her presents etc.  We then went down the road and hired out 2 mokes. Mokes are basically colourful 4 seater golf buggies that you're allowed to take on the road and they go 80kmph max.  There was 8 of us altogether, ...

Just finished our sailing trip round the Whitsunday Islands.  Both had an amazing time!  On the first day we were meeting at 9am, so we put all our luggage into storage and did about a 10 minute walk to the marina.  There were met everyone including our dive instructor Christian aka Odie.  He came round us all took details etc and asked us if we'd be interested in doing a dive.  It was at this point that Pam was told she wouldn't be able to do one ...