G'day folks! We've arrived at Hervey Bay after our 12 hour Greyhound trip (arriving at 6am - we're knackered!). The journey went surprisingly fast and we did get to watch two films: Hideous Kinky (rubbish) and Little Miss Sunshine (excellent) so that killed some time. Hervey Bay isn't much of a picture postcard place to be honest, there's a beach and a strip of shops and cafes but it's nowhere near as pretty as Airlie Beach. It seems like the entire place is onl...

Hello people! We're back on dry land again after an amazing three day sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands! I feel so relaxed now... We set off from Abel Point Marina at Airlie Beach on Tuesday lunch time and boarded the SV Whitehaven with 22 other passengers and three crew members. After settling into the sailing we dropped anchor at Caves Cove at Hook Island where we got to go snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef. It was absolutely beautiful - the reef ...

I think we're gradually getting used to Australia! We left Magnetic Island this morning, getting the ferry to Townsville, before getting on the Greyhound for five hours down to Airlie Beach. Not a lot to report really, I finished my book on the way (Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami if you're at all interested, which is doubtful) and Jim listened to my ipod as his has packed up - gutted! As we travel further down the East Coast we like it here more and more. It ...

We're still on Magnetic Island and, thankfully, we've had a much better day here than yesterday. I had the best night's sleep I've had since the capsule hotel in Tokyo so Jim didn't have to drag a comatosed girl around with him today. This morning we hired bikes so we could see more of the island on our own terms. However, in the space of exactly one minute I managed to fall off mine like a complete idiot (it was too big for me!). But I soldiered on with a blood...

Greetings people! This is a joint blog today, brought to you on behalf of Gemma Samways and James Coxon. After a relaxing, although slightly expensive, sojourn in a hotel in Townsville (where we enjoyed the delights of limitless tea and the film 'Step Up', a searing insight into the power of dance - think Dirty Dancing but from the ghetto), we caught the morning ferry to Magnetic Island. The island itself is very beautiful and we spent a good few hours soaking u...