We have 6 more days left in Australia and we headed back to Brisbane to relax before setting off on our next chapter of our tour in New Zealand. At the airport we were delighted to be greeted by Bobbi's family friends Karen and Carl who lived in Mooloolaba (an hour outside Brisbane). Little did we know that when we arrived at the house, we recognised two others sitting on the decking enjoying a glass of wine! Bobbi's mum Bren, step dad Barry and little brother Je...

In the Wet Tropics, water falls out of the sky often. Luckily the rivers and streams cascading from the highlands to the coast spill over terrain that creates natural features in the popular forms of the shimmering lakes and cascading waterfalls which are the stand-out attractions of the region. We had chosen to join a Barefoot tour for the day with Ro the fantastic tour guide. Even though the forecast was for rain all day we didn't let it get us down. On the bu...

Our second day on the Great Barrier Reef was with Passions of Paradise where you were able to dive, snorkel and sail. Compared to yesterday the boat was a lot smaller with a third of the people on board. We headed to Paradise reef in the morning which has exclusive mooring just for Passions so there are no crowds as we snorkelled on one of the outer Reefs. With depths of up to 25 metres along the edge, water clarity is good and the area is host to many exciting f...

Whilst in Cairns I could not miss the opportunity to do some diving in the Great Barrier Reef. When we were in Byron Bay we booked a two day tour which included yesterday's Rainforest tour and today's diving with Down under cruise and dive. When I first saw the size of the boat I was a little concerned. I had never dived off a boat that big and with that amount of people. When they split us into groups and there were only 8 certified divers out of the 180 on the ...

Cape Tribulation is located in the heart of the Daintree National Park World Heritage Area which contains the oldest continually surviving tropical rainforests in the world. Estimated to be over 100 million years old, the Wet Tropics area is home to around 50% of Australia's plant and animal species with many species found nowhere else in the world. We started our first of four day tours with Adventure Tour Company at 7am with a drive along one of the renowned s...