On our last weekend at Michelle's before picking up our camper and driving to Sydney, we visited the wreck site of a Liberator Bomber Beautiful Betsy. Basically just to sum up, an ex forces plane carrying 6 RAF officers went missing in 1945; they were flying from Darwin to Brisbane on-route to one of the officers' wedding. 49 years later the wreckage of this plane was found by a park ranger, before this, despite several searches the plane and crew were ne...

So Chris met his rellies Adrian and Bec for the first time following a 30 minute drive from Port Douglas, and we arrive at Wonga Beach! We’re told to let ourselves in as they’re both still en route from work. Nobody locks anything up in this country; luckily as we creep in we notice pictures of Great Aunty Mary on top of the fridge so we knew we had the right house! Adrian and Bec live 100 metres from the one and only local watering hole called the Pa...

It’s been a little while hasn’t it!!! So let’s get on it…..Straight after new year we were on our little road trip, we clocked up a tidy 3,500 km in just over 2 weeks, how hardcore are we?? First stop Airlee Beach, the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands; when you imagine backpackers, everyone automatically thinks lazy ex student bums hanging around drinking, partying and generally doing nothing, well Airlee is the queen of all travelling d...

So Christmas and New year were a bit different for us this year, even Christmas eve was different, none of this going out to Fareham till 3am and stumbling in after a kebab to rip open the presents…oh no!!!! When we asked Michelle what they do for Christmas eve she said, we have a family dinner, drink eggnog and get an early night????? We were a bit shocked, but it turned out to be a great night in the end, as we used it as an opportunity to phone home.Dur...

How time flies…here we are in 2007, who would a thought such crazy things! We’ve just checked the site and there doesn’t seem to be a journal since the 17th December, we did do one for our Fraser Island trip, but I think somewhere along the way it’s been deleted!!! So just before Christmas we visited the beautiful Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world - as you can see from the pictures it was an amazing place, and it was...