It is fantastic to be back in the Sunshine State! Northern Queensland is possibly the most beautiful place I've been to in Australia, and it certainly has the best climate at this time of year. It has been a consistent 27 degress with clear blue skies and very little humidity. Perfect. I landed in Cairns on Monday afternoon and caught a bus straight up to Port Douglas. I spent the afternoon wandering the pretty little town and the beautiful 4-mile-beach. The nex...

Apologies for the long long gap in blogs... I am back in civilization and have a chance to sort through all my photos and get back on track. I left Childers on Tuesday morning (at 4am!) and headed to Brisbane where I had a couple of days with Azza. Yesterday I flew to Melbourne, back to Vicky and Grant's wonderful flat where I have been relishing sitting on a sofa, sleeping in a room by myself and using a kitchen and bathroom that hasn't been used by 100 other pe...

Hi everyone, Well I can hardly believe I've been in Childers for 2 weeks already! I had a bit of a bumpy start to my harvesting up here in Queensland, but I have finally got a steady job so things are looking up. I am staying in a working caravan park in a little one-road town called Childers. It is about 250km north of Brisbane and near the more famous tourist destination of Fraser Island. There are around 100 other backpackers staying in the park, most of them...

The Whitsunday Islands are one of Australia's most popular destinations and it's easy to see why. Azza and I spent 3 days in Airlie Beach, taking a cruise to explore some of the islands. Airlie Beach itself is a tiny strip of hostels, bars and restaurants used purely as a jumping off point for the islands. It was a bit too much of a backpacker circus for me but we still managed to have a lot of fun. The highlight, of course, was the cruise around the islands. W...

Azza and I arrived in Brisbane on Thursday night, exhausted after our flight which took us via Sydney. We spent the next day trying to sort out our washing and other such exciting activities, before heading to the Gold Coast on Saturday morning. Azza had got us tickets to a festival called Good Vibes which she'd been to last year. We caught the train to Surfers Paradise, checked into our hotel (HOTEL!!! So nice!!! Somehow hostels can never match up...) and met up...