I arrived in Sydney on Friday afternoon. Scott was very kindly letting me stay with him in Balmain again, and he even came to pick me up from the aiport! Such a nice change to negotiating public transport. I went out for dinner with him and Mary-Beth that evening in Balmain. The following day Azza arrived from Brisbane for our last few days together in Australia. I had found her a nice hostel to stay in in Glebe, thankfully replacing the terrible impression of h...

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...

What a fantastic 2 weeks! Olly arrived on Sunday morning, tired and very hungry (guess who forgot to order a vegetarian meal for the plane...) but luckily we had been on a pie mission the day before to the Mornington Peninsula so he didn't starve.. Olly and I spent the first few days Melbourne. We discovered a fantastic record shop which stocked every brilliant band we could think of, including the obscurest of the obscure (plus a heap we'd never heard of) and w...

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...