Hi there everybody. Apologies for my complete tardiness in updating my journal. Since I last wrote, we spent 6 weeks living back in Sydney, working. Now I use the term 'work' rather loosely. I got my old job back at the pub - boss must have liked me ;-) and spent much of my time supping tea and eating chocolate. Happy Days. I was treated to an amazing weekend at the Hunter Valley Wine region, stopping in top class accommodation, eating the best food and general...

Latest big adventure was Fraser Island. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world - you are put in groups, sent out to do your food shopping, given a 4x4 and sent off to roam around the island for three days. Aside from sand getting everywhere, it was actually a thoroughly good experience. And experience it was. I had to sleep in a tent for starters. There were no toilets at the campsite and the place was full of dingos. We had a pretty decent grou...

After a hectic time in Cairns, we moved onto Airlie Beach where we embarked on a two night sailing trip of the Whitsunday Islands.Not knowing a great deal about the catamaran we were booked onto, we turned up and discovered it was infact the booze cruise out of all of the boats, so we promptly bought more alcohol and got onboard.After a choppy first day, the boat was anchored and we enjoyed a fish supper, all very civilised. Then it turned into a bit of an 18-30s...

Just when I think life really can't get any better, we only go and rock up at the site where Peter Andre filmed Mysterious Girl! The Aussies apologised and found it all quite embarrassing, however, we'd already whipped off our clothes and started splashing around in the waterfall and singing all the lyrics, ah, took us right back to 1996!So Cairns has been very busy. We went on a tour of the Atherton Table lands where we spent the most fun day of our live...

Now, I don't like camping. Camping in slight drizzle I can almost cope with. Camping in torrential rain in the middle of the desert in a supposed drought, does not make for a happy Smith. It could only happen to us. Our three day camping trip to see Uluru (Ayers Rock) and surrounding area was somewhat marred by the tail end of a monsoon. Still, in the style of the trip thus far, we had a thoroughly good time! Before we hit Ayers Rock, we had a ride on a cam...