Hello! Well, I last left you in Cairns, and we had just arrived, sussing out the place and getting to know the hostel way of life! On Monday (8th March) we did a day trip up to Cape Tribulation...a beautiful area North of Cairns. It is a World Heritage Site and was a brilliant day out for us - exactly what we needed! So we got picked up at 7.25am (gulp!) and took about 2 hours to get to the Daintree River where we went on a crocodile hunting boat trip up the r...

Hello from sunny Cairns! Well what a few days this has been! Absolutely shattered, emotional, excited and nervous all in one really. First, the flights! One piece of advice, NEVER try and do UK to Australia WITHOUT a decent stop-over! So we got to Heathrow T3 on Thursday 6pm, met up and excitedly checked in, pretty shocked by how heavy our bags already were! We said a teary goodbye to the parents, and promised we would take care of each other for the next 12 we...