Well unfortunately my time in Perth is drawing to a close. I have just over 1 week left here before I head on to continue my Australian Adventure.Cannot actually believe how quickly the time has passed. Amazingly I arrived over 10 weeks ago now, but it seems like yesterday! I have loved living with Geoff + Mel in Morley and we've had lots of fun together, from making pizza, to throwing bbq's, going to the beach and having marathon DVD rentals from Blockbu...

Once I finished up at my job in Perth, I decided to use the time off productively and head off down south to see a bit of this corner of the country.I hired a car for 5 days and set off on Wednesday 11 October. It was a very pleasant drive south (apart from some initial very heavy rain which made driving on the freeway a bit hazardous!) and apart from a wrong turn in Rockingham, I eventually found my way out and continued south to Bunbury.  I stopped here an...

Had an amazing time in Cairns and managed to pack a lot into my week there. On the way up from Mission Beach I got talking to a canadian girl on the bus - Michelle. She was telling me she'd just bought an old Ford Falcon stationwagon, which she was going to drive to Melbourne in in a little over a month's time. Anyway, she was saying that she was off to spend the day driving around the Atherton Tablelands on the Saturday and invited me to join her. So she...

Arriving in Mission Beach, I was collected by my hostel's - The Beach Shak - nice driver Andy, an English guy who said he loved Mission Beach so much he'd been here for a month now! Working at the hostel, he got free digs and $200 - not bad really, considering there is absolutely nothing and I mean nothing, to spend your money on here! There are about 2 shops and a café and that's it. Needless to say, I decided to do my one free night here and then head to ...

I'd already told myself that my couple of days on Magnetic Island I would be doing very little and just using the time as a complete recovery period to get over the craziness of the past 5 days in the Whitsundays. It would be an opportunity to completely detox of alcohol and catch up on the sleep I so desperately craved. The bus pulled up at the ferry terminal in Townsville and I bought my return ticket to the island and hopped straight on. After a 25 minute...