On Thursday Nikki got up at 530am for a day trip to Moreton island leaving Leanna in bed and set for a day of chilling out in Brisbane. As we'd bypassed Fraser island, the largest sand island in the world, on our rush to get down to Brisbane and out of the floods, the 3rd largest seemed like a good alternative. As its less publicised it turned out to be cheaper and less crowded too. I joined 8 others in a four-wheel drive and we caught a ferry across, relaxing on...

On what was supposed to be our last night in Airlie, the guys from Cairns we'd bumped into earlier, persuaded us to have a few drinks with them before we left. So first we had dinner at a Mexican restaurant and using our girly magic managed to swindle free drinks from the barman and 2 sombreros from the manager! Which we wore for the rest of the night. We met up with the others and moved onto a few bars, by this point in was pouring down with rain and continued t...

We boarded our Oz experience bus in the early ours, our hopes of a few hours sleep cruelly snatched away by the over excited group of 18 year olds that we would encounter all the way down the east coast. We started to feel a bit too old for all this! After organising our own way around SE Asia we found adjusting to a tightly planned schedule and limited bus departures quite difficult and so we spent the morning trying to work out how we'd get to Brisbane by the 1...

When leaving Alice Springs Leanna was randomly selected for a drug test and had her clothes, skin and belonging swabbed, a surprising nervous wait later she was free to go. Stepping off the airplane onto Cairns soil we could instantly feel a difference in heat, Alice had been very dry and dehydrating whereas Cairns is humid and sticky. We took our free transfer to our hostel and spent the evening exploring the town, We noticed how spread out everything is here, t...