Well we finally made it to our destination just over 5500km later!! Cairns is a pretty small city but there are a lot of people and tourists. our hostel is nice and its absolute luxury to be able to stretch out at night and have a bed! The lagoon is really nice. you can't swim in the sea because of crocodiles and stingers but they have built a free lagoon right next to the beach which isn't heated but is really nice. The temperature here is a lot hotter too and i...

Well Mission Beach rained a lot less than everywhere else! WHite water rafting was excellent, definitely one of my favourite things I;ve done. They put a video on in the coach on the way there and scared everyone but once in teh boat I felt perfectly safe. We we in a boat with a Norwegion family and our guide Julian. Well right near the start they made us get our for a swim and the water was surprisingly warm. Getting ahuled back in the boat was fun. Then we set ...

Oh what a surprise...more rain! Still we had a good day in Townsville, we went to the museum of North Queensland and it was really interesting, the best bit was the stuff about the Pandora ship when it sunk in the Great Barrier Reef. Then we went on a walk up some cliff face that looked like it was out the lion king. It was quite knackering, and the views were good until about 3/4 of the way up when we were in a cloud and couln't see anything. Then we went for a ...

Well we went toRockhampton on the way but there was nothing there so just stopped over for the night. Yesterday we went to the Whitsundays on a tour. Luckily it wasn't raining as it's been hammering down every other night here and there was a massive storm last night! We went to Whitehaven and went on a walk to a lookout where the scenery was excellent and then down onto the Whitehaven Beach where the sea was freezing, we did get to see 2 stingrays though...

Well we started our day early to go to Fraser Island and had the best tour guide ever- Kel. He had endless enthusiasm and wit- 'any tree is a lavactree' being my favourite. Not that I needed to be told!!! First up after we got off the boat we went in the 4x4 to the other side of teh island which was extremely bumpy. We were literally bouncing out of our seats!!! We got to the other side and went to a shipwreck the Mahino. It's been washed up there and there was a...