So....here we are in the Land of the Long White Cloud and already we have done so much in just a week. We weren't ready for sight seeing a city so after landing in Auckland we hired a bright orange people mover car/campervan AKA Major Tom, and headed off exploring the northern peak. The drive was spectacular through rolling green hills and negotiating herds of sheep and cows...very amusingly New Zealand. Our home for 5 days was very comfortable, and even had a dv...

Hmm, we thought we had written this postcard ages ago but as it happens we hadn't. We will do our best to remember what we did all that time ago but we make no guarantees, sorry! Right, yes, um...we left Hervey Bay and headed for Noosa but decided to take a liitle break enroute at a stunning little spot called Rainbow Beach where the bay extends out in the shape of a (unsurpringly) rainbow. Cheryl even spotted a rainbow comming into the town so all was very ...

So...from Airlie beach we hopped on the bus for a short 14 hour journey to Hervey Bay, luckily we were prepared with our sleeping bags, water and very sleepy heads from the night before! On arrival they kindly brought our Fraser Island trip forward by a day, and thank goodness they did because we got to share the experience with the best group. Three days with 7 Irish lovelies and Frank and Becky a cute couple from Watford. Our group was so relaxed about everythi...

okay, so where were we... thats right we were in Cairns recovering from our night out by taking a trip to the rainforest! Not your typical hangover cure but one we definitely recommend especially when you get to see it overhead from a cable car before getting out to examine it close up on foot. You could really see where the cyclone had hit though, lots of naked, broken trees. Sadly that day did not continue to go as planned, Liz got her times mixed up and we mis...

Well...after finally finishing our 3 month stint at work in Sydney(woohoo!), we excitedley headed to the airport to fly to Darwin. We arrived at our hostel at about 2am and were up bright, well maybe not bright, but early at 5.30am to catch our bus for our 4 day outback safari to Cairns. So...day one we set off in our bright orange fun bus. This was a 4 wheel drive with all the mod-cons, including camera on the bonet, dvd and cd player to listen to LOTs of very c...