DAY ONE After an amazing night sleeping in a bed again, the alarm goes off at 5.20am(!!!) for the next trip. The hostel provides free breakfast from 5-9am. There's bread, tea and coffee, but I'm still in the 'one eye open' phase so I sit and wait on the pick up. We get picked up by our guide GeaJay at 5.50am and a group of 22 board the little bus. At present I'm not feeling it due to looking like I've done 22 rounds with Tyson (mosquito bitten face and eye aaaa...

So last night was an experience. And a challenge. As I am writing this I know it's not going to sound like a big deal but imagine sleeping inside a barn, with your sleeping bag zipped up, right over your head; you're sweating (it's bloody roasting), all you can hear are Mosquitos and crickets flying around and landing on you; due to all this you cannot sleep and then someone starts screaming and shouting in another language.... So you don't know if they are just ...

We set off after breakfast at 7am. These two days were going to be spent mostly driving with pit stops.. We stopped at the Mataranka thermal pools. This was a man made swimming hole designed for soldiers but then opened to the public in the 1970s. It was beautiful, the pools were surrounded by rainforest with big massive palm trees. Again due to the rainfall, the water level was way higher than it normally was. There were tonnes of spiders and massive webs all a...

Off I go again, 6.30am pick up outside Melaleuca to head on the 3 day trip down to Alice Springs. I booked my trips through Charlie at Backpackers World Travel who gave me 3 options: get a Greyhound Bus straight down to Alice Springs; for an extra $50-70 I could get a bus that stopped at Katherine Gorge and Daly Waters for a little break; or, for another extra $50-60 on top of that, do a 3 day trip with Way Outback stopping at Katherine Gorge, Mataranka Thermal ...

I feel so lost after doing the East Coast. Everythings been chaotic and now it's time to start worrying about cash and what the next step is. Off i went to Darwin, got a flight on the 6th of February. It was good to catch up with Scott again. First thing he done was show me around but... That did end in tours of the pubs haha. When I checked into Melaleuca hostel, (where Scott was staying) I didn't think much of the rooms. When I came out the lift, I realised I...