Cape Trib After mission beach we came back to cairns for one night, went on a pilgrimage to find an open hungry jacks, and then left the next morning for cape tribulation. The tag line for cape tribulationis where the rainforest meets the reef, because its where the daintree rainforest (oldest rainforest in the world) meets with the great barrier reef. The first day there we had a guided tour through the rain forest and up the daintree river to see some wild cro...

Skydiving! We woke up from our first night out in cairns very early as today we were going skydiving at mission beach! It was a seven o'clock start and all three of us woke up petrified about what we were about to do, and the hangovers didn't help! We got to the airstip at about 9 had a bit of a talk on what was going to happen and then waited an agonising 6 hours till 3 when we finaly took up to the skies for our jump. I will never forget marcus's face getting...

WE MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok so after 6 long months of traveling we finaly made it to cairns, the final stop on our Oz experience bus and where we had been aiming for the whole time! Everyone had said when r u coming to cairns n we'd always said yer soon and now we can be the ones that r saying "when r u coming to cairns?" On the journey up from maggie island we stopped off at a crocadile farm where they keep problem crocs and use them to breed crocod...

We left Airlie with a bus driver who had just been robbed while he selpt, at least thats what he told us, but he was supprisingly chilled out about it and made the journey up to magnetic a good laugh. We got to magnetic and checked into base hostel, it was the day after their famous full moon party and so most people were still in bed when we got there dispite the fact it was 4 in the afternoon. We had been a bit gutted that we'd missed out on the party, by one d...

Whitsunday Sailing! We arrived at the marina around 7 not knowing what to expect, every other traveler we had met was going on the clipper, the other boat we had been recomended, so we thought are boat was going to be full of rich old aussies (as our boat was the most expensive.) When we got there we found this was not the case and most of them were around our age, well marcusś age actually (26) and a couple of them were from marcusś home town of lemington spa...