Wow, Can you believe I took that picture... Airlie Beach is the port for Whitsundays sailing, so came to Airlie, did a bit of shopping and went to sailing on Friday. Bought myself a hat! haha x I am impressed with the whole sea notion. Kinda. Not keen on the sea sickness but everything else was great. You had the spray of sea water on ur face, perfect surroundings, occasionally cat fish coming up your boat feeding on the bread (skipper throws it over) and t...

Magnetic Island is a 20 minute ferry ride from the town of Townsville. I was mildly perplexed that they didn't ask me to drive the ferry.. But anyway, the Island is a quiet one. They didn't have a mall. I stayed at X-Base which is a charming location of huts on the beach. Met a guy called Adam on the ferry. I spent two days there, the first night Adam and I drank by the beach bar- it was happy hour between half 8 and half 9 and we had a few vodka's. The second da...

Hey all, I realised that Cairns came in bits and pieces, so here's the story.. The resort (def more of a resort than a hostel) was a little out of the centre but made up for it in other ways.. it had a pool side bar, bbq area, big screen playing movies every night, a pool- which i went in once on the first night and nearly drowned so didnt dare near again.. a lounge area, and a kitchen. the dorm rooms were fairly basic but its who you with that matters. I mad...

Hey all, I have had a fantastic last few days! The weather's been beautiful- Sun shining, birds singing, mosquitos biting. Saturday 23rd Feb -The day of our Greet Barrier Reef Tour The boys and I got a taxi at 7am to the marina to Ocean Spirit Cruises. The boats are massive, and there was loads of middle aged people milling around our cruise boat- until they all got sent to a different one. So that was the first bonus- there was 18 people on a cruise boat mean...

Hey all, its finally sunny at last! It stopped raining Wednesday and it is now scorching! But still cloudy! The biggest news of the week is that I drove! And not like a bumper car trip or anything like that- a real life proper car on proper roads! Well the story is that the boys wanted to hire a car for the day to drive up to the coastal resort of Port Douglas, 2 are under 21 so couldnt and 2 dont have licenses so I had to do it. It was a Toyota Camry (i think) 2...