17th - 21st June Bangkok YEAH I KNOW spelt wrong on title WOW!!What a place first impression is oh my stinking hot city full of fumes and crowds how wrong can you be.. Yes it is! BUT much more than that we had an amazing full on 4 days. We stayed in a small hotel nice to get away from the backpackers for a while. We visited the Grand History Museum on first day. Its great how the Tai people have respected and looked after their world. The museum is so large to...

June Well what can I say this time!! We are having a lovely stay on the west coast, for me this is ten times better than the east coast rugged coast line. mediteraen climate. We have met up with friends from the UK John & Elaine who are migrating out to Brisabane for their retirement. (good luck to you both) We are currently staying with friends from the UK. Jean and Peter. See photo. Last week we travelled down to the southwest corner. Albany first stop, love...

We leave Cairns and fly onto Uluru ( Ayres Rock) hopefully find some sun here in the desert. As we fly into the middle of this coutry there is nothing below us apart from desert we fly for 2.5hrs eventually you can see Uluru looming up from the skyline got a lovely picture (see photos) As we arrive we jump into hire car and straight off to National Park, This wonder of the world can be seen from almost anywhere. We have just enough time to walk the base 9.4km bef...

18th- 21st May Cape Tribulation Straight after Liveaboard we head north to Cook Town. We stop one night in Port Douglas and then onto Cape Tribulation That's as far as we go!! NO 4WD then no go. The seal Roads turn into sand and mud with big creek crossing so we stopped, did some walking in the Rainforest around the Cape Trib Daintree World heritage forest. unique because the forest reaches the sea. and the enviromental guys will have you believe it is related ...

12th - 16th May Barrier Reef. WOW needn't say more than that really, I am not going to describe every dive, you would be more than board by the time I had finished. Even you divers who are reading this... The Dive Boat was very well organised with enough space for us all to kit up on deck at the same time and relax on the sun deck or in the lounge. The food was excellent 3 cooked meals a day with nibbles out all day. So NO reason to go hungry Diving Makes you ...