So we arrived in Townsville after a crazily long journey through the Atherton Tablelands. We ended up arriving there at about 8pm which is way later than we expected to (didn't really plan that drive very well) and unfortunately had to spend an hour just driving around in the dark looking for somewhere to park the van for the night. It seems that the Australians don't mind too much if you park just anywhere, but if you are parked somewhere 'illegal', all the poli...

(Written by Holly) Hello everyone! We are so sorry it's taken ages to update this blog - we just haven't had much time on the computer recently. We're a bit behind with the blogs but will cast our minds back to last week and try and update you on what we were up to. I think we finished the last blog in Cairns after we had driven north for a few days. After going back to Cairns overnight we drove back to the little town of 'Moreeba'. This is the town that freake...

When we left Port Douglas, it was raining again (surprise, surprise) but we kept optimistic and ploughed through. We headed north up to Cape Tribulation and were really excited to get some good shots of the coastline. Cape Tribulation is where 'the rainforest meets the sea' and was rumored to look like something out of Jurassic Park so we went straight there! We had to cross a small river on an expensive cable ferry. The river was apparently full of crocodiles bu...

Hello everyone! We finally have some time to update our blogs so will do a speedy update so that you know what we've been up to over the last few days! We arrived in Cairns on Saturday (9th) after a 3 hour flight from the Gold Coast. It was a really fast flight and as we landed in Cairns we got a beautiful view of the Barrier Reef from the plane. We now no longer need to pay loads of money for a helicopter ride over the reef - we saw so much and it was just so b...

Hello from down under! Well we arrived here last Sunday after a really long flight from Thailand. As you know, we had been staying at the Marriott in Phuket the week before our flight was due to leave Thailand for Australia. We flew with JetStar which were very cheap and it was okay - we had a bit of frustration at the airport as they wouldn't let us bring closed and sealed bottled water on to the plane that we had bought in the departure lounge. Very annoying a...