We arrived late in Adelaide from our Red Centre tour and went straight back out to meet the rest of the group in the bar - we had a great bunch of people. We had a really good night and luckily had the next day to recover. Fully recovered we went on a tour to the Barrossa Valley wine tasting. The first winery we visited was Jacobs Creek followed by two smaller ones all before lunch! Jacobs Creek was really good but we saw more of the process involved in making t...

We flew from Cairns to Alice Springs where we picked up for our 6 day tour taking us to the Red Centre and then onto Adelaide. We got picked up at lunchtime ready for our 450km drive to our campsite just outside Kings Canyon. This was our first night sleeping under the stars in swags. After making dinner and having sing songs around the camp fire we settled into them.We were up early the next morning ready for our hike around Kings Canyon. The views across the Ca...

Returning from our dive trip, we spent a couple more days in Cairns. These were spent catching up on sleep and doing washing! It also gave us a chance to meet up with Carol n Ben and to go out with our flatmates Brett and Ruthy. The next day we were up early and got picked up for our tour to Cape Tribulation. The tour started with a walk in the rainforest to Mossman Gorge where we swam in the fresh water...it was sooo cold but got rid of the hangover! Our guide t...

Our final stop on the Greyhound took us to Cairns. We met up with Jo's friend Claire and her boyfriend John at the lagoon and then for a few drinks later on. Our 5 day Open Water dive course started the next day so we wern't out too late but plan to meet again before we move on.The first 2 days of our dive course was made up of theory in the classroom and skills in the pool. We only had 3 people in our class which was good for training, the 3rd person Kat...

Following a s***ty overnight bus journey, we arrived at Airlie Beach early in the morning and got to our equally s***ty hostel the day before we were due to go sailing around the Whitsunday Islands. Airlie Beach was quite quiet although it livened up at night. That evening we met up with Carol and Ben who were on our tour of Fraser Island. We hung out at a couple of bars and caught the end of the cricket. We haven't been hassled by the ozzies since - great re...