Been in Cairns for a few days now. Decided that we needed some serious R&R before heading to NZ - so alas we didn't make it to Airlie Beach or the Whitsundays. We were hoping to do a spot of snorkelling on the Reef and see some gorgeous beaches here - but shock horror! the weather is pretty bad up here. Windy May by all accounts - and we were told that it's crap conditions for snorkellers - no visibility and very choppy on the water. A girl at the hostel told us ...

Hello all, So - after about a squillion hours on a coach over the last few days - we're finally back on the coast in Townsville. Blimey - that was hard work. The scenery was pretty amazing though - so I'm glad that we went inland. Red mud, so much green and endless skies. We saw the most amazing sunrises and sunsets. Would have been much better with our own transport mind you - but as we pretty much had the coaches to ourselves - we could stretch out and mak...

We have finally left the comfort of Brisbane - and we're now inland - in Outback Australia. We passed very quickly through Toowoomba - and questioned why we had decided to do the leg from Bris to Cairns this way. But - we decided to carry on and hoped that things would get better. An 9 hr coach journey and we arrived in Charleville last night - scenery was pretty amazing on the way - saw lots and lots of raod kill mind you. Poor little wallabies. We did see a few...

Back in Bris for a few days to re charge and unwind. Goodness..Darwin is a pretty awful place. Full full full of nasty bugs and so hot and humid - it's also really sad to see all the homeless on the streets. We were pretty gald to get out - and head back to Queensland. I did have one rather interesting / awful experience the last night in Darwin. We headed to a backpackers bar to have some food and meet up with everyone we'd done the Kakadu trip with. They were g...

After leaving Brisbane we had a 7 hour bus trip to Hervey Bay in order to take part in a 4WD Safari trip to Fraser Island(another part of Maxine's prize!!). We rocked into the Hervey Bay hostel at about 9.30, not the greatest hostel in the world but we were only there for one evening before leaving for Fraser Island the next morning. A SERIOUSLY rude awakening on that morning as Maxine came flying back into our room at 6am to inform me that we had about 10 minu...