Hi again, Just spent a fantastic 3 nights in Melbourne staying with Rachel's auntie, uncle and cousins. Tamie (her auntie) picked us up from the airport when we flew in from Cairns and we spent the first evening playing with the kids, Anna and Luke who are both reallly lovely although pretty excitable, but we all got on well and we got definite brownie points for giving many piggie-back rides. The next day Rachel and I took ourselves into the centre of Melbourn...

Hello. This is not what australia looks like at the moment, there are indeed LOADS of kangaroos, sorry, agile wallabies, but there is no sun at all. We've been up tp port douglas and the beaches up there and it looked like it would be really nice were there not thick fog all over it. But we're still having fun and are looking forward to Melbourne tomorrow where we'll stay with rachell's auntie and uncle for 3 nights- can't wait for a proper house! Will keep my ey...

Just spent a great 24 hours on magnetic island, so called beacuse captain cook's compass was going all wrong when he discovered it. It's a small place but you get the feeling that it's tourist industry is sadly expanding rapidly though it's a national park so it shoudl be ok. We stayed in some cool little huts at the YHA and ate the best thai curry I've ever had. We didnt really have enough time and I'd love to go back for longer but we did a small hike over a hi...

So much to write! We've just spent 3 days camping on Fraser island getting around in a crazy 4x4 van, sadly they didnt let me drive cos you have to be 21 but it was probably a good thing cos the blokes in our group seemed to know what they were doing and we didnt flip the car like so many have done before. We spent a lot on time cruising up and downt the 60 mile beach on the island, looking at whales, tiger sharks, dolphins and turtles, and avioliding the tides w...

We've been in Brisbane for the last 3 nights, staying one at a really dirty nasty place where we stayed in a room with lots of snoring japanese men but we moved the next day and have had a nice couple of days looking around brisbane which is a lot quieter than sydney with less to see but still lovely with a cool artificial beach where we went paddling! Only thing to go wrong so far is somerone stealing our milk- how rude! Oh and rachel having no money cos the ATM...