Morning all! So, this will be my last post from Oz for those of you that are still reading this ... mum. I'm now in Cairns (as you may have cleverly guessed from the cryptic naming of this entry). Cairns is pretty cool, not the biggest of cities, clean but bloody hot!! However, before Alexia and I reached Cairns we visited both Magnetic Island and MIssion Beach, bith of which were really cool. We stayed at the Base backpacker resort on Maggie island, and w...

Pretty fish .... ooh .... ahh. Ahoy! ... Welcome to Airlie Beach, the home of the whitsundays ... and the spelling mistake. After a hasty trip to the jetty aftr my last update i have spent a bit of time sailing on a cateraman (blatant spelling mistake) around the whitsundays, AWESOME! Our first day was spent simply sailing to our resort on the island of South Mole. The resort was immense! There was a golf course, tennis court, basketball court, swimming pool ....

Hello one and all, its been an awesome couple of days since my last update, I’ve managed to refrain from passing out again, which is good news! My toe is still b***** (looks like a cocktail sausage) and with 45 minutes to kill until I set sail on the Whitsunday’s I thought I’d enlighten you on what I’ve been upto.Hervey bay was where I last updated from I believe, and it was from there that Alexia and I met our Fraser Island...

Hey!So, after Brisbane and a ridiculous amount of spelling mistakes in my last post I have stayed in and explored Noosa. I liked Noosa, we got told that there wasn’t too much to see but I enjoyed it and I think Alexia did too (she’s still around, hasn’t run off … yet).Noosa is quite small, fairly quiet but very beautiful. Its slightly more up-market, so naturally we fitted right in, no probs. We stayed at the Koalas resort which was half ...

... So after leaving behind surfers i jumped on the Oz bus heading for Brisbane. But before we got the Brisbane the bus stopped off so we could all have a go at Zorbing. Zorbing is probably best described as a fun human washing machine. Its basically two big inflatable balls, one inside the other. You and the other riders climb into the middle ball, water is added and then your rolled down one big ass hill. Standing up is not really an option, sliding around on y...