AIRLIE BEACH TO FRASER ISLAND - WHIPS, LASSOES, SNAKES AND DINGOES... I left the Whitsunday Islands behind and headed south in a general direction down the Queensland coast. My tour took me inland, some 200km to a cattle station in the middle of nowhere. To give you an idea of the remoteness of the area it was in - a plane crashed in 1945 in the hills surrounding the cattle station and remained undiscovered until 1993. Sadly, there were no survivors. Plenty ...

I write this blog as I'm about to leave Cairns, on the North East coast of Oz. Well actually, I left there a few days ago now, but here goes...I flew up from Melbourne and arrived late at night to a torrential rain storm. Then I realised it's in a tropical climate and it's the wet season at the moment! Greg's girlfriend Leyen had some time off, so joined me in Cairns which was fun. We booked a 3 dive scuba on the Great Barrier Reef and headed out on the first ...