Hello hello hello, It's so hard to resist the temptation to put g'day at the start of all these when you're in australia. Mazza left yesterday, we've had a great time with her and done so much. We had a couple of days dedicated to neighbours (got very drunk at the neighbours trivia night and kissed mazza on the shoulder all the time, was very embarresed), went to the footy (aussie rules) and had a meat pie, had a trip down the great ocean road (have a l...

Well Mazza got here on monday (i think, never quite know what day it is when backpacking), as we have royalty we're staying in a great hostel (with private bathroom, tv, video, free breakfast) and we're loving the luxuary. We've been out and about every day, got around 3 million pictures of the opera house and bridge. we've been round the blue mountains (yesterday), out cuddling koalas and wombats today and off up the sky tower tomorrow (plus a trip tothe o...

Arrived in new south wales yesterday (first stop byron bay ) after a couple of days in Surfers paradise (ok, i know that surfers is in queensland but it's only an hour away so i'm putting it with this postcard, mainly cos i'm a rebel). tried surfing whilst in surfers, they give you a massive foam board so that you can stand up even when not moving (if you're as skillful as me that it), it was pretty good fun and i will definately be doing it again. To celebr...

What a great time.... Not the kind of thing that you assosiate miss "clynique 3 step to beauty" devlin with but amazing. We spent 3 days on a 4 by 4 camping trip (self drive, never seen a car go over a fallen 4 foot wide tree before this, i'm thinking of growing a beard and living in the lake district if it means i can have a land rover, that or becoming a soccer mum). We had a cracking group, two of the lads we knew from whit sundays. We drank and went swi...

What can i say. It was amazing. Just got back from a 3 day tour of the reef (the far north). Managed to fit in 12 dives in that time and it was amazing. We saw so much. the first day was by far the best, firstly we went to cod hole to feed the cod (see pictures), pretty cool however then we dived this place called the lighthouse (a masive monolyth under the sea, they call it a bommie), as we decended (deepest was about 25m) the first thing we saw was a ...