In a word Australia has been incredible, we ve had the most amazing time. The place really has exceeded our expectations. We originally thought we wouldnt stay for 2 1/2 months but the time has flown by. Theres just so much to see and do. I was reading a Bill Bryson book on Australia where he said the people are outgoing and friendly, the sun always shines and the beer is always served cold. Old Bill has pretty much nailed it at that. The aussi's have bee...

The rafting was amazing, quite scary. The waterfalls were 'lovely', israeli girls lame, but this old fella who was about 90 tried to do a pike pro dive off a rock, baring in mind that everyone was about 20 yrs old and just jumps in normally. He totally mistimed the dive though, and belly floped, it was legendary. I booked up a trip out to the great barrier reef so early next day head out onto the reef with Tusa Dive. An early start. Nicky doesnt come due to the...

We take our final Greyhound trip up to Carins in the pouring rain. We have 2 half price nights at Cains Beach Backpackers (you can not see the beach) but when we arrive Nick dicides that getting on a courtusy bus to the hostel is not 'real' travelling so we proseed to walk for an hour to the hostel in the pouring rain, but he does carry my bag for the last 15 mins. As we were walking to our hostel we passed a sign for mcdonlds that says '4 mins' we knew this...

We travel to Townville and stay at a really nice Base hostel where they have a wide screen tv and bean bags. We get the best Fish and chips and plan a trip to magnetic Island. Next day we have a look around the town before the ferry and the search has ended!!!! In a camera shop Nick finds the much sort after underwater camera case that we have searched 3 countries for. By the time he had bought it we have missed the bus so have to catch a taxi to the port. I am g...

We arrive in a sunny Airlie Beach ready for our sailing trip and met up with some of the guys from our first Fraser Island group. They have just come back from their trip and inform us that there is a cyclone on the way and their skipper had said that sailing out in it would be 'suicide' - with this little piece of news we head to our tour office to see what is going on, where we are informed we will defiantly be sailing. We laze around for the rest of the day an...