I love Sydney!!! Well as you can guess we are having a fantastic time in Sydney. We have all just fallen in love with the place. Especially the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. It felt so surreal to see them for the first time. Just after we'd met Jen on the first day we got on a ferry into the City Centre which sailed right past the Opera House. It was amazing! We have now taken this ferry about 10 times and I think I've just got used to it (although I still...

Hello! Just a quick update from Sydney. We arrived in Sydney Tuesday nights after flying down from Cairns. It was so lovely to be on such a short flight. I think I could manage anything now after the mammoth trip from England to Aus. We got up bright and early Wednesday morning to go and meet Jen at the airport. We were so excited when we all met. It seemed so weird to see her even though its only been 3 weeks. We're just not used to seeing anyone we know anym...

Hello! We went on the Greyhound bus for the last time on Saturday (yay!!) as we travelled from Mission Beach up to Cairns which is as far North as we are going. After not being particularly excited about Cairns I have been nicely suprised. Its a really nice city and we've had a fantastic time, with a few scary moments which ill tell you about in a bit! As we've not had too much to sort out here its felt more relaxed, like we're properly on holiday and its reall...

Hello! We travelled 8 hours on the bus up from Airlie Beach on Thursday to arrive in Mission Beach which is just two hours south of Cairns. We have just come up here for 2 nights as we wanted to visit Dunk island which we went to today. Its a fairly small Island just off Mission Beach. I hadn't heard about it before I came to Australia but we got a tip off from some girls we met on Fraser Island and Im so glad we did. It is a really beautiful, tranquil island. ...

Hello! We have just arrived back into Airle Beach after a fun filled,two day sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands. It is very nice to be back on dry land and not fall over whilst walking! The trip was fantastic though. We sailed in a Maxi racing yacht so we soon realised we couldn't just sit, read and sunbathe for two days. We did quite a bit of proper sailing where the boat was virtually tipped up on its side against the wind. After not daring to move at...