Arriving back in Cairns after another 12 hour marathon journey from one side of the country to the other I spent a couple of days just sorting a few things out and catching up on sleep!Then I hit the activity list again and went out to the Great Barrier reef for the day. I decided to pay a bit more to avoid the crowds and go to the outer reef where the coral is reportedly much better and much less visited. And how right the advice was. We snorkelled at two spots ...

Thankfully this overnight bus was rather less eventful than the last and I managed to sleep across my two seats in short bursts throughout the night. As I awoke and brushed the sleep from my eyes I pulled back the curtain and was greeted by 6 or 7 kangaroos in the field outside, not a bad way to wake up!I had a few hours to pass before my parent's flight landed so I had some breakfast looking out over the lagoon and made the most of the fact that it wasn'...