I arrived in Darwin feeling a little bit under the weather but only having two days to explore there was no time to feel sorry for myself. I had two choices - to stay in bed all day in a hostel that was more than just a little dark and depressing or get up, go out and sweat the old bugs out of the body...so the sweating option it was and it didn't take long to get started. The humidity up there was incredible, after staggering just a few steps you could alrea...

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 ...

For my second detour of the trip I decided to fly from one side of the country to the other and head from Cairns back to Perth...I really enjoyed the time I spent there before and was disappointed I hadn't had time to explore the south west corner. So when a good friend I'd made over there suggested I come back I jumped at the opportunity to go back and explore some more...After what seemed like a mammoth amount of travelling, 12 hours of flying, we spent...

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'...

After our Whitsundays experience my parents were glad to be back on solid land and had arranged for a day of luxury on Hamilton island before flying up to Cairns the following day. Me, well no such luck, flying - I don't think so - it was another overnight bus for me! But I did go over and spend the day with them on Hamilton island so I could at least pretend I knew what luxury was!We took the ferry over and got our customary daily wetting as we dashed for th...