Tom barely slept the first night so he tried a bath mat bought from the towns pound shop, that didn't really help either, the ground is far too hard!We inevitably rose early as you always doing camping, packed everything up and caught the local bus back to town where we needed to catch the coach service to our next destination of Airlie Beach. The journey was about four hours on our super Primer Motor Service coach (we don't like the Greyhound scumbags), for the...

7 NovemberWe checked out of the guest house this morning and headed to the camping shop to try and buy ourselves a tent. We've decided to try camping for a week or so, hoping to save a bit of money and also it will be nice to have a little independence by not being tied down to hostels. We bought a two man tent for £30 and got two small steel pans to complete the kit! Yesterday when we went to the Townsville tourist information and the lady marked the camp site ...

It was a six 6am start this morning as we were leaving Cairns and going to Townsville. We have bought a two month bus ticket which allows us to stop off as many times as we like all the way to Sydney, and today was our first journey. After using buses so often in Asia we had gotten used to our bag being thrown on, everyone piling on the bus, and sitting in dirty uncomfortable seats. So this in comparison seemed like luxury. We were ticked off the drivers list, ev...

Happy bonfire night, not that the Ausie's know........We had a big trip planned for today, snorkelling in the world famous Great Barrier Reef. We had a 40km boat ride which took about two hours unfortunately about an hour in Rachael started to feel ill. She went to sit at the back of the boat and spent the rest of the journey throwing up into a paper bag. By the time we got to the reef Tom was also (along with many others on the boat) feeling worse from the rough...

We arrived in Australia a little earlier than planned but it didn't make much difference to us as we needed to change terminals and fly out of Brisbane to Cairns three hours later. We sat in departures tired out and couldn't afford any food or drink so we just had to hope they'd hand some out on the next flight. We eventually boarded the plane and after a short while the lovely (much nicer than the previous Qantas staff) gave out a few brews and muffins! Rachael ...