Got the new car, a Hyundai Getz early in the morning and off we headed North towards the Wet Tropics of Queenslands far North. On the way up we stopped off at a place called Hartleys Crocodile Adventures for a Squizz (Aussie word for Gawk). It is a bit Reptile zoo/farm and they do shows and things so we actually spent the day there. The first thing we did was a Cruise around their man made Lagoon, which took them 8 years to construct. They have loads of crocs in ...

So, what a day.... White water rafting, grade four, through cyclone ravaged crocodile infested waters near Cairns. The day started at 6am, ouch. Got the bus at half six and headed off for the two hour drive to the river, the river Tully. On the way we went through the parts of Queensland that got hit the worst with the Cyclone (which incidently was worse than Hurricane Catriona apparently.. maybe Katrina???). We saw lots of pretty devasted forrest and jungle and ...

So we got to Cairns on Tuesday night, it was dark and very very very hot. It gets dark at about seven up here, they dont have daylight savings either. It rains a lot up here at this time of the year, but the driver of the car taking us to town tells us it rains a bit during the day and mostly just in the evening. He was wrong. It rained a lot the first few days here and on Saturday just gone it cleared up mostly and we have had fine weather since. This is all tha...