We arrived in Fiji on the 7th Dec and so far it's been pretty idyllic, we spent the first 4 nights staying at a hotel in Nadi, which is on the west coast of the island, far away from any soldiers thankfully!! We didn't do much except laze around and sunbathe, a typical holiday for us. It was nice to be in a hotel again after all the hostels we've seen and we made the most of the spa facilities!! From Nadi we ventured out onto one of the islands in th...

We arrived in Port Douglas on Monday after spending the weekend in Cape Tribulation. Cape Trib is in the rainforests north of Cairns and is a really remote wilderness, mainly just trees and beaches, nothing else except a few hostels really. We spent a couple of days there just going for walks and looking for wildlife, most unlike us!! We did manage to see a crocodile, a snake, some spiders, a frill lizard (about 1m in length), a cassowary (big bird similar to an ...

We arrived in Mission on Monday and set up camp for the last time!! It really is a one horse town here, well one street anyway!! It is so quiet, but really nice, the only drawback is you can''t swim in the sea as there are too may jellyfish. We saw three washed up in only 10 mins on the beach!! We're having a nice time just relaxing before we hit the bright lights of Cairns on Thursday.

We came across to Magnetic Island yesterday, it's a little island (20k long) off the coast of Townsville. There is very little to do here other than watersports or walking as 70% of the island is National Park. It's a great place to relax though. We're staying in a hostel as we couldn't bring the van over and it's good to be in a proper bed for a couple of nights. We decided to do xmas presents to each other and took a plane ride over the isla...

We came on the Pacific Sunrise on Wednesday afternoon and every bit of it has been amazing. There are 17 guests on the boat and 4 crew, all are really nice and easy to get along with, which is pretty good as you can't get away from each other except to sleep!!! We've had the most fantastic time sailing around the Whitsundays on this boat, it's an old fashioned wooden sail boat and has been totally restored by Dan the captain. He's done a great job...