hey you guys Today we headed off to Monkey Mia, home of the wild dolphins. We arrived pretty early (8am) and already there were buses lined up with people. We managed to get a really good spot on the beach and the dolphins came up really close. I had had a chat with our new driver, Enzo the previous evening about wanting to feed the dolphins, bless him, he arranged it for me and it was absolutely amazing. Mine decided to roll over on his side and fla...

hiya all We have made it to the outback!! We have gone with a company called outback adventures and paid a little extra to have toilets and showers oh how glad I am about that now... We went to kings canyon, valley of the winds and ayres rock (the photo is us at Ayres Rock just before sunset). The weather was hot hot hot and at least 110 on each day, they decided to do all the walks at about 2.30pm which is smack bang in the middle of the hottest part...

hiya Wow what a day we had today. After recovering fully from the Barrier Reef trip! (see earlier postcard), we decided to have a day at the croc park. Rob has being dying to get up close and personal to the beasts so was delighted to be going. We arrived in time for the morning feed, we saw the salt water crocs and fresh water crocs getting fed and were gob smacked by how sneaky and caniving the salt water onces were, they are so territorial and actu...

hiya We headed to a place called Cape Tribulation today which is north of Port Douglas. We got the ferry over (takes 5 mins) and landed on our own little island. We drove all the way we could in our hire car (the rest of the island further north is 4x4 only) and landed on the most gorgeous beach (see picture to the right) We had a long long stroll on the beach and really chilled and enjoyed ourselves. If we had longer we would have stayed ove...

Hiya We have arrived in Port Douglas and have booked onto our great barrier reef trip. We started off at 8am and headed to the boat for a briefing on safety etc. We headed off and all was well, we arrived at our 1st snorkelling place and got into the sea. We had a yummy snorkel and saw the coral and loadsa fish, someone in the group saw a shark!! We then headed off to the 2nd place, turtle bay. Once in the water it was clear that the water was g...