Was very excited to get to Cairns for several reasons: everyone has been going on about what a party place the east coast is and I was ready for a piece of the action; was a couple of weeks since I'd done any beaching and yearning for a bit of sand between my toes again; and had mates to meet up who I met on the Ayers Rock trip... bonus! Flying in was awesome - could see the reef snaking off into the distance and all the rainforest and mountains and it looked ...

....Pottering round a rock in the rain Eeeek, after taking about two weeks to get round to writing this one up, I've just spent ages doing just that and have clicked on something and lost it all. This has happened to me so many times, why do I not learn and write it in Word or Notepad first?? Right have about 10 people staring at the back of my head praying for me to get off the computer so will make this very brief. So the train ride down to Alice was fab, gr...

......Downunder mate!Again, apols for the delay with this one, have been marooned in the outback and plauged by slow internet connections so am rather�behind, and such a lot has happened since I last wrote!But first things first -�Darwin -�only a two hour flight from Bali and nearly as hot. It is actually changing from the wet to the dry season up here which is great for me as I had no idea how much the weather can affect visits t...