We left Sydney and headed west to the famous Blue Mountains. They are stunning. It was a little damp and drizzly on that first afternoon but the views were still fantastic. We drove through places such as; Penrith, Richmond and Lithgow, stopping at view points and lookouts along the way. We then went on to view the Wentworth Falls before realising that it was now getting dark and it ws raining hard so we needed to find somewhere, cheap, to stay. There was not...

To say that the instructions how to use the toll roads in/around Sydney are confusing to the tourist, is to say the least. As we entered Sydney on the main highway via the Sydney tunnel there were many signs saying TOLL ROAD ONLY, NO CASH BOOTHS, ETAG & EPASS ONLY made us wonder what was going to happen to us when we drove through the toll (as we were now stuck on this road and couldn't get off), but nothing happened. We just kept driving through like every...

Ok, so we left Cairns finally! We were still a bit nervous that the floodwaters would still be quite high after watching the news on the morning we left, but all the web reports on the roads said they were open - so off we went with our armbands at the ready. The drive from Cairns to Innisfail was fine, we could see an obvious water line on the banks of the rivers we passed, there was a lot of debris still on the road but nothing to bad. In Innisfail it's self w...

Cairns It was raining when we touched down in Cairns, and it didn't really stop for the whole week and a half that we were there! Anyway, we booked ourselves on to a boat trip the the Great Barrier Reef and hoped for better weather. The weather out at sea on the reef was a lot better than inland but the visibility was still quite poor due to the massive amounts of rain that had fallen over the last week or so. We soon donned our very sexy stinger suits (made us ...

Ayres Rock (Uluru) and Alice Springs When we saddly left Albany we made our way back to Perth to catch our flight the next day, to Ayres Rock. It was Australia Day when we travelled and so when we arrived in Perth early afternoon the city was party central! We thought it rude not to celebrate Australia Day so we made our way down to the waterfron in Perth near to the Bell Tower and Kings Park . There was already lots of other people camped out on the grass w...