Well Fraser Island was absolutely amazing! I arrived in Rainbow Beach, a small town a few hours north of Brisbane, on Thursday afternoon. There was a meeting at the hostel for everyone going to Fraser. Telling us all about the 4x4's we would be going in, the dingo's (dangerous wild dogs who live there), the dangerous sea we cant swim in (loads of sharks, deadly jelly fish, and strong currents) and lots of other stuff, started to wonder why I was going a...

OK well I have now left Sydney and am working my way up the East Coast of Australia.The last couple of weeks in the city were mainly about working and saving. I did go to Sydney's Gay Mardi Gras. Which was really cool. I met Jayne and Laura from work and somehow, amongst the huge crowds, they had managed to find a really good spot right at the front. There were cool costumes - lots of glitter, wonderfully tacky and over-the-top drag queens, trannies, nudists ...

Oh my god I know, I know, its been absolutely ages since I wrote, oops sorry! Not really sure where to start... I guess at the beginning. Well we arrived in Sydney, via the overnight coach, sometime in the week before Xmas. We stayed in a hostel right in the city centre for 2 weeks. Its a cool city, lots going on - not as laid-back as Melbourne and much more tourists (it sometimes seems as there are no Australians in Sydney). The first week we saw a few sight...

I arrived in Melbourne two weeks ago totally knackered and pretty bewildered. It was strange to arrive somewhere hot and busy after cold and deserted New Zealand.I met up with Nikki again, who had already been here a week. Was kind of weird but not. Mostly it was just odd to meet in a strange city the other side of the world. We've been staying with some friends of Barbara and Judy (from San Fran); Maria and Peter. They are really sweet and have a lovely hous...

I'm now in lovely Melbourne, Australia but firstly I must write about the rest of my action-packed time in New Zealand!So, from Lake Taupo we went to River Valley which is out in the middle of nowhere. We stayed in a nice wooden hostel right at the bottom of the valley by the stream and a waterfall. Us four girls tried a yoga class there, which was the perfect setting for it, it wasn't a very strenuous class actually I think all of us managed to fall asle...