Oh my, what a lot we have done since the last blog. There is no way I will bore you with every place and detail but we have now reached the 'wet tropics', although there is no rain at this time of year! Signs everywhere warn of crocodiles and not to swim, although we have yet to see one. I have seen a shark swimming by though!! You are also warned about marine stingers, or jellyfish, but the season usually starts around October/November. However, we were made to ...

Driving up through the North East side of the Australian landmass you will either see fields and fields of cattle or fields and fields of sugar cane. Being quite partial to the end products of both, I thought to delve a little deeper into the sugar cane and came to the satisfactory conclusion that we all need to drink more rum! Picture 1 shows it's all about tasting the end products from the mill! Why? Rum is one of the many products that come from the incred...

Well, this part of Oz is definitely sugar cane country. Since taking the Bundaberg Distillery tour we have just seen fields and fields of cane growing, and seen cane train after cane train. In Sarina we also did a tour showing us the whole process from harvest to sugar, or rum!! It's such a big part of life here, and so interesting, that Bob is going to do a separate blog on it. We decided to head inland for a day to get a change of scenery, and headed for Eunge...

Where to begin?! Firstly we celebrated Winnie's electrical problem being solved by biking to the local Hotel to watch the State of Origin decider (a bit like the Ashes only interstate Rugby League!). We have no lights on our bikes so to do this we had 2 LED lanterns hanging from our handlebars - hmmm, but we were only on cycle paths, well, for most of the way! We then headed up the coast, stopping to see the Captain Cook Memorial Cairn at 1770, so named 'cos that...

Just over a week ago we left the safety of Bill's house and embarked on our first big trip to Cairns and back - a mere 3,500km, or more if we come back inland! So far we have visited Maleny and the Glasshouse Mountains, seen a platypus and a pademelon (a small red legged wallaby) and a roost of flying foxes. We've wine-tasted, met someone from Jersey, been up and down some STEEP hills (I was worried Winnie wouldn't make it but she coped better than I did!), staye...