Hi all, Just a quick update as we have to check out of our room very soon.  Its been a crazy few days.  Monday we went sea kayaking which was good but scary.  My arms are still in recovery!  It was all good until we turned the corner past this island and then it got really choppy.  I thought trisha and i were going to capsize.  Our pretty but pretty useless guide (or sea monkey as I liked to call him) kept deserting us.  In the end up we had...

hi all!!Pics to follow as computers are even worse in cape tribulation!? Camera number 5 is playing up big style!? It keeps taking fuzzy pictures,?jamming with the lens out and other very annoying behaviour! It makes me mad!!? Hopefully it will settle down or stay bearable until I can get to perth, earn some cash and buy a new one (camera 6)!! OLYMPUS are crap!  Mum, in the pile of stuff I gave to you take home to U.K - was there a reciept for a camera??Anyw...

hi all, cant upload photos as again, I am having internet issues!  Arrived in cairns yesterday afternoon and me and the girls just went for a walk about the lagoon.  Last night we went for tea at an irish bar as we had free voucher,  then we sat down at the lagoon.  We were supposed to go out but fell asleep reading our books! Getting through 1 large book a day - thank god for hostel book exchange! Today im just going to chill out at the lagoon as t...

hi all, Still in mission beach!  yesterday me, nicole and trisha (the girls i met the other day)went to the beach (over-rated) and nearly got flattened by lots of skydivers landing on the beach!!  We decided to head back to the hostel pool to hang out which was probably wise.  Didn't like all the beasts that were attacking me though - lots more beasts up in this region. Last night we went out with the rest of the hostel to the 'local'.  It was full ...

hi all, I'm having to write this a second time as the computers in my hostel crashed. I wrote the whole thing and it dissapeared! That is one of my biggest complaints about the east coast - the computers are crap, the connection is much slower and generally much more expensive. I simply have no patience with slow internet, grrr! Another annoyance is crap hostels that are just there to wrip backpackers off! The hostel i was in last night was bad! The 'e...