I have just started my bus tour around the main island of Fiji, Viti Levu. I arrived in Fiji on Saturday night and so far am loving it; on Sunday I visited two tiny islands, South Sea Island and Bounty Island, which were like a tropical paradise. The latter was used in the celebrated British TV show "Celebrity Love Island", which is a claim to fame if ever I heard one, and the former could be walked around in under five minutes, which is just the so...

I am restarting this entry having almost finished it a moment ago and then losing it all because the computer at my hostel is rubbish - Alice Springs hasn't made the best impression on me so far!! I flew in here today and it felt a little strange getting on a plane after all the long coach journeys, but I'm sure to have plenty of time on the road in the next week as I travel up to Darwin. I left you last about to go on my Whitsundays sailing trip and I'm pleased...

Currently in Airlie Beach, about to go on my two day sailing trip of the Whitsundays, which I'm looking forward to providing my seasickness tablets work ok. It feels like I'm squeezing in so many activities on my way up the East Coast and the time is flying; I fly to Alice Springs from Cairns a week today. Finally it's hot - I think I achieved a bit of classy sunburn yesterday. Unfortunately I spent the past few days mainly on a coach looking at the sun out of ...

I'm now in Rainbow Beach, Queensland, having covered a lot of miles in the past week since I left Sydney. Rainbow Beach is one of the gateways to Fraser Island, where I will be going for a three day, two night tour tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to that and hoping for good weather; it's certainly improved as I've gone up the East Coast but the sunbathing conditions are still a bit temperamental. I almost got washed into the sea today with some careless sunb...

Since leaving Melbourne, I've packed an awful lot in, which I shall attempt to hastily summarise as I only have ten minutes of internet time left, plus I really need to pack before my 6.30am bus departure tomorrow! This is just another in the string of early starts I've had, including my departure out of Melbourne a week ago. The first day of my three day journey to Sydney took me to Wilson's Promontory National Park where I saw kangaroos and koalas in the wild, ...