I've now properly arrived in Brisbane following my Australian "Safari". After meeting Bundy Bear at the Distillery, I went turtle watching on Mon Repos beach in the evening. It is well organised, but does involve a lot of waiting around hoping for the turtles to join the show. It is still quite early in the season, but after several hours, we were fortunate to find one turtle make an appearance. The females pull themselves up the beach, dig a hole and lay t...

This has been a strange few days. On Thursday I caught the flight up from Melbourne to Cairns with no problem. The first surprise was that the folk hiring the camper-van in Cairns did not also hire out GPS receivers. The usual response to a request for a GPS is that it is easy to get from one town to another since there is usually only one road. However, for me, the real value in a GPS is to able to get to a specific camp site or restaurant say, with out hav...

An unintentional long day, but I'll cover it in a blog later. Now for bed.