18/06/08 With only 2 days 'til we're home we're both pretty excited about seeing everyone again. That said we're still having a great time. In Singapore now and it's hotter than ever. It's their summer here and I don't think the temperature has dropped below 28C once since we arrived. We had to abort our trip to Maya Bay (The Beach) last Wednesday as the weather took a turn for the worst. We were told we could use our tickets any time anyway. Instead we spe...

06/06/2008 Well, with only 2 days left in Australia we have very mixed feelings. While we're both really looking forward to Thailand and Singapore, then seeing friends and family very soon, we're going to miss this place tremendously. After exploring this country's most beautiful places we've become really attached to it and it's going to be really hard to leave. Since the 30th we've put a lot more travelling under our belt. We stopped off at Mission Beach, a p...

29/05/08 Wow. Just wow. There's no other way to describe it. As our guide on the boat kept saying, "It's not the 'Okay' Barrier Reef; it's not the 'Pretty Good' Barrier Reef. It's The Great Barrier Reef". We snorkelled it today and it was nothing short of an incredible experience. We swam with parrot fish, predator fish and numerous other beautiful marine creatures. We saw colourful coral, bright blue starfish, and we even found Nemo, much to Laura's...

Blog 28 14/5/08 Not much for this blog, just a little update for you all. If the van doesn't sell in the next 24hrs then we'll be driving up to Airlie Beach, if it does (which we really hope it does) then we'll be catching a bus up to Cairns. Work's been okay, the watermelons were really hard work, we had a quota to hit of 40 tonnes per day and after 3 days we had picked the last field clean. After that I moved onto pruning tomato plants, but the superviso...

Blog 27 05/05/08 Sorry it's been so long since the last blog! The last entry of photos largely relates to this blog, so I apologise for any confusion beforehand. So much has happened it's hard to know where to begin. 3 has now become 2, Helen caught a plane up to Airlie Beach in the Whitsunday Islands just yesterday for work, and we are now in Bundaberg. But I'll start from where we left off… After posting the blog in Sydney we had a night of torre...