Day 116 - The Great Barrier Reef - Thursday 9th February 2012 We woke up excited about today's trip of snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef; although Ad was a tad nervous as snorkelling goes against his 'no water above the nipples rule'! We'd booked with Aristocrat and our ride picked us up outside our place and before we knew it we were boarding the boat. To our surprise it was busy - where had all the people come from? We'd spent days wandering Port Douglas...

Day 113, 114, 115 - Port Douglas - Monday 6th, Tuesday 7th, Wednesday 8th February 2012 We woke, got ready, check out and were in our ride to Port Douglas by 10am. The drive up should have been lovely - the scenery was beautiful on the coastal road, however by the end of it Ad and I were feeling really car sick and were green in the face. Port Douglas is lovely and probably my favourite little town so far - it's all very walkable and the town itself has a lovel...

Day 112 - Tablelands and Waterfalls tour - Sunday 5th February 2012 This morning we were off to do our "Tablelands" tour, this was a tour that our original agents gave us for free so we were a little bit dubious as to what it would be like. We were picked up at 7am by our tour guide for the day; his name was Wyily, apparently a very Australia name although neither I nor Soph had ever heard of it?! After about 30 mins of collecting other people from var...

Day 110, 111 - Cairns - Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th February 2012 After checking out and having some breakfast, we caught our last greyhound bus of our East Coast trip. We arrived in Cairns a mere 2 hours later to torrential rain and waited for an hour for our hostel to pick us up - not quite the promising start we'd hoped for….. Once at the Cairns Beach house we looked around and given that we'd got 3 nights for the price of $90 we were surprisingly impressed. ...

Day 108, 109 - Mission Beach - Wednesday 1st, Thursday 2nd February 2012 4am came and so we arrived in a very dark and quiet Mission beach; to add to this our hostel didn't open until 8am and it was pouring with rain! We made our way over to where our hostel was and found a restaurant that did buffet breakfasts and opened at 6.30am so we camped outside until the sun rose and the doors opened. After gorging ourselves with several helpings of cooked breakfasts, fr...