Well as you can probably tell from the date of this entry compared to the date of the last one I haven't updated my journal for a while - sorreeee. It's been really hard to cram everthing in so the journal has fallen by the way-side somewhat. Hey Ho! From Barrington Tops (which was fantastic! I did end up staying outside for the night but once the obligatory drinking games set-off there wasn't too much sleeping happening!) we carried on to Byron Bay. Byro...

Well after a load of cyclone-related arjee-barjee we finally made it up to Mission Beach. I only had one night there (because of all the delays) but it was my last night (or so we thought) with our little group and so we made the most of it! We were told about a place that, apparently, does the best Roo in Oz so we all took off to that. I had mine with plum sauce - bloody delicious! I'm getting a bit partial to skippy steaks. Wonder if you can get them at home? ...

Here we are on Magnetic Island then. All of our original travel plans are going a bit awry as Cyclone Larry has destroyed a couple of the hostels we wanted to stay in and blocked some of the roads we intended to use to get to them. But never mind. Magnetic is lovely. There's not much to do but the hostel we're staying in is fabulous. Lots of little huts set out into little palm tree-lined rows - all over-looking the beach. There's a great bar that's alwa...

Our sailing adventure - though dampened slightly by the weather being a little dodgy - was hilarious. There were 12 of us on the boat from all over the world and between people getting seasick, trying to cook at a 45 degree angle, trying to smoke in gale-force winds and trying to wriggle into the super- attractive stinger suits - I don't think we stopped laughing until we got back off the boat! We had a couple of hours off the boat but for the most part we...

The Drive from Kroombit to Airlee is about 12 hours so that was spent nursing goat and mechanical bull-induced bruising, hangovers and watching Finding Nemo. We did stop off, in Rockhampton - the beef capital of Oz - for a spot of bare-foot lawn bowls - I ask you! Rockhampton is right on the Tropic of Capricorn so we've all got "humidity hair" and we're all sweaty and very unattractive (hard to believe I know) and we all just wanted to get there but we made...