We headed north towards rainforest and passes through more sugar cane and banana plantations than I have ever seen. We passed through Tully which proudly proclaims itself as 'The wettest place in Australia'...the sun was shining hard and it was 30+ degrees.... We hired a car for 3 days to travel around northern Queensland, Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas and the Atherton Tablelands. It's a shame we didn't have more time because it was stunning up there. W...

Spent a fab day yesterday kayaking around the 'mole' islands (I kid you not!) doing snorkelling and seeing sting ray and amazing fish and coral formations, but fortunately no stingers (jelly fish of the most dreadful) and exploring coastlines with a clan of people from Lancashire and Manchester - I dunno, you come half way round the world and find someone around the corner! I've also been on an Americas cup challenger racing at the local sailing club which was k...

From Noosa we headed up to 'The Rock' - Rockhampton has nothing happening in it but was founded on cattle ranching where they created a new breed of cow called a braford - a cross between a hereford and a brahum or so my mum has informed me on her research. Like I said, nothing there and we had taken an ovenight bus which got us at this thoroughly scintilating place at 3.30am...the servo (service station)is not very exciting for 4 hours let me tell you! The bonu...

Sarah and I were on the 9.30 am bus out of Airlie Beach to Cairns, both with sore heads for some reason, I managed to miss the connection bus so my journey lasted for 12 hours instead of 9 which was a bit pants, however my luggage got there before me and had a look around town so I knew what was there!! That was the night that England won the football 3-0 so bit of a mad run around and excitedness in our dorm at 4am, just as well really as being beaten by the al...

From the amazing trip on Fraser Island I took another fantastic night bus journey of 12 hours (after watching England getting pummelled by the All Blacks much to the delight of my kiwi friends who kept texting me all match!) north to Airlie Beach. There is no beach at Airlie Beach, however there is a nice lagoon complete with a bit of sand and some grass to lounge around on in the glorious sunshine. After a bit of paranoia about bedbugs at the hostel (I wa...