Well we survived Christmas with Rudolf and had a good time too. The Aussies don't really do the Christmas thing like back home but I think that's more to do with it being too hot to be bothered - and boy was Christmas day hot. We spent Xmas Eve eve in a local bar on Rainbow Beach (decided to spend the festive season here as we loved the place so much) listening to a live band who were a very very bad version of status quo (you can't have it all...). We'd alrea...

This place is stunning - Cape Tribulation knocked me sideways but Fraser just knocked me out. Basically, this is the largest sand island in the world and also a world heritage listed site. It's a place of outstanding national beauty (just look at the photos) and has some of the most prolific wildlife in Oz - from the purest breed of dingo to man eating sharks - obviously swimming in the sea here is not a good idea but then that's not a problem as you have th...

Hey well we're nearly at Brisbane - should get there in time for Xmas when we have to leave Rudolf (sob! sob!) but we're going to check out if we can keep him for Xmas (finger's crossed). Anyway, we're having a great time have done tons of driving - 1800 ks so far - but seen some good stuff on the way. I last left you in Airlie Beach and there we went sailing around the Whitsundays which was fab sailing but poor snorkelling. Stayed at a great campsite for...

Well we picked up our campervan on Friday (how excited was we) and promptly named him Rudolf which seemed appropriate. After stocking up with food and beer, wine, vodka and fags of course we set off of the Atherton Tablelands which is west of Cairns and is very high up and has stunning scenery of mountains, forests, waterfalls and wildlife (two wallabies actually sat outside Rudolf on our first night camping but I was not quick enough with the camera). We'v...

Yeeesssss we've got a bloody campervan, can't believe it after days of solid hard graft looking we're successful. It seems that everyone in Cairns is heading south to be in Sydney for Xmas and it was a nightmare trying to arrange any transport - we even looked at Kayaking down (joking I think...). We (that's Kirsten and me - Kirsten is in the piccy) pick it up this afternoon and we've got two weeks to drive down to Brisbane. So folks you can look forward to ou...