We have finally escaped townsville and hopefully escaped the armpit of Australia too! Haha. I must have been allergic because i have caught a cold which I am fighting hard against before another trip to the reef up in cairns! The picture is from mission beach which is in all the travel mags as the place to go but as you can see the devastation from the last cyclone has destroyed the land and the moral! Anyway we have found a nice caravan park just a bit further n...

Well took an hour or two to get used to the boat but then really enjoyed the sailing trip! You wouldn't believe the amount of tropical fish that we saw near at the reef and to be honest the reef itself was probably the most interesting, so many different types and colours! First night the sea was quite rough and it was hard to sleep but the second was so still and the stars where amazing too. We had a great view of the milky way. Back on dry land now and spending...

Today we are going to visit the Whitsunday islands and sleep two night on board a ship! Hoping for some good snorkelling and no sun burn. Even though I have trained my pastey skin well its hot with a sea breeze you know that secret burning weather! Anyway looking forward to it! Well apart from the fact that we are not aloud to take any bags with zips on board so we don't transfer any bed bugs which lay their eggs in zippers! You can imagine what going to sleep to...

Haven't wrote for a couple of days because ever since we left hervey bay we have been struggling to find any electricity to charge our phones up. Oh yer that and the fact that we have been doing a hell of a lot of driving recently! The first afternoon drive was constant rain followed by a 3 hour detour the next day because of flooding!! We visited places like McKay and Rockhamton along the way, which have been self described by the locals as hillbilly towns! Th...

Had a good two days on Fraser island a welcomed change after driving the van around for the last few weeks! The island itself had a lot of interesting ecological facts and things to see but the best thing by far were the other people that were also on the trip! We all got on really well Mexicans, Dutch, Germans, Swiss, French and Brazilian. Mainly spoke to a Mexican couple the same age as us, shared a few stories over one two many beets last night but felt fine t...