HiAfter oour bus trip from Cairns, we arrived in Townsville where we spent the night in the worst guesthouse ever - it was like being back in the 60's!We decided not to spend any time in Townsville as we were so keen to get over to Magnetic Island - known locally as Maggie Island (typical of the Aussies!!)  We caught the ferry over to the Island and arrived at our accommodation which was great - up market camping!  We stayed in A-frame wooden bungal...

HelloWe arrived in Cairns on Saturday afternoon to a much better temperature - about 30 degrees!At the end of January we fly from Brisbane to New Zealand so we have just over two weeks to fit the east coast of Australia in. So when we arrived in Cairns we booked two trips straight away to make sure we didn't miss out on anything! Our first trip on Sunday was to dive the Great Barrier Reef. We paid for 1 dive and all day snorkelling. It was a good day out but ...

Hi We arrived in Alice Springs last tuesday to a sweltering 40 degrees. We spent the day looking around the town and went to a Reptile House to make ourselves aware of the local wildlife before we ventured out into the outback the following day. On Wednesday we were collected by our tour guide Juzzy at 6.15am and made our way across the outback which took 4 hours in a very hot bus! Our first stop was to The Olgas where we got a taste of how hot the outback can...

HiOn Friday we went from Sydney to The Blue Mountains by train which took about 2 hours.  We are staying in Katoomba which is a great place to explore The Blue Mountains, which gets its name from the blue haze that is given off from the ecalyptus trees which surround the area.We have spent the last couple of days exploring the mountains on foot and by 4x4 jeep.  Echo Point and Then Three sisters are the most famous of the mountain formations a...

Happy New Year!!  We hope you all had fun celbrating and was great to speak to some of you over christmas and new year!We arrived in Sydney last week and have been having a fantastic time.  Our hostel is great and gives us chance to cook instead of going out for meals all the time which is a very welcome relief.  The hostel is only about 20mins from the city so is perfect.Since we arrived we've been doing lots of sight seeing around the city an...