We flew to the Gold Coast (Coolengatta) on Feb 6th. Completely changed our plans but that didnt matter...we were now on the job hunt! We had 7 weeks or so till my parents arrived so we thought we'd settle here by the beach, good weather and enjoy the lifestyle! We travelled about 20 miles north from the airport to Surfers Paradise, a big town with huge skyscrapers along the coast....the view is pretty awesome. The sun was shining (yey) so we thought we could l...

So we left Mission beach and headed back to Cairns...something totally unplanned, but by this point the floods had been officially named one of Australia's biggest natural disasters (and then to make things worse for the country the Victoria bushfires began and is still on going, something I know has made headlines worldwide). We got back to Cairns tea time and decided to stay more in town because we were up early in the morning for our Great Barrier Reef trip. ...

So after leaving Port Douglas and hanging around in Cairns for a few hours, we eventually arrived in Mission Beach in the afternoon on Monday 2nd Feb! Weather pretty cloudy...its warm/humid but you can tell its the wet season at the moment!!! The Greyhound wasnt going much further that Innisfall due to the flood waters blocking the highway. People travelling along the Bruce Highway are literally stuck....you cant travel through to Townsville because of the flood...

On Sat 31st Jan we left Cairns and headed an hour north to a little place called Port Douglas. We were caught up in a heavy tropical storm and the rain kept thrashing down during the journey up there. We travelled along a beautiful coastal road which in the sunshine would most probably looked awesome! But today with the rain...everything just looked a bit bleak and we were a bit unsure of our next move!We arrived a Dougies hostel....a good place with cabin style ...

We flew to Cairns from Darwin on 29th Jan and I am never sleeping at an airport ever again! Our flight wasnt until 5am so we had a snooze until check in about 3am.....its horrible! I was like a zombie for the rest of the day!!!!! We arrived in Carins to good weather, hot and humid! The airport is literally minutes from the town so we were at our hostel in no time!!! Good hostel with a great pool.....yey!!!! We both slept till lunchtime and then after lunchtime ...