Airlie Beach and The Whitsundays Saturday 9th October - Saturday 16th October 2010 We arrived in Airlie and got to "Airlie Waterfront Backpackers", a large complex and we have a small room with bunkbeds! But we like it. It seems more "party" than Maggie but not quite as trashy as Cairns so it's all good. When we woke up in the morning the weather was s***...again! So we cheered ourselves up by buying a couple of xmas prezzies (one we couldn...

Townsville and Magnetic Island "This is more like it!" Monday 4th October - Friday 8th October 2010 Hi everyone! So much to tell you! We are now on Magnetic Island but spent 2 nights in Townsville before we came over which was also quite nice. Our hostel is fab, it's called "Reef" and has paintings of the reef covering every wall, even our bedspread is a dolphin one! The weather has eventually perked up aswell which has made us all very ha...

Port Douglas "The Beach" Saturday 2nd October - Sunday 3rd October 2010 Hi again! We left Cairns this morning on the free bus to Port Douglas, we were glad to as the rain got much worse last night. We had our free meal at the Woolshed as standard then went back to our lovely little hippy hostel and played cards with VB. The bus was cool, well no it was quite hot actually but the driver was cool as he ate his burger king (or "Hungry Jacks" ...

London Heathrow - Cairns "Best Laid Plans!" Saturday 25th September - Monday 27th September 2010 Hi everyone! Welcome to our first entry! Firstly, I will attempt to explain the massive wounder of a journey we encountered! I spent so long looking for the perfect itinery which meant we would get directly to Cairns as efficiently as possible with no wasted time in millions of airports, but my best laid plans went horribly wrong at Heathrow airport! We were de...