Will catch up with Cairns when i can but for now i shall report on New Zealand!!!!!!! I arrived in New Zealand last night and got the shuttle bus to from the airport to ur hostel in the centre of Christchurch. We arrived late in the evening so when we went to buy supper the only places that were open were KFC, McDonalds and Burger King and they were all right next door to eachother. I went for the healthy (!!) option of a twister, SALAD KFC wrap...mmmm....!We t...

I need to catch up!!I am sorry!!Here we go: Second day in Cape Tribulation: I woke up at 7.30 really excited because that morning i went Horseriding for 3 hours...and it was so much fun!I really got into having just finished reading The Horse Whisperer! My horse was called Wombat and he was brown and apparently previously a wild horse!He had little legs so when he cantered he sort of cat leaped...i kicked him on and boy did he go fast!We rode through the rainf...

There was no signal at all in Cape Tribulation and the internet was so expensive...but i wrote everything down just so i could accurately update my blog! We started our trip to Cape Tribulation off on a very panicky start! lying asleep with the sun shining through our window at our hostel in Cairns seemed was so relaxing until....i jumped in my sleep and shouted...we have missed our bus!It was 7.25 and our bus was leaving at 7.30!we hadn't packed and we had to c...

Having spent 2 sleepless nights on a boat and another on 13 hour bus journey we were all looking forward to a good nights sleep in our hostel....a free night as well but then when it came to booking our bus ticket to Mission Beach we realised this could only be a dream as the bus left Airlie Beach at 2am in the morning. We had a bit of a dilemma with the bus times as we all fell asleep...the alarm went of at 1am and was switched onto snooze mode. 2.04aam came aro...

I just got back from the trip from HELL!!! I can't take pirate ship boats!!! I was really sea sick...motion sickness every minute of the trip bar 2 hours when i was snorkelling and diving! We arrived at the boat with 28 other people and spent the afternoon sailing the whitsundays, or in my case lying on a sofa though i must admit, the view out of the cabin window was truly spectacular. We stopped off over night in Hook Passage where we spotted two sea turtles a...