Mission Beach 20th-24th OctFriday, moved to a place called Mission Beach. Beautiful place with an amazing beach, which was just across the road from the hostel I was staying at. The beach was a good couple of miles long and a couple of times I was pretty much the only person on it. Great place to chill out although there really is not much there, about 5 resturants and a couple of bars tops. I did manage to shoe horn Extreme white water rafting into my chill...

Cairns 12th-20th Oct 2006Hey EveroneArrived in Cairns on 12th Oct and it was raining. Typical!!. Got to Gilligans backpackers around 8:30am to check in. Ingeniously, I had booked the night before so that when I arrived I wouldn't have to hang about until 2pm to get to my room. Unfortunately some plank had forgotton to make a note of this and they had checked me out for not showing up on the 11th. Typicall!!. That went down well, but I showed them the voucher ...

25th Dec - 5th Jan Christmas day was the best day ever. Got up in the morning and had a beer with breakfast about 10ish. A mate Nathan and I left to head for Bondi about midday to meet Swindon Steve, Matt and Chelle for Gatecrasher, an all day rave in the pavillion on bondi beach. It started at 10am and finished at 10pm. We got in about 1 and it was all open air so we could rave away in the sunshine. I had a large santas hat on, shorts and a larey shirt, and dra...