After a long 6-hour bus journey to get to Hot water beach I was looking forward to stretching my legs. A ten minute drive down the road was the start to the walking trail to Cathedral Cove, a secluded picturesque beach that made an appearance in the recent Narnia film. The walk took 45 minutes each way and was a little challenging in flip-flops but Bobbi and I made it and we were glad we made the effort. We had a paddle in the sea and took some photos but decided...

Bobbi, Sam and I had an early start to make sure we were ready to embark the bus at 7am. I was excited to meet fellow travellers that would hopefully join us for the majority of our New Zealand journey. The first stop was in Whangadai, which has 270km of coastline characterised by irregular rocky headlands, sheltered harbours, sandy bay and tidal mud flats it was the perfect location to stop and grab lunch and supplies for the Easter weekend. Bay of islands ...

It was time to say goodbye to Oz and head to to New Zealand..to say I was excited would be an understatement!! I was looking forward to meeting Sam at the airport who was joining Bobbi and I on the next part of our adventure, we had met Sam in Thailand at the start of our trip together. We landed in Auckland after a short delay and made our way to Mt Eden where we were staying for a couple of nights before starting the Kiwi Experience tour. The only thing we w...

We have 6 more days left in Australia and we headed back to Brisbane to relax before setting off on our next chapter of our tour in New Zealand. At the airport we were delighted to be greeted by Bobbi's family friends Karen and Carl who lived in Mooloolaba (an hour outside Brisbane). Little did we know that when we arrived at the house, we recognised two others sitting on the decking enjoying a glass of wine! Bobbi's mum Bren, step dad Barry and little brother Je...

In the Wet Tropics, water falls out of the sky often. Luckily the rivers and streams cascading from the highlands to the coast spill over terrain that creates natural features in the popular forms of the shimmering lakes and cascading waterfalls which are the stand-out attractions of the region. We had chosen to join a Barefoot tour for the day with Ro the fantastic tour guide. Even though the forecast was for rain all day we didn't let it get us down. On the bu...