Day 15 of the connections tour of we go to the airport to collect our little quantus plane to alice. i was chased by the maid before we left as she though i had forgot to take all my belongings, i had actually just left loads of clothes behing as i was desparately running out of room in my case. a couple of hours on the planeand we finally land into 41c heat, my now this is hot, but its very dry heat. meet our new driver leigh and headed top our home ...

Day 14 of the connections tour the last official day of the east coast tour. i have decided to extend my trip and continue on the tour to see ayers rock and the northern territory. this has meant a lot of messing around sorting out flights and thing, to which i am so greatful to aisha for sorting it all out for me. off to the rainforest today. kuranda. missed out on the skyrail as i had to get the final details on the flight sorted.at the toip of the town was a b...

Day 13 of the connections tour Today we visit the great barrier reef. caught a catermerang (i wish i could spell) lets just call it a boat. the weather was much more to my likeing hot and sunny, although the seas were still very rough. 2 and a half hours to reach the area of the barrier reef where i was planning to snorkel and do some skuba diving. after filling out the medical questionaire thinking carefully whether 8 hours had passed since my last ...

Day 12 of the connections tour Today i will be mostly jumping out of a plane. Skydive day today, 2 of us from the tour decided to take the plunge (no pun intented). myself and annet. we were both pretty nervous about what we had foolishly decided to do. A 14000ft jump, the highest they will allow in australia. 60 seconds of freefall followed by around 4 minutes floating safely to earth, well thats the plan. We were up early in the morning to catc...

Day 11 of our connections tour off to cairns. 7am start from the ferry via 2 islands back to chute harbour where we caught our coach. i was asked to repeat my performance of last night on the coach which i done reluctantly until i got to the point i couldnt remember the next verse. we stopped at a fruit and veg barn in the middle of nowhere, so i had ice cream. our next big thing was round the corner the big mango. we stopped at townsville for lu...