Today we visited the largest living thing on earth, the great barrier reef, and be assured it is truly great. We had decided to venture out to the outer reef as it had been recommended to us. We checked in at the reef fleet terminal bright and early, checked In and jumped aboard to start our 90 minute journey to a pontoon around 50km from the shore. Mum and dad had previously recalled to us Katie's first trip on a ferry (Dover to Calais) when she was only abou...

As we arrived in cairns bus station at 6:30am people gathered their things and trotted off the bus. I was initially still trapped by the reclining seat previously mentioned. When the girl who has essentially slept on my lap all night commented that she was "soo tired" I just about resisted the urge to slap her. Here we are in cairns at the charming dreamtime travellers rest, showered, and ready to explore! After a wonder and some research of what we plan to do...

G'day from Airlie beach! Our last day here today so we checked out of the hostel and headed down to the lagoon, weather beautiful again! I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before but down under there are BBQs in parks etc for people to use, they are free and really great so today we've decided to make use! Grabbed some supplies from the supermarket and got cooking between the lagoon and the harbour. Perfect! Just laying at the pool now waiting for my burger ...

Its official. I despise reclining seats. It's a great idea in theory but in reality is ridiculous. The worse reclining seats I have come across In my 25years are aboard the greyhound buses in Australia. The only thing worse than them are the people who insist on putting there seat as far back as it will go as soon as they board, without even trying to sleep with it even just slightly reclined. As you can probably guess I am currently aboard a greyhound bus wit...

Wow. What a day! As the alarm sounded at 5:55 am, I'll be honest, I initially found dragging myself up difficult! However, there we were at the bus stop waiting to be picked up for our sailing trip around the whitsundays. The skies were blue again as we jumped aboard the camira (aboriginal meaning "of the wind") catamaran, I was quick to grab us a spot at the front o the boat across the mesh part under the sails, I needn't have rushed to be honest though as the ...