G'day from Brisbane! Since our last blog we had our 3 day trip to Fraser Island which was fantastic. I did most of the driving in our 4x4 and it was great fun, particularly through the forests and mud tracks. Thankfully we didn't have any breakdowns or instances of getting stuck! We only saw 1 dingo on the island which was a tad disappointing as we were expecting an army of them! The camping was fun and we had a group of Irish gals with us who were a great crack...

Hi from Airlie Beach! We're just back from a 3 day boat trip to the Whitsunday Islands which was fantastic and the best thing we've done since arriving in Oz. We went to Whitehaven Beach one morning and it was a beach like paradise, on par with Phi Phi Le in Thailand. We saw some sting rays and small sharks as well as a masseef lizard thing! Part of the trip included a dive on the Great Barrier Reef which was also great - saw so many different fish and corals of ...

Cairns is brilliant. The weather is awesome, 35 degrees everyday and sun always shining. The tans are coming along nicely! We've agreed a deal "in principal" for a Nissan 4x4 jeep with some Belgians - it's a mean machine! We're meeting the people tomorrow morning at 11:00 to finalise the deal! Fingers crossed they turn up and don't muck us about - they seemed OK though so hopefully no problems. It's costing us $5500 which is about 2700 quid back home. W...