After spending the previous couple of days trawling through the internet trying to find ourselves jobs, we were glad of the break yesterday as we headed out to Fitzroy Island for the day with Lynsey and Marcus. We met them at the ferry terminal just before nine o'clock in the morning and after persuading them that we knew where we were going, we were soon on the boat for the short forty-five minute journey across the water. Once we had arrived we headed straight...

We are now both fully qualified entry level scuba divers, after successfully completing the last two days of our Open Water dive course out on the Great Barrier Reef. We were picked up nice and early on Friday morning to make our way to the harbour where we would board the boat that would take us out onto the reef, but we were delayed for some time as Matt had managed to miss his departure point and we had to go back again to get him. When we eventually made it ...

We have now finished the first part of our scuba diving course, both in the pool and in the classroom, and tomorrow we head out to the Great Barrier Reef for a couple of days in the open water. We turned up yesterday morning to the first day of our course along with about twelve others and were taken into the back to what would be our classroom over the next couple of days and after completing a quick medical check (had no idea how hard it is to stand on one leg...

After another stint of driving up the coast on Saturday morning we stopped at a little place called Rollingstone and found one of the best campsites we have stayed in since we have been away. The whole area is surrounded by water with the camping areas all along the ocean front and a manmade lake next to the kitchen and bbq area that also flows between all the cabin areas. We decided to put our tent up right next to the edge of the beach and soon realised why ev...

We left Rockhampton on Thursday morning after our first nights sleep back on the tourist track (and a small exercise in removing ticks from our legs that we had obviously picked up in Bunya) and after another day's driving we reached cape Hillsborough National Park just North of Mackay. Once we arrived we were pleased to see we had a nice little camp spot just across from the beach and were even promised the chance to see kangaroos hopping along the sand in the m...