After a heavy night out in Cairns we caught the Greyhound to Mission Beach where we stayed at Scottys. When we arrived we headed straight for the beach for a snooze in the sun. The skydivers land right on the beach next to after their jumps, was really cool to watch them circling their way down onto the beach. We also went on a little hike to look for cassowaries but we didn't find any, was good exercise though! Later, we cooked dinner back at the hostel and ...

We spent over a week in Cairns, was a really cool place with loads of things to do - plus our hostel and the people there were all really nice. To start with we had our own twin room for a couple of nights which was a bit of a luxury after sharing in Alice Springs, especially after experiencing some seriously annoying snorers! After our trip to Cape Trib we returned to the same hostel but shared a room with a couple of guys - Juan the French/Spanish guy who works...

We got up at 5am to get ready for our safari! After a quick breakfast we were picked up by our guide for the next few days - "Spinna" a small, strange-looking man who knew so much about plants and rocks! We left the hostel around 6.30ish  and by 7.30am Em and I found ourselves on the back of a camel! We stopped off at a camel farm where we had the opportunity to ride them up a big pen and back again. This was a first for Em and I can honestly say I...

We left Hong Kong on Sunday 8th Oct and flew over to Perth, Australia. From Perth we had a domestice flight to Alice Springs in Central Australia to do our Ayres Rock Safari. We finally arrived in Alice Springs around 4.30pm on Monday 9th - we'd been travelling for a very long time! The first Ozzie we met was the guy at security and he was from Great Barr, Birmingham! (can you believe that? From near the Scott Arms for the people who know). From the airp...