28 JanWe spent all day on the bus from Airlie Beach to Cairns..... thrilling!29 JanStupidly whilst we were in Brisbane we booked to do a skydive and now the time has come to throw ourselves out of a plane! 7.40am pickup from the hostel so after a light breakfast of toast and coffee (less to bring back up) we got the minibus to the 'Jump the Beach' skydive base (www.jumpthebeach.com.au) near Mission Beach. We had booked to do a 10,000 foot jump but were co...

25 - 27 January After another long bus journey to Airlie Beach I went on a two night sailing trip of the Whitsunday Islands whilst Ed stayed in Airlie Beach and did a rainforest tour and a crocodile tour. The boat I went on was called Condor, built in the UK and won a lot of sailing competitions when it was in use. As it was obviously built for sailing not for tourists the beds were quite funny - single bunks suspended over double beds all in an open cabin. I pr...

21-24 January After a long bus ride from Brisbane we spent a day in Hervey Bay - not much there really. Ed walked around the beach whilst I went to the Ian Hislop Shark Expo, a really funny/tacky exhibition about shark hunting complete with frozen sharks in a big freezer! 33 of us from the hostel headed over to Fraser Island in three 4-wheel drive vehicles. Ed & I & an Italian guy called Raneiro were the only people who volunteered to drive. Being th...

17-20 JanuaryWell this is over a month ago now so I will be brief with the update! We spent three days in Brisbane, walked around the city, went up the Town Hall bell tower, walked along a boardwalk to the 'Streets Beach' (an artificial beach in the middle of the city complete with sand and palm trees - sponsored by Streets the Australian version of Wall's ice cream), had a look at the botanical gardens and Brisbane Museum.  After spending o...