Bula!! thats fijian for hello and pretty much anything else! here i am in sunny Fiji on the cusp of the end of my journey, sob! left auckland after a 8 and half hour wait for my plane (grr) anhd arrived to the humid air of nadi airport. we stayed at the nadi bay hotel for the night and then was up at stupid oclock to catch the bus to port denaru for our bumpy catamaran journey to Long Beach resort in the Yasawa islands which believe it or not, had a long beach! w...

hello! greetings from Paihia! we left Taupo for Waitomo where we stayed in a cute log cabin type hostel Juno Hall and spent a lovely long evening watching DVDs and eating a lot of bangers And mash. good times. The next day we all kinda split up. Dan and Alice went black water rafting whilst i chose to visit 3 seperate caves, the Aranui, glowworm caves where you go on a little boat in the darkness and arwe just surrounded by little stars of light which was so be...

hello! its been a while since an update! our last day in Queenstown was spent mainly on the road to Milford Sound which is on the west coast and basically a lot of amazing fjords and valleys! luckily we had beautiful weather for it as Milford Sound usually has 6 metres of rainfall a year. yes, so much it has to be measured in metres!! we went out on a ferry and this was driven by a guy who had a keen eye for the seals, dolphins and other interesting natural sight...

well here we are in country number 2, New Zealand, home of the Kiwi and a lot of sheep and now for the next month me alice dave and dan! we had an early start for the bloody flight from our bloody noisy hostel (our room pretty much was in the club which pounded with music pretty much all day, i think im still bobbing around to the rhythm now) so we had a fairly good flight which was mercifully short as we had screaming kids, not one but 2 and me and alice were re...

hello! back in Brisbane as you can see, had the most amazing time snorkelling on the Whitsundays and Great Barrier reef, saw some huge parrot fish, squid, turtles and literally every tropical fish you see in your local takeaways's fish tank but about times bigger! went in a glass bottomed boat so got close up to the coral which was so colourful and incredibly beautiful, well worth going to! visited whitehaven beach which was stunning, tho the toilets were full o...