Yesterday we were up at 8.00am still on a high from our skydive! We checked out at 10.00am and hung around Scotty's Beach House in the boiling heat waiting for our bus to arrive. We departed Mission Beach at just after 1.30pm and headed south with Greg as our driver. We made good time and after a food break en-route we made it into Townsville for around 5.15pm. We headed into the ferry terminal and collected our ticket which was included in our accommodation pack...

Yesterday we were up and at Backpacker World Travel Agency, our OZ Experience pick up point, by 6.45am. We checked in and got on the bus ready to leave just after 7.30am. We had the mis-fortune to be in front of a few 18 year old Dad's girls, who charged their tickets onto their Father's credit cards! Very posh and immature. We stopped off at Innisfail, a small town just outside Cairns, to pick up some provisions and ATM stop. Then we headed to a Crocodile F...

Yesterday was probably our earliest start of the trip so far, we were up at 3.45am for a 4.20am pick up to travel inland for a hot air balloon ride over the Atherton Tablelands and the rainforest. We arrived at the 'launch site' after about a 45 minute journey and we were airbourne by 6.00am. It was such an amazing experience, so smooth and tranquil and really comfortable although none of us were graceful getting into the basket! After 30 minutes of photo taking,...

Once again it was another early start, we were up at 6.15am and once ready we got a taxi over to Jayne's lovely apartment (complete with a much needed, and over the next day or two, a much used washing machine and dryer!). She smuggled us in (we were staying with her for a couple of nights) and kindly supplied us with fruit, cereal bars and coffee for breakfast before we hijacked her tour for the day! For free we were able to spend the day together and our first...