...So anyway, we were very aware of the copious amounts of helicopters but didn't really think a lot of it until we walked over the river. It was there that we witnessed what I can only describe as a high speed boat chase involving the police, assorted baddies and 3 helicopter. We were having a whale of a time watching the whole drama unfold and feeling like we were in some sort of film but when the 'baddies' pulled out a gun we decided it was time to vamos! We w...

We had a really nice last few days in Australia chilling out round the lagoon in Cairns and catching up with people we'd met at various points on the East Coast. One of the highlights of our time there was definitely going on a trip out to the Great Barrier Reef. We got a free introductory dive included with the trip but to be honest we were all pretty relieved that it was only an introductory one as scuba diving is actually quite hard to get your head around! We...