This is a bit of a delayed entry but I have it all down in my journal from the actual date so we'll just pretend this is actually from June 30th! Ok so today we went out to Green Island and did some snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef. It's been boiling hot today, even as we walked to the ferry terminal on the esplanade at about 10am. Our boat was quite small - I think there were about 70 passengers - and called something like Reef Rocket. It went a lot faster...

G'day again from Cairns. The weather hasn't changed, which is a very good thing - apparently although this time of year is "out of season" for most of Australia, it's the best time to be in Cairns because in the Australian summer it's monsoon season. So we've enjoyed glorious sunshine pretty much every day so far. Today we decided we'd stop being lazy and sunbathing by the pool or at the beach all day and actually go on one of the trips we've been talk...

Again, apologies for not updating this in such a long time! Lots has happened since the last entry. We landed in Sydney, and as the pilot put it, "apart from the wind and the rain, it's a pretty nice day". Needless to say, it's not the most fun place in the world in winter, and it reminded us a whole lot of London. So we decided to head up north to the sunshine of Cairns, which we landed in on Monday afternoon. It's really hot here and although it was r...