Making Leanne camp in swags and asking her to eat food cooked on campfires comes with conditions. The condition manifested itself as a 5 star hotel in Adelaide. We actually hadn't accounted for Easter and all the hostels were booked due to a big open air gig on the sunday, and so we searched lastminute.com for hotels. Surprisingly the cheapest (well, one of the cheapest) was a 5 star luxury hotel right in the heart of the city. Beautiful. We got the transit bus ...

Another adventure completed, another box ticked, another photo album to load, another one of Leanne's fear conquered and another selection of cuts on Matt's legs. We managed to achieve all this by visiting the Red Centre, the most important geological and historical area of this awesome continent. We'd booked on a 3 day, 2 night camping package and left at 6am on day 1 for the long drive to Ayers Rock (aka Uluru or The Rock), The Olgas (aka Kata Tjuta), and King...

So our east coast odyssey has come to and end but what a way to finish; on The Great Barrier Reef. For those of you who don't know it's the largest living organism and is visible with the naked eye from space. It's the beautiful home to some of the most incredible fish, corals and other marine life imaginable. We were on a prepaid trip to see it and left around 9am. It was, without any doubt, the best organised, most friendly trip, i've ever been on. The boat was...

Well since we last spoke, both of us have changed. We left Byron as mere travellers, but we have arrived in Airlie Beach a few days later with outback camping survival experience to rival Ray Mears and sailing abilities slightly better than that of Ellen MacArthur. In short we are now true adventurers. How has this happened I hear you ask. Well get comfortable and i'll tell you.We left Byron and caught a Greyhound bus to Hervey Bay in Queensland. Greyhound buses ...

So here we are in Byron Bay, the most easterly point of Australia. For years the "first place to get the sunlight" has attracted hippies and mother-earth types and it is now populated by their offspring, namely crusties and vegan tree huggers. There's not a lot of meat on sale here and the trees are tall and well loved. This notwithstanding, we have found a nice place to stay, just back from the beach and have been relaxing for a few days now. That's no...