We arrived in Cairns early morning and immediately realised that this area was much more tropical and humid than the other places we had previously visited. After exploring the city we booked our boat to dive the Great Barrier Reef for the following day and went back to our hotel. The rest of the day we could only chill out in the pool, as the temperature was reaching about 40 degrees! The next day was our dive day on the Great Barrier Reef. We had an early sta...

I left Sydney for Bryon bay at 10pm. The coach journey wasn't too bad, except for the fact that i was sitting next to an obese old man who reaked of cigars and wouldnt stop talking about the war! However, when he stopped talking at roughly 2am i managed to get some sleep and i arrived in Byron Bay the following morning at 8am. I booked myself into a nice hostel called "Aquarius", a very cool place with all the rooms encompassing a circular, central area...