Hello all,I'm back in Sydney now and my tour trek has ended.  It seems weird not to be with the people that I've spent 6 weeks with, but at least yesterday it was nice and sunny in Sydney so I did some sight-seeing.  I walked to Mrs Macquaries's Chair and down by the Opera House.  Had lunch with Nikki and then wandered back via the shops.We spent the last day of our tour in Barrington in a mountain retreat where Kerry from my group cele...

Hello again from New South Wales,We're back in NSW after having crossed the border from Queensland earlier this morning and am now at the eastern most point of Australia - see photos.After my delightful stay at the farm where we could feed horses and milk cows (not that I did any of that), I have been on Moreton Island.  Moreton Island is a sand island and my main memories of the place will be the sand and how it got absolutely everywhere.  I f...

Hello and greetings from Myella where I'm staying on a working farm.The majority of the others have gone to feed horses and look at how a farm works but I thought I'd check my emails instead, not being the biggest fan of animals!Since the Great Barrier Reef cruise I have been on several more boat trips.  I went on a sailing trip to the Whitsundays.  The beaches were beautiful and stunning.  I also got the chance to wear a very fla...

Hello,I'm now in Mission Beach - not that far south from Cairns.  We're here for two nights and I have a free day tomorrow as everyone else is off white water rafting.  Not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow as swimming in the sea or paddling is off limits due to box jellyfish.  I'll probably just lounge around and enjoy having a day to myself.The cruise to the Great Barrier Reef was good.  It was slightly rough on the way out ...

Hello and greetings from Queensland.I have finally made it through the outback and back to the coast to Cairns.  Since Darwin, we have been travelling an average of 700km a day to try and cross the outback and there has not even been a lot to see.We stayed first in Mataranka and enjoyed the thermal springs before bush camping at a place where a trip to the toilet required you to take a shovel with you.  Then onto Mount Isa which is the world's large...