hi, finally arrived in Melbourne, got here yesterday night. Today is quite wet and so haven't got up to much really. we met up with a girl from the tour and visiited the melboune Gaol which was quite interesting. Tomorrow morning we are off to see Ramsey street home of Neighbours which should be good fun and tomorrow night is the Neighbours 'meet the stars' night which should be good fun, I will try to get lots of photos of both of them. Other than than we hav...

hello. we are now at Byron bay for the night, Tom has just this minute gone skydiving having only rang up yesterday to book it and leaving to go 5 minutes after the bus got in here which is pretty lucky for him. We spent a couple of days in noosa with Courtenay, the girl from our tour, where we went to the beach most days and actually went skinny dipping one night in the ocean which was fun. We got Courtenay to dye both of our hair so mine is now looking quite go...

Tom and I have now left Cairns and have arrived at Mission beach where we will spend the night before going on to a place called Townsville. There is not much to report at the moment as the tour has finished, we are just planning to have a lazy day by the pool as we can't swim in the ocean because of the jellyfish. It is still hot here, just over 30 degrees today but is noticebly cooler than the northern territory. It seems that getting to Melbourne on time wi...

well well, my contiki tour has finished which is sad but at the same time it is nice to be free to do the our own thing once again. The other day we visited the famous devil's marbles which are halfway between darwin and alice springs, they have been formed by weather erosion and some of the rocks are almost perfect spheres. for lunch that day we visited a little outback like pub which was decorated in peoples belongings that they have donated from such things ...

heya, just arrived back in Alice springs after going out to visit Kings canyon etc. The first part of this tour we spent visiting a wildlife park and the flying doctors museum. The next day a few people including me went out to see an aborigional settlement where we learnt how the aborigional people lived and a bit of history about them. we got to trow a boomarang, try some bush fruits and eat Kangaroo tail. The kangaroo tail was nice but i decided against ea...