Wednesday 1th April We picked up a hire car for the journey to Brisbane. We decided after looking on the internet that we would drive, it was seventeen hundred kilometres and we aimed to get to Brisbane by Friday. We set off at nine thirty, and made our way down to Arlie Beach, calling off on a number of places on the way. For most of the journey, there was mile upon mile of sugar cane fields, and Banana trees, they have a railway system around these area used t...

Monday 30th March We flew into Cairns airport at about eight in the morning. The view from the plane was surprising, we had expected the ground to be brown and dry, instead it was very green. Coming into land there was very little in the way of buildings along the coastline. The second surprising thing was how small Cairns was. We had expected a large built up city and instead it was quite a small town with hardly any high rise buildings. We got a taxi from the...