Temperature: 28 °C, partially cloudy. Wildlife: Tiger Sharks, Bull Sharks, Whaler Sharks, Reef Sharks, Dingoes. Highlights: Fraser Island was a real surprise, the largest sand island with its magnificent fresh water lakes, coloured sands, fresh springs, and wildly varying rainforests, Steve went for an aerial view from a tiny plane. After crossing the Tiger sharks breeding ground we made our way to the safer waters of Rainbow beach, where we had an amazin...

After receiving a couple of comments about our short commentaries, we may expand on them a little, but we still subscribe to the "less is more" camp in that section. Temperature: 25-32 °C, cyclone "JIM", strong winds, horizontal rain, intersparsed with patches of burning sunshine. Places visited: Innisfail, Townsville, Mission Beach, Airlie Beach, Capricorn caves Rockhampton, Yeppoon, Town of 1770. Wildlife: Bats, Kangaroos, Jellyfish, Road kill. Disa...

Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea Temperature : 30-32 °C, sunny, rainy, stormy, but most of all very WAVEY... Wildlife : Sharks, Octopus, thousands of reef fish and corals, manta rays, moray eels, bioluminescent plankton, stingers Highlights : Extreme diving, diving in the pitch black (night dives), Steve acquiring Advanced Diver cert., Fantastic meals, first-class (ex-tuna fishing) diving vessel, Being dropped in the middle of the ocean by dingy (off the...

Queensland: Cairns Temperature: 34°C, sunny, breezy, sweaty Wildlife: more Asians than Aussies, killer jelly fish and crocodile Highlights: Yakiniku (Japanese Restaurant), Rainforest and its beautiful vistas and killer creepy crawlies (insects), waterfalls, Kuranda Railway and Gondola and Village, man-made lagoon, most contemporary hostel (super funky) Disappointments: still can't swim in the sea Other: feels like we are somewhere in sunny USA Thou...

Red Centre: Alice Springs, Kings' Canyon, Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) Temperature: 47 °C, Humidity: just like licking sawdust Wildlife: Red Back spiders, Lizards, Dingos, Wild Horses, Ants Highlights: Crocodile soup & Roo steak, walking through Mars like territory, reasonably large rocks (Ayers), camping under the stars, no mosquitoes, dusty dawns and fiery sunsets, transsexual tour guide, learning Australian folk songs ("G'day, g'day, ho...