Wow, that's the only word to describe this Island we're on. It's called Magnetic Island, and it's a fairly small island off the coast of Townsville (very high up in Oz so it's so hot!). It gets 340days of sunshine a year and 25days of rain in the monsoon season (we're in the tropics), which is probably the same as England get's in a month. In September there is 11mm of rain for the whole month! The average temperature varies from 25-31...

Well, a few hours ago we stepped off our Pride of Airlie boat which sailed us around the Whitsundays. The Whitsundays is a group of 74 islands all dotted off the coast of Airlie Beach. Out of that 74 only 4 are inhabited, and that's only with hotels, no-one lives on them because that would be stupid, it would take a couple of hours to get to the nearest shop, or anything for that matter. They were discovered by Captain Cook (like most things over here) in 17s...

We've had such a good last week. The last time I wrote I think was in Brisbane. Since then we've been to Fraser Island, stayed a night on a Cattle Farm in the middle of the Bush, and arrived here in Airlie Beach.From Brisbane we bypassed Noosa and arrived in Hervey Bay, it was a long drive - 10hours or so. But we stopped on Rainbow beach and our driver taught us how to play the digeridoo and throw a boomerang so it returns, both are harder than they look,...

Hello everyone. At the moment we are in Brisbane, half way up the East Coast of Australia, and the weather reflects that! When it's cloudy it's bearable, but the second the sun comes through you can feel it burning your skin, and this is the equivalent of early October! It's only going to continue to get hotter the further north we get. Even at night, in the dark it is still shorts and t-shirt weather. Brisbane is actually a really nice city, apparent...