G'Day Guys,

Well I've been in Australia for nearly a month now and thought I'd send you a little update on what an amazing time I'm having as we all know everyone loves reading about other peoples travels while they sit behind their desk at work in the dull grey cold lol! So if you have deleted this email all ready I won't be offended, but if you care or really don't have anything better to do, read on…..

I've sat with 1.5million other people to watch the Sydney fireworks and can safely say they make Guy Forks night look like a cigarette lighter, climbed 142 meters up tiny steel walkways to the top of Sydney harbor bridge in the middle of the night, toured the Sydney opera house the nearest I am coming to affording a ticket to an actual opera, hiked threw the stunning Blue Mountains which actually are blue, attempted to surf proving yet again I am utterly hopeless at anything commonly known as a sport, been amongst the first people in Australia to watch the sunrise on the most easterly point, unfortunately in was cloudy, fed dolphins, saw my first kangaroo, ate my first kangaroo, learnt to throw a boomerang, gunned down clay pigeons with a shotgun, well I hit one by fluke, relived my 10 year old dream as a cowboy, mustered goats on horseback in Eucalypt forests, raced quad bikes over hair raising dirt tracks while watching the sun set and kangaroos hop past, flown over world heritage site in a tiny propeller plane so close I could lick the pilots neck had I so wished (Fraser Island), driven down endlessly straight roads with not even a slight bend to keep you sane, held crocodiles and snakes, seen sharks from a safe distance, seen jelly fish from a very unsafe distance narrowly avoiding death, snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef rich with life so beautiful I could hear almost hear David Attenborough, sailed round crystal blues seas on a multi million pound racing yacht at a constant sixty degree angle, visited one of the top five beaches in the world but could not go swimming due to the local inhabitants having a taste for human, lost the plot and spent a ridiculous sum of money on a hollow wooden pole (didgeridoo) trekked amid tropical rain forests, eucalypt forests, semi topical forests, arid forests, climbed precarious rock faces in an effort show off, seen more than enough spiders for life, weathered Cyclone Larry, driven through forest fires, eaten lime flavored ants off a tree, sampled ox tongue, freshly caught oysters and had an entirely unmemorable night on 'Bundy' rum. I've travelled over 2000 miles up the coast with a slight detour towards the middle of Australia, during which the landscape has changed from lush green plains to dry arid red earth and onto tropical rainforests reminiscent of Asia.

I've not even been here a full month but it seams like much, much longer, yet despite doing soo much there is soo much of this huge, huge country to explore. Sadly however, today I'm departing for my next adventure. Back to Asia, to explore the jungles of northern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and of course an infamous full moon party. Any recomendation for Laos and Cambodia? However, I will definitely be returning to Australia one day and recommend it.