I'm going to make this blog about the evacuation centre short and sweet. It's been and gone so the passion of my dislike for the situation has been extinguished. Time is a healer as they say! The Stocklands Shopping Centre which served as our make shift cyclone proof home, was smaller than St Georges Shopping Centre back home in Preston. Crammed in to this space were approx 2,500 - 3,000 people. Originally there were supposed to be 2000. Along with these people ...

Well.... Well.... Well..... PRE CYCLONE YASI!!!!!!!! After already encountering (not first hand mind) the devestating natural disaster of the Queensland floods. We rescheduled our trip so that rather than travel up the East Coast we would fly to Cairns and travel down. *Mistake Number 1* As previously blogged, the weather at first was not what we expected from Australia - We highly underestimated what was yet to come in Cairns "Cyclone Season". *Mi...

Well this is going to be a big one! I should also say a very Happy New Year to all. I'm afraid I'm not as up to date as I should be with the blog so a lot has to be said for the adventures we have already encountered... Currently we are in Cairns. It's the wet season and boy oh boy is it just that! The positive however, is that it serves as a home from home and you don't get as homesick. But it's pretty grim when its rainy in Oz as naively you expect the sun t...

Well this is going to be a big one! I should also say a very Happy New Year to all. I'm afraid I'm not as up to date as I should be with the blog so a lot has to be said for the adventures we have already encountered... Currently we are in Cairns. It's the wet season and boy oh boy is it just that! The positive however, is that it serves as a home from home and you don't get as homesick. But it's pretty grim when its rainy in Oz as naively you expect the sun t...