am mi, 31.10. war alles ein bisschen komisch auf dem weg nach tennant creek. an einem roadhouse (das ist sowas wie eine tankstelle mit hotel, motel, zeltplatz, restaurant) hat sich der besitzer total angestellt, weil wir die toilette benutzen wollten (das war bisher noch nie so), an einem anderen roadhouse habe ich keinen gratiskaffee ...

Hi All Here a run down of the trip so far. Arriving in Cairns into the sweltering heat the lagoon by the sea was a welcome sight. After a few days in Cairns and alot of parting i headed north to Cape Tribulation. This is into the heart of the rain forest jungle and really was a nice change from the burnt desert i was used to seeing out in WA. Th...

Well my room mates persuaded me to go on the 'Ultimate Party Pub Crawl', which was predicatbly shit.  I am way too old to be cruising round Cairns in an open top bus with music blaring.  Far too old.  That said there were plenty of young, nubile, scandinavian girls there which kind of made it easier. The evening started badly, as ...

On Wednesday the 1st I worked all day with Cho (Korean guy). It was a hard day, with lots of rooms to clean. We worked from 9am to 5:30pm. Back at the hostel I talked to an Irish man from Roscommon. He was studying fossils in Australia and was in Cairns for conference and some training. Later that evening I watched the movie The Termin...

Touchdown Cairns, Australia! It may have been 8am, Aussie time, an unspeakable hour of the morning in Malaysian time, but *how* excited was I to be here! Outside the airport, the weather was impossibly perfect; blue sky, bright sun, and none of the sticky Asian humidity. After the most stringent of immigration checks (being sniffed at by dogs an...

Gooday mate from OZ Last time i spoke to you all i was awaiting my plane in Singapore Airport. What you don't know is instead of forwarding my bag to jet Star, either Cathy Pacific Airlines or Singapore Airport lost my bag & only informed me of this an hour before my flight was due to leave for Australia, i had been there 9 hours. Because or...

So we ditched Melb and took the 3 hour flight up to Cairns. In the taxi on the way to the first hostel (more on that in a min) I could not believe I was still in the same country. From going from a city with a pretty beach to a place thats so humid & streets lined with palm tree's.. I swear i thought I was on a tropical island. Its so surrea...

Hey everyone Well, like we predicted there was no internet at our cabin in the rainforest, sorry about that. We took at taxi to our car rental place, Cairns Older Car Rentals, at 8:30am. This rental company is also a mechanic store so they rent out older cars, but they're still in great shape. This way they can charge less so it was only $30 a d...

Our flight to Cairns left this morning at 6, and once again after yet another night of no sleep (too many parties) I managed to get myself onto the shuttle bus along with a few of us from the previous tour. The journey lasted for couple of hours and I managed to sleep on the plane, which is a first for me. Once we landed in Cairns I managed to f...

  Finally we've got to Australia after Morty questioning whether or not we would ever actually leave Bali. Everywhere we've been so far has greeted our arrival with torrential rain and Cairns was no exception. Welcome to Queensland, Australia. Decided that in view of the weather, we would take our first taste of Australian beer and commen...