Hey! Just about to leave Cairns so i thought id fill you in on what iv been doing for the past week. Leaving Perth was really hard. I really did just love it there. Check in at the airport was a bit weird! I had to check in on a little computer and then just drop my bag off! It took about 2 minutes!!! lol! Then on the plane i got a whole row of ...

Well after our final stay in Townsville we caught a greyhound coach up to the city of Cairns (which took 6 hours). The scenery on the way to Cairns was completely different to all the terrain we had seen before and what we were expecting Australia to be like. Outside the bus instead of the dry, arrid, red land we had been used to on Star Downs, ...

The next part of our adventure took us to the picturesque rainforest aboriginal village of Kuranda set in the Great Dividing Range. After getting a free transfer to the skyrail station on the edge of the city, we rode the 7.5km (4.7mile) cableway in a small suspended gondola, up into the rainforest high above the cannopy. It was stunning, the vi...

Hey everyone! Our next tour took us up to the small, rich, luxurious, celebrity filled, costal resort village of Port Douglas home to the famous nine mile beach. The mini bus picked us up early and drove us along the winding costal roads with amazing views of the various beaches and seaside stops along the way. We arrived and decided to take a t...

Hey everyone! After our amazing snorkelling experience on the reef it was time to leave Cairns on the monday 18th December we had a midday flight to Sydney. Cairns was... as we have described, an incredible city. More like a big seaside resort tourist town than a city, it was friendly and we would highly recommend Rosies backpackers in Cairns- t...

Spending a couple of days in Cairns trying to decide what we're going to do in Queensland. We're staying at Rosie's backpackers which is the most backpackerish place we've stayed to date (that's not a good thing...). Still, only for a couple of nights. I'd forgotten how picturesque this part of the world is with the rainforest coming right down ...

Arrived in Cairns quite late last night. Went for a dander about the city today and went up to Clifton beach which was about 40 mins bus trip from Cairns. Didnt realise the beaches were as far out. Was quite a nice beach and really quiet. Cairns is a crazy city. All the roads are long and straight and 90 degrees to each other. The city just seem...

Went out to the Great Barrier reef today. Had intended being cheapie cheap and just go out and snorkel but when listening to the crew go on about the diving, the itch got the better of me and forked out. Well worth it though. Only down for about 20 mins at a time but it was incredible to be faffin about under the water and exploring the reef and...

Travelled a good bit out from Cairns to the Russell River today for the rafting adventure. Really interesting journey passing all the sugar cane fields and mountains and rainforests and stuff. Arrived at the river where we had to trek through the rainforest carrying the backpacks with the inflatable rafts and the other gear up to the starting po...

Today was another travel day. The first thing I did when I woke up was to go to the post office. I had to mail home my camel bones. Hopefully they won't be too smelly by the time they get to my house. Other than that, it wasn't too exciting of a day. When I got to Cairns (pronounced "CANS" by the Aussies), I didn't have a place to stay. I met a ...

hi alle zusammen, die letzten tage bis zu meinem abflug am samstag abend rücken immer näher.. langsam gehts ans koffer packen und das restliche "lebensnotwenige" zeugs besorgen ;) meine skepsis darüber wie es wohl sein wird,ein ganzes jahr weg von zu hause.. hat sich mittlerweile überwiegend in pure freude verwandelt! =) natürlich fällt es mir s...

I came back down to Cairns with my friend Chantal from PK's in Cape Trib - she's doing her PADI Open Water with Pro Dive here. Anyway, our first few days we didn't really do much at all, just chilled out, ate sushi & McDonalds & went to the cinema!! Such an exciting life I lead!! Bumped into some other guys we met up at PK's too (Kris &a...

My epic Oz experience started off, rather dully, in Cairns. The sun was shining, the weather was sweet but all i could do was sleep. It was as if the month of red bull swigging and minimal sleep had finally caught up on me, and for my three days in Cairns i probably slept for three quarters of it. This was no great shame though, as in the times ...

Hey Everybody, so been back in Alaska for almost two weeks, slowly getting things crossed off on my to do list, seeing friends, and pretty much hanging out, maybe to much. So figure I'd better finish off my journal so it's all said and done. Anchorage just got a bunch of snow this last week, so it has warmed up from the freezing temperatures of ...