Despite the troubles I have had in Australia (stolen PSP, lost phone, travelers sickness, Credit card identiy theft, weather delays, troubles with PADI certification, booking issues with the dive boat, etc.) I am sticking it out and making the best of it.  I have been in a PADI open water dive class (yes for the second time) for the past tw...

Well actually there were no tribulations but we were going to visit Cape Tribulation so look how I've managed to craftily weave that into the title - really clever huh!  Anyway next destination was Cairns home of ... well I don't actually know what it's home of but it's the main starting point for many backpackers arriving in Oz....

We get to Cairns where it's dark and rainy, someone comes to pick us up and takes us to the hostel where we check into our ten bed dorm which smells and is rather damp but at lest it's cheap! We spend a couple of days in Cairns hiding from the rain and stocking up on supplies before we start WWOOFing. We take a bus up to Port Douglas and wait ar...

Hello, it's been a while since we last wrote a pod so have got quite a bit to catch up on! Really enjoyed our time in Sydney! From there we did a day trip to the blue mountains on which our tour guide was extremely strict but this did make it a very funny and interesting trip! The blue mountains were nice with lovely views and afterwards we had ...

Today at work Toby sent me on an adventure.  I got to work at about 7:30am this morning and was very surprised that he was not there when I got in.  At about 8:30am he comes racing in, panting, in a frenzy because his moped had gotten a puncture (aka a flat tire).  So he had to leave his moped out in Kings Cross and take the bus t...

After all the luxury of our trip to the Whitsundays it was back to reality with an overnight bus ride to Cairns. As usual we sat near the weirdos, this time hillbillies that smelt like a farmyard and shovelled crisps down their throats all night! We had a good time in Cairns despite the crew on our boat telling us it was a dive. It has a big sal...

After a six hour flight from Boston to LA, 2 hour layover, 15 hour flight to Sydney, 2 hour layover including a trip through customs and getting my passport stamped and checking my two HUGE bags BACK in for another flight,a 3.5 hour flight to Cairns, I finally made it! I remember landing in Cairns, the captain saying "Welcome to Cairns, it's a b...

The Wet Tropics is the green room of Australia. It covers only 0.2% of the Australian continent, but it shelters many of Australia's plants and animals. Over 3000 plant species can be found in the Wet Tropics as well as up to 50% of Australia's birds, a quarter of its frogs and reptiles and a third of its mammals. The rainforest contains clues t...

before i start the 4 is now a 3.. will had to do one for unknown reasons to us.. poor will! but we arrived in aus at 5 this morn! after a sleepless night on a average plane and annoying people behind us preventing sleep we got to cairns airport. aus isnt how i expected.. actually reminds me alot of the nice parts of orlando. really clean n new, ...

boys and girls, one thing you have to do before you kick the can is to visit the great barrier reef and esp the s.s yongala.My group met up and departed late at night as we sailed out in the darkness to the outer reef 40km away, again given a room with bed bugs so decided to sleep on dec. Woke up to not being able to see any land,only sea as far...