SB:  Our final Greyhound journey wasn't so bad - a 10 hour journey overnight from Airlie to Cairns and we did manage to get a bit of sleep.  Gutted we missed out on the night in Airlie, but meant we had an extra day in Cairns.  Really good first impressions of Cairns (suppose the sunshine helped) and as it was their quiet season t...

We arrived in Cairns very tired! We had had to swap planes at Darwin and hadn't slept much at all on our overnight flight. We were able to get a taxi bus to the door of our hostel (Bohemia Central) which we had booked a couple of days before. When we arrived at the hostel it was pretty busy, and when we tried to check in it seemed only Mark had ...

We arrived in Cairns last Friday and met my friend Katie at the airport. We walked past each other as I was expecting her to be blonde and she was expecting me to be brunette!  We went to Trinity Beach on Saturday for lunch which was lovely and then Katie and I sloped off for an afternoon of shopping, leaving the men at home ...

We have made it to the hot, sunny part of Australia! It's lovely. Cairns is very laid back, a real chilled out, backpacker town. Arrived very late on the Tues night so checked into a slightly more expensive hostel as it was about the only one open at 1am! Wednesday was an Australian national holiday - Anzac day - which meant it was compulsory to...

The next morning we left at about 6:00am to get to the Cairns Prodive class by 8:00am where we began the learning sessions to get our Adventure scuba dive licences. What a tripout it was to be in a classroom again with Mark and TG, an unlikely threesome to be seen together in that situation. We spent the two days learning about scuba diving, hal...

We are now are officially 'Down Under'!! We were welcomed in Cairns by a sunshine and 32 degrees - this is more like it! However, our big plans for lounging on the beach were somewhat thwarted as it is currently "stinger season" or jellyfish to us. This means you can't swim in the sea without a stinger suit, unless there is a net areas cordoned ...

Well had a fantastic time here, ended up staying far longer than I thought I would and managed to nail my open water course which was far more challenging than I thought. Spent many days relaxing at the lagoon and many nights in Pj O'briens, also managed to get myself another piercing!

That is Asia over and done with now and from Ho Chi Minh we spent what seemed like forever getting to Cairns in Australia (Saigon ---> Bangkok ---> Sydney ---> Cairns). I must admit i was absolutely knackered by the end of it but thankfully the YHA hostel we were staying at was great for crashing out for a few hours before going for an ...

It's actually winter here in Australia now, but it's still quite easily sun-bathing weather here in Cairns. After just a few days in the sun, my hard-earned tan from the pacific has come right back. Well, since my last entry in Denedin, NZ, it has been quite an adventure. Most of the time was spent living out of the car, although we made a 5-nig...

Nach 3 Tagen Sydney heute in Cairns gelandet... Wenigstens ist es hier ein bisschen waermer! In den Blue Mountains hatten wir 6 Grad und sogar ein bisschen Schnee!!! Ich bin leider diese Temperaturen absolut gar nicht mehr gewoehnt und habe mir gleich mal ne fette Erkaletung eingefangen. Aber ansonsten war es dort sehr schoen. Hier in Cairns hab...