Yet another early start today, partly due to noisy backpackers (there's no escaping them) but mainly due to an alcohol free evening of reading and relaxing. (I know!!! A Saturday night!!! How good are we??) We decided to put some credit on our Aussie phones and take our ever - growing book of phone work contacts down to the lagoon and try phonin...

Considering when I think of Australia I think of dry and extremely hot weather, I have been surprised that we are always running away from the rain. Of course when you are a tourist in a country, you just want the weather to participate. When every stop you make there is an island to see, you want the weather to participate even more. The thing ...

I hate hate hate the feeling of wool on my teeth. Eeuugh. Christ I hate it. Apparently the Australian Estuarine Crocodile hates it too. Strolling along a deserted beach in Far North Queensland about 9am the other morning I came across two shrimp fisherman in the shallows. One of the guys was sweltering in a thick knit Christmas jumper and I just...

Ey you guys, Lots has happened since we last blogged. We drove for 6 hours from Brisbane to Rockhampton and stopped in Bundaberg for lunch on the way. The drive was very pleasant and was on roads through forests and mountains. It was much better than being on a British motorway. We have some photos but are in a net cafe now so will only get a co...

We got an extra hour when we arrived at Airlie Beach, due to the time change between New South Wales and Queensland, which was great cos gave us extra time to settle in. We landed at 6ish, and were confronted with one small landing strip and one building in the middle of forests....wow! We're definatly in Australia now. Getting off the plane we ...

We've been in Australia for one month now and the gloss is starting to come off. Australia has a number of things wrong with it that begin to grate a bit after a while. Firstly while the place has some of the most spectacular natural beauty that you could wish for the man made additions to this are sorely lacking. With the odd exception the majo...

Once again, many apologies for the delay. Would it make you feel any better to learn that I have actually been working? After departing from Magnetic Island we returned to Townsville once more in order to catch out Greyhound coach to Airlie Beach. When we arrived at the hostel the first thing I noticed was a sign saying there is a quiz every eve...

Arrived in from our 13 hour 'red eye' bus journey (talk about comfort!). we figured we could have driven from the top of ireland to the bottom of ireland and back again in the same time! it was long! We cheated and checked into a hotel on the beach front it was lovely, we hadn't showered in 3 days from fraser so we needed a little luxury! Guess ...

On the morning of our journey we picked up our hire car very early and started out on the 750 km drive down to Arlie Beach. The weather was a bit crazy and would pour down with torrential rain every half an hour or so. After one of these down pours we noticed a big crack down the centre of the windscreen. Needless to say we were really stressed ...

After saying bye to the boys we started our 17 hour bus journey back up North! We were so tired that we slept for most of the way. We arrived at Mackay, the car was still at the airport where we left it - few! We then had to drive the car back to Airlie, the boys trusted us to make the transaction with a lady who wanted to buy the car off them. ...