After the flight to Brisbane got cancelled I was assured that all connections would be considered and taken care of. I couldn't get too upset--spent another day in Singapore and was put up in a fancy hotel that I would have never put myself in and fed all day. Not to mention that getting upset wouldn't have fixed the plane! I even got a free int...

On our return to Cairns we booked in to a different hostel calle Gilligans. The facilities at this hostel were probably the best I've ever seen with a posh kitchen on each floor, all the dorms ensuite and a pool, bar and nightclub. The 3 of us had a 6 bed dorm to our selves which was pretty cool as we had to be up early each day for the dive cou...

After a week of drunken debauchery we decided we should maybe branch out in our activites this week... well slightly anyway! Week got off to a great start, on Monday night we headed down to the lagoon for an evening 'beach' bbq. Originally there was gonna be about 4 or 5 of us, soon word got round and because we're so damn great we had about 20 ...

We only had a few days in Cairns so never got to explore as much as we would have liked, it was a lovely place though with heaps of bars, restaurants and a casino where jase won $150, whoo hoo!!! We have decided to hire a car and travel down the East coast all the way down to Brisbane stopping in at the various attractions along the way, that sh...

The kilometers were endless. Tearing along dusty golden highways of the Northern Territory, we pull off for a necessary stop to appease our struggling bladders. The roadhouse (Aussie gas station/food joint) was the only remnant of "civilization" in this strange area. We enter, flip through some lonely, outdated CD's, and make our swift way to th...

Today was our last "free" day before we head to Perth and actually have to think about starting to teach. It was a drizzly morning, so we decided to take a walk and maybe hang out on the beach at low tide (about 1:30pm). So we did a 9km loop from the beach house to Mason's store and swimming hole along the road and then back along the beach. We ...

13 hours after we leave Perth we finally land in Cairns and check in to the YHA Esplanade. We spend time here booking all of our trips and the travel down the east coast. We've got a few days here before and after all of our side trips and we manage to hook up with Sarah and Tony and Becky and Paul again. Spend time chilling out by the lagoon an...

Tom showed up at Beaches right on cue on New Year's Day. I was laying in the hammock by the "pool" (more like a well), and he walked by me twice before I was able to jump up and get his attention. At first I wasn't 100% sure it was him; it was immediately amazing, and simultaneously strange, to see a friend's face in person. For the past three m...