Cairns is just a long line of backpackers and motels interspersed with Irish pubs and tourist information centres. Needless to say I stayed just long enough to take a boat … Continue readingYou Can Lick Their Bums Apparently

From Airlie beach it is only a few hours up to Townsville, which is a pretty small and uninspiring place. On the plus side it does have magnetic island just … Continue readingMagnetic Island

2 days, 2 nights on the world conquering Kiwi boat previously known as Ondine VII. We sailed out on choppy seas with occasional rain, thinking that this was going to … Continue readingThe Boomerang

It was raining when I got to Hervey Bay, I had wanted to go on a 2 day self drive tour, but as there wasn’t a tour group I could … Continue readingHervey Bay & Bundy Rum

Amazingly enough there are actually people living on the island which is both small and sandy, I took a 2 day camping tour that started off with sandboarding in ‘the … Continue readingMorton Island

The Blues and roots festival at Byron bay is now in its 21st year and at 5 day long the longest music festival I have been to, it’s still much … Continue readingBlues and roots festival

I’ll skip Melbourne I’ve already been there twice and only stayed one night and then it was the bus to Batemans Bay. Craig and Anna got up at an absurd … Continue readingBateman to Byron (the 2 bays)

I flew out to Hobart on Sunday 7th March and arrived in beautiful sunshine and spent the afternoon wandering around the harbour. About the most interesting thing about Hobart was … Continue readingVan Deiman’s Land

I took the train up to the Blue Mountains for a bit of bush walking, I’d been told that the weather can change at short notice in the Blue Mountains … Continue readingBlue Mountains

Having left Sydney (for almost the last time), I can now take some time and reflect on what happened over the past few months. I arrived in Sydney around the … Continue readingSydney (the LP Version)