The East Coast!

..... now then I haven't written this in a long while so I will try to keep it brief.
If you have all been taking a peek at my pics then you will already know what we have been doing the past 3 months. The trip down the east coast has been amazing so much fun, quite sad it is over. So in the past 3 months we have been to..........

CAIRNS - Where it rained for the whole week, nearly anyway. Met Joe, Caz, Ben & Alex in Cairns (Cairns Crew). They were our room mates in Gilligans hostel and turned out to become really good friends of ours who we are hopefully gonna see lots of when we return home. Met Lisa & Kathryn in Cairns which was great as well. We went White Water Rafting on the Tully, which was the best fun ever and I have the scar to prove it (had a slight argument with a big tree branch). Spent a day snorkeling on the great barrier reef & found Nemo. We also had the best night out for Paddy's Day, which turned out to be quite drunken.

MAGNETIC ISLAND - After Cairns we headed to Maggie Island with Kathryn & Lis. Here we went jet Skiing around the top of the Island and we also hired and beach buggy and drove all around the Island. We went walking in the bush and saw a wild Koala which was pretty cool. That's where we said goodbye to Kathryn as the next time we would see her was home sniff sniff!

AIRLIE BEACH - Airlie beach was where we caught our boat to the Whitsundays. We went on the British Defender for a trip around the Whitsundays for a two day two night trip. It was so much fun, the crew were great, the group of folk we had were really nice and I haven't ate so much food in the space of 2 days as I did on that boat. Th weather was lovely although a bit cloudy. Whithaven beach was absolutely beautiful I have never seen such an amazing beach. There were thousands of little crabs migrating from the sand to the water when we got onto Whithaven beach as well, so cool. The British Defender turned into a Party boat at night where there were several litres of goon consumed, fun & games. The Easter Bunny also found us out at sea and we got an Easter egg. Met Jo & Hannah on the Whitsundays, great girls miss them. Met up with the Cairns crew in Airlie Beach as well, good to see them again.

FRASER ISLAND - This was the best trip ever. We stayed at Dingo's had our briefing for the trip and met our little family for the weekend. Our group consisted of Irish and Hong Kong folk. We had the best weekend. It was a self drive tour of Fraser Island and I got to drive the big 4x4 and it was so much fun, felt I could drive through everything. The roads are the beach its very weird. It rained very heavily the first day & night but once we were all wet and got the beers out we soon forgot about the rain. The next day we went to Lake Mckenzie which is the most gorgeous fresh water lake, it was warmer in the lake than outside. That night it was nice and dry, we played ultimate Frisbee and we had the most beautiful sunset. The goon and beers made another appearance that night and we played numerous drinking games. The next day with fuzzy heads we headed to lake Wabby. It was liking walking through the desert to get there sand dunes and fields everywhere. We returned to Rainbow beach that day for a well needed shower. The whole weekend was such a laugh and giggle.

NOOSA - We went to Noosa for a couple of days just to relax for a bit. It was great there, lovely beach and a fabby hostel. We didn't do very much here hung out on the beach really for 3 days.

BRISBANE - Brisbane was the reunion city. Met up with Karen, Jean, Suz, Jenna , Lisa & Jennifer and hung out with them lots. Jennifer kindly gave us her unit for the week and she went to stay at her cousin's. It was so good having a home to live in for a while. We went to the XXXX brewery tour with Jean, Karen & Lis which was quite good. We all got 4 free beers after the tour, but me & the girls didn't really like many of them but Joe refused to leave until he had drunk all the free beers - he was a little tipsy when we left. With Jean & Karen we headed to Wet'n'Wild for the day in the rain so it was extra wet!! It was really good fun though and we made Karen go on rides she didn't want to, but she luved them after she had been on. Met up with the Cairns crew again and had a mad night out with them it was so good to see them again in Brissy. We hung out with Jennifer's cousin one day and Joe played golf with him, that night we ended up staying at Jennifer's cousins - too much beer again! We hired a car one weekend and went to watch Suz play hockey on the Saturday. That Sat night we had a girly night out which was the best fun, I had missed the girls lots. The day after slightly hungover Me, Joe, Lis & Suz headed to Australia Zoo. We had such a good day. The crocs were massive and I luved the Wombats . All in all we had a great couple of weeks in Brissy and I was so upset to say goodbye to the girls.

BYRON BAY - Byron Bay was 1 of my favourite places in Oz. We hung out with the Cairns crew and Wally (Heather) the whole week and we had such a blast. We went to Nimbin one day on the Grasshopper tour. That is the most surreal place I have ever been to so strange, all you can smell is weed everywhere. That was a strange but giggly day! We hung out at the beach alot, I shopped too much buying a pair of Uggs and designer sunglasses while in Byron. We walked up to the light house one day and we were at the most Easterly point of Australia. We had several nights out in Byron and just had such a good week hanging out with the guys and Caz & Wally.

SYDNEY - Well in Sydney we turned into Typical tourists going on the open top tour bus and visiting all the touristy places. We visited the Chinese gardens in Darling Harbour, the Sydney Opera House & Sydney Harbour Bridge. We went to Manly one day and had fish'n'chips on the beach. We also went to Bondi and hung out on the beach. We headed out one night to Darling Harbour and Cargo with Wally & Rosie, that was a good night out. We also spent a lovely but cold day up in the Blue Mountains, we even got snowed on up there for a split minute. Hanging out lots with the Cairns crew and we had our last night out with them and went for a hug pot of Mussels. Gonna miss them all heaps & heaps, our reunion is in London when we get back.

ORANGE - After Sydney we went to Orange for a couple of days which is 3 hours west of Sydney. We went here to visit Joe's old school master from Strath Allan school. We stayed with him and his wife and 2 boys. We had a relaxing couple of days. They kindly gave us the car to use one day and we drove around Orange went on walks around the lakes and mountains. It was a lovely relaxing couple of days.

MELBOURNE - Melbourne is where we are now. We are here for 3 months working and getting some pennies together for the next leg of our trip. We have been to all the markets and the Melbourne Museum walked around the city and tested a few pubs . Been to Geelong to Visit my Auntie and moved into our new flat on Southbank. Last weekend I celebrated my 25th and went to Geelong for a wee birthday party. I am working at the Royal Melbourne and Joe has got a job with a civil engineering company which he is enjoying. The weather is a little cool for my liking but it is winter here. We both really like it here and are gonna enjoy being here for a few months.

So that's our travels up-to-date really, so until New Zealand in August ..............

Hope you are all grand miss you all xx