KatieD

Well I spent all day Monday resting my ankle, which was very swollen & badly bruised. Was raging because I had planned to see and do so much. An girl from Sligo called Siun came into my room on Sunday night and it turns out she's on the same flights home as me. So yesterday we both got up really early to try to book onto a Blue Mountains tour. The early morning one was booked out so we ended up booking onto one that left at 10am. As it turned out we got to go with a deluxe tour because that your wasn't full. We began with a boomerang demonstration & it really came back. Then we began our climb up into the mountains. We passed through some really pretty towns. Then we were taken ... read more

Well as the title suggests I've lots and lots of catching up to do with this blog. As I explained in my previous entry I dropped my camera into the sea in Noosa last week, but it got even better because I fell coming down a little cliff on Fraser Island and dropped it, breaking the shutter so there are no photos accompanying these entries till I get myself sorted! On top of all that 6 or 7 of my blog entries were deleted & only for Maria (Sarah's friend) I'm not sure I'd have ever got any of them back and they were all of my travels in Oz. So anyhow enough whining for now and time to catch up. Me, Niamh & Mark headed to Fraser Island last Wednesday morning. We took a ferry ... read more

I'm beginning to think that perhaps Saturdays are just good days for me on this trip, last week I had the amazing trip to the Great Barrier Reef and I honestly didn't think it could get any better than that, but today came pretty close. Again when you see the photos be prepared to be insanely jealous! Today I went sailing in the Whitsundays. It was just spectacular, total food for the soul. We first sailed out around Whitsunday island & Hook Island and then we stopped at the side of the island to take a walk up to the lookout - oh my god it was so stunning up there, really it was a feast for the eyes - I could have stayed there all day long! You could see absolutely huge stingrays just ... read more

On Monday I went to the Rialto Tower and climbed up to the top (ok in the lift!) the view was amazing there and was a lovely way to finish my trip to Melbourne. That night I cooked dinner for Sarah, Maria, Karen and Sinead and then Sarah came hopme with four lovely glittery(!) cupcakes for me with candles on them to celebrate my upcoming birthday, we just vegged for the night and watched tv, then I'd a really restless nights sleep. Got up to say goodbye to Sarah on Tuesday morning. And then left Melbourne at 12pm and caught a flight, or rather 2 flights (with a stopover in Sydney) to Cairns where I'm at right now. When we landed at 6.30pm the pilot said the temperature outside was 24 degrees!! I got a ... read more