This entry is more a diary than a TravelBlog. If this upsets you in anyway don’t read it. 7th May – 3,700 km / 2,300 miles in a day. Goodbye from Allan and Mary. Bus ride from Tully to Cairns: $22, takes 2 hours. Waiting an hour at the bus terminal. It’s a nice day and it’s outside. Ride from Cairns bus terminal to the airport: $12 (because the driver doesn’t have enough change from $20 to give me the ride for $10) Flight from Cairns to Perth: $425, five hours. Kim’s waiting for me at the airport and it’s very good to see him. Lancelin still smells of seaweed and the smell hits me as soon as I get out of the car. Add the sounds of the waves on the beach and maybe it’s ... read more

I’m stationary and looking for work and not a lot is happening in my world. This is more diary than TravelBlog and if this offends you don’t read it. 24th April Walk into town and read my book whilst they practice the ANZAC ceremony. Town is busy with people. Almost make it back before Mary picks me up and takes me to her place for chicken and chips. Across to Julies in the evening. Get invited to the lakes for the weekend. 25th April – ANZAC Day Up at 06h00 and at Julie’s for before seven. Julie drives us to Babinda. We have to drive up a ‘No Entry’ street to get to the Paintball. Reds (my team) win. Highlights include; Callum leaving bruises on my arm, me shooting Callum in the neck (it’s the funniest ... read more

I’m going to be stopping in Tully for a while to earn some money so this is going to read more like a diary than a travel blog. If this offends you don’t read it. 10th April Cane toads and bananas for breakfast. The bananas are on toast, the cane toads are outside being poisonous and nothing to do with breakfast. There's talk about lottery tickets what to do with $3,000,000. What would I do; give up my job, travel the world, buy a bigger house? Jess (Andy's grand-daughter) arrives and takes Sandra across the road to turn her into a zombie. I put my washing on and go across for acid burns and a tattoo. There's fresh home baked scones (with cream) and the rest of the family. We run Jess out for a human ... read more

27th March Matthias and I carry on north. I get Matthias to take me to Redland Bay and after a bit of trial and error we find the Island Ferry. Buying my ticket ($16.60 return) I gain an hour from daylight savings. I say goodbye to Matthias and am on my own again. It's a short ferry ride and then I'm on Karragarra. I have no idea where I'm going. Somewhere at the bottom of my bag is Geoff's address, probably. I remember it's on Treasure Island Avenue, but where's that? I pick a direction and walk, until a lady on a golf cart pulls up alongside me and asks if I want a lift. Unfortunately Treasure Island Ave. runs the whole lenght of the island and I don't know which end I want. She only ... read more

7th March - last night in a bed for a while? Just noticed that all the entries I wrote until now for March had '#th February' as the title. Times flies. Wake early. Not sure if it'sthe banging in the corridor, the noise outside, the couple in the bunk beneath me cuddling or others in the room getting dressed. Wash, dress and check-out. I don't even bother with the free food. Lug my bag (25 kgs?) across town and ask for a bed at the Metro YHA (place I stayed last time I was in Melbourne). No beds in 8-person dorms so I take a bed ina a 4-bed ($32). I can't check-in until noon/one so I leave my luggage (another $2) and head to the library. I want to fix my laptop and upload some ... read more