I am now over in Queensland, East Coast Australia. After a fairly sleepless flight over from Perth we waited around for a few hours before we could check in at the hostel (to be fair we were 8 hours early!) Half hours of sleep here and there coupled with our first expensive breakfast in a long time, we finally checked in....and went straight to bed! We did however sort out quite a lot of stuff for the next few weeks of the trip. managed to sort out a day on the Great Barrier Reef (the next day) and some Whitsundays Sailing (just me though, Dan is sitting this one out). We stayed at Gilligans backpackers hostel in Cairns and it was failry cheap so no complaints there. Would recommend it but only for a few nights...the
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