After an awesome 6 weeks, we've finally left Asia and are now in Oz. After more overnight travelling, we arrived in Cairns at something like 6 in the morning, I don't really remember, and headed off to immigration. Let the good first impressions of Australia start! Somehow, at two possible places to get stopped, we mananged to get stopped 3 times, and the final and in my opinion funnest time was the last, when they searched literally everything in all 3 of our bags....good times! After that we headed off to the Calypso Hostel, where after trying to briefly battle the tiredness in the pool for a bit, we all gave up and went to bed, Si managing a hugely respectable 28 hours (more of a small coma than a sleep) and me and Bish only
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