Australia Five - Salty Dog Sea Kayaking

In Airlie Beach we booked a half day tour with Salty Dog Sea Kayaking but weren't sure if it was going to go ahead as the weather had been getting quite windy. In the end, it did happen which I'm…

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Australia Four - Great Barrier Reef

...with Ocean Freedom!Another early start this morning- up at 6am again. Our booking included hotel pick-up which then dropped us at the Ferry Fleet Terminal in Cairns. We checked in for our reef cruise and boarded the Ocean Freedom catamaran.…

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Australia Three- Billy Tea Safari

..to the Daintree and Cape TribulationThe second day trip we went on from Cairns was with a company called "Billy Tea Safaris". They came highly recommended as a tour company offering small personalised 4WD trips that are guaranteed to run even with…

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Run Beki Run

Hello! :)I hope you're all enjoying watching the Olympics- there's such brilliant coverage on the BBC, you can literally watch every single sport, every single event, and not miss a moment. This means that you could quite easily spend all…

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Australia Two - Kuranda

Whilst in Cairns we booked several day trips. The first of which was up to Kuranda, a village 25km northwest of Cairns surrounded by World Heritage Rainforest that you can visit by train, and then journey back down in a…

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Australia One - Singapore

Or The Journey to Australia... I left for Australia on a Sunday following a torrential thunderstorm which had left Elspeth, Amelia and I running the 100m from the coffee shop to my front door. Elspeth kindly gave me a lift…

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