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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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Holiday Time!

I was intending to keep blogging while I was away in Australia, and although I've taken heaps of photos and started writing a few posts I've decided to take a temporary hiatus. I want to make sure that I do…

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