Take a long walk out to the rum distillery today (it's worth it, believe me!) and take the guided tour around. It's fairly impressive but not quite as good as going around the Brugal Rum Distillery in the Dominican Republic many years ago. --

Booked a tour to go out to Mon Repos tonight. This is where the turtles come up onto the beach to lay their eggs: This is the second we saw, we were later told that 8 turtles came up onto the beach that night.

Last part of the bus trip... Departed Bundaberg on the 0725 bus and this time the bus was actually good: plenty of room and the air-con worked adequately - what more can you ask for :-) Arrived in Brisbane at 1400 hours and stayed at the Explorers Inn just up the road ...

Early start at 0630 from the Roma Street station and only a 5 hour train ride to Coffs Harbour. Booked into the Caribbean Motel for two nights and then went down the dive centre to see about getting some diving in tomorrow. Fortunately they had extra people diving so they were ...

Went for a run around a park in Beverly Hills today - there's a track around the outside that's about 1km! Only problem is there's a couple of magpies in the trees and at this time of year they attack you! A good run in 29 degrees of heat but ...

Ah well, back in cold, cold blighty once more. Just over two weeks to Christmas and lots of stuff to sort out...

A few have to leave Airlie Beach as soon as we moor up but the rest of us meet up in Beaches that night: -- --

Said goodbye to Tony, Gez and Amelia last night - they've been a great help over the last few months and I'll miss them. Got a taxi to the airport and got stung on excess baggage at check-in! $32/kilo and got charged for 8 kilos (which was considerably less than it ...

Have hired a car for a couple of weeks and am going to go and do a bit of touring for a while. Pick the car up tomorrow morning and I'm going to head off to Canberra for the weekend and then probably drive the other way up to Brisbane at ...

Have booked my flight down to Sydney, it's the red-eye special at 0130 hours so that'll be fun. A four-and-a-half hour flight getting in after 6 am. My friends, Tony and Gez, said they'd put me up (again :-) for a few days whilst I sort my gear out to go ...