Wednesday, 30 May 2007

The 3000km sprint

Cairns to Melbourne in 3 weeks - Go!

Had a few days in Cairns with some diving on the great barrier reef, and managed to find some sharks and a turtle, which was awesome - they're much easier to find here than in thailand, and the reef is amazing :)

After that I had the first of my 4 overnight coaches that take me remarkably quickly down a remarkably long coastline over the next few weeks. I'm in a place called Airlie beach, from where you can get a sailing boat out to the Whitsunday islands - I head off in a few hours. Because I didn't book very far in advance, the really cheap boats were all booked up, so I've got the slightly more expensive (but far more fun) reconditioned 85' racing yacht. Oh yes.

Back on shore in a few days, when I'll be hot-footing down to Fraser island, for a few more days of driving about on a 4x4 down a highway that happens to also be a beach, dodging dingoes.

Oz seems well expensive after Asia, but I'm not here all that long so I'm trying not to worry about it too much :) There's plenty of distractions...


Will.
(Airlie beach, Oz)

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