Land's End to John O'Groats in 2 days......

Not really of course, I'm in Australia! But its about the same distance as the monstrous drive I embarked on a few days ago, from Airlie Beach to Brisbane. After about 14 hours solid driving, a speeding fine (when I wasn't even speeding!) and a lot of coffee, I arrived in Brisbane. I met up with Rieta and Rose, who I met in the town of 1770, and we all caught up.

The next day we drove to a place called O'Reillys, at the top of a mountain in Lamington National Park. We were right up in the clouds so it was nice and cool for a change :) The area was really green and lush, with lots of wildlife and walking tracks. There was a 'tree top walk', which was a long walkway, high up in the trees. There was also a big tree you could climb, to reach a treehouse-type thing with great views. Near the carpark was an area filled with colourful parrots. You could take some grain and they'd fly over, perch on your head, hand or shoulder, and eat the grain!

We camped over that night and the next morning went to a place called Tamborine, to see glow worms. There was a big $1m artificial cave that had been constructed just to house glow worms. We walked into this pitch black cave and marvelled at the thousands of little lights on the walls and ceiling. Looking up was like looking at little blue-green star constellations!

I was just emailed the pictures of our whitewater rafting session. None of us wanted to pay the ridiculous prices for the pictures so we all clubbed together and got them on CD and one of the guys emailed them around. I'll be chilling out in Brissy for a few days then its off to Noosa!




Halfway up the mountain we came across an Alpaca (small llama-type animal) farm!



Me and my mate the parrot, aaarrrgggh!



From the treehouse, looking down at the walkway



These little wallabies were everywhere, infact I almost ran over one of them....it saw the car and ran twards it instead of the opposite way....I don't think they are very clever!



Just about to conquer the first big rapid



I thought it was a good idea to sit at the front of the boat, but found myself underwater most the time!



Our crew. The guys on the far right and left were the guides, they basically did everything when we were were going down the rapids and forgot our training!



The biggest rapid, we practically fell 3 meters!