by Julie

How to be like Captain Cook, not Admiral Nelson

In response to the challenge of www.justmeplease.com, here is my tip for dealing with sea-sickness: DON'T GO ON BOATS! But I jest of course. The best thing about travelling is the opportunity to do things you wouldn't normally do, and going on boat trips was one of them for me. I never even considered sea-sickness until the day I went to go snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef, from Cairns in Australia. It was a rocky enough trip and I remembered what motion sickness was then, I tell you. It was even worse when I…
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by Julie

The lucky country

These are some images from Fraser Island which is off the coast by Hervey Bay and is the largest sand island in the world. This means the internal roads are horrendous, just sand tracks and fairly nauseating for a delicate person like me. But the opposite side of the Island is fully beach, called 75 Mile Beach though it's only 72 miles long and it's a registered road so you can drive at 80k on it (pretty fast for Oz when the fastest speed on the road is 110k).  It is really cool and beautiful.…
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by Julie

Queensland indeed

The place I am staying in Cairns - or Caans as the locals pronounce it - has no internet which is a pain so I am only picking up free internet around the city. Wifi now the priority for booking accomodation! But it's beautiful here. Was up at Cape Tribulation yesterday, which was named by Captain Cook in 1770. I imagine it looked exactly the same back then.      I didn't realise that Northern Queensland was so tropical. It's basically permanent summer. It's about 30 degrees every day and it's hell on the hair.…
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