Highs & Lows

Well what a week! And today its not the typical hello from a very suuny airlie beach but a hello from a very wet and soggy Ellen!

Last week started out great and we had a fantastic trip to Fraser Island, I had so much fun, it was such a beautiful place with beautiful weather and great people and we had loads of fun on a self drive 4WD around the island for a couple of nites. We camped on the beach (very basic!!) but was great and didnt get attacked by a dingo which is always a bonus! Although im still not sure what i would have done if i had been caught squatting by a dingo....answers on a postcard!!!

Unfortunatly this weekend hasnt gone to plane and our trip to the Whitsundays was cut short because of Cyclone Ellie that is hitting the Townsville and Cairns area at the moment, we are a few hours south but getting the tail ends although it feels like some one has turned the tap on and it aint going anywhere! so no, fear not we are not caught up in the searing heat or bush fires, we are in a very very wet Queensland and just will be lucky to get out of Airlie tomorrow as planned! It sounds like the main roads a bit further north are the problem and although we still have to get up to Cairns to fly out, we are pretty flexible over the next week as to how and when we get there! But when they say wet season it really is wet! Oh well, I havent even seen rain like this at Glasto!

So the boat trip wasnt what i quite had in mind, the first afternoon everybody felt pretty rough but did manage to get out for a snorkel and thats still pretty cool to say i snorkled on the great barrier reef i suppose !! :-) The crew were really good and the food great (although Jen suffered more than i did!) Yesterday after a snorkel in the morning we were called back in and so have just spent today getting wetter and wetter moving from hostel to hostel and trying to stake a claim for some compensation (which were kind of succesful in), checking weather and buses!

It is the first major thing not to go quite to plan on my trip (the photos look more like Milford Sound in NZ than teh postcards that are for sale here at the Whitsundays!) but hey ho, its just another thing to add on my list for next time :-) and its all part of the adventure!!

Spirits are low today but im sure they will pick up again soon, i cant wait to get over to the west coast now! I think the east will need a re run at some point, anybody up for that?!! ;-)

Hope your not all too cold, it sounds like everybody has bad weather at the moment! Wrap up warm and i will don the waterproof!

xxx