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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Outback
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These are photos of our van after driving through the outback for two days. Most of this mess was caused when we hit a grasshopper plague. Grasshoppers sit on the road – presumably because of the heat it gives off – lazing the day away, until we come along and they panic and try to jump or fly away. Instead they jump and fly into us, creating a mess that stunk of, well, grass. It looks like we’ve gone through just-cut grass, but what you see there is all grasshopper, my friends.
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Queensland

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Staying With Louise
Rupert writes
We had met Louise and her daughter, Isla, in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Having shared the unforgettable tiger cuddling experience we all had something to talk about, and after exhausting that topic it turned out they were heading to Bangkok on the same day as us and needed transport, so jumped on our bus (although we nearly left without them! But that’s another story). It also turned out that we were heading in the same direction as Louise in about a months time. To Cairns, Australia.
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Daintree and Kuranda

Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Daintree Rupert writes PICT5530 Keep going past Cairns and you reach the tropical rainforest of Daintree. To sum up Daintree in one word I would have to use 'fresh'. Because that's what you feel, what ... [Continue reading this entry]