Where to start? That is always the question when you have to tell your story. Well, my story started from a young age. Both my parents were from diverse backgrounds and my father in particular was always an adventurer and a creative person. He encouraged me to be creative, however, by the time I was…
Here I was at the tender age of 18 and still relatively naive, about to embark on my first big adventure. I’d booked flights only to Australia, I was armed with my Lonely planet guide, a 20KG backpack with sleeping bag and I was waiting with anticipation, excitement and nerves to board my Malaysian Airways…
Arrival in the late afternoon on Phillip Island was magical. I first stopped at the side of the road which had a little walkway down towards the beach overlooking the sea and I was greeted with early winter sunset. I had no idea how gorgeous this sundown would become, but you can see from the…
Welcome to Tasmania, where you end up doing double takes down the street and you’re not quite sure if you saw the same person twice!! I landed in Tasmania and it was like landing back in the UK only in the nicer countryside parts, like the Lake District or the West Country. Definitely not London.…
Departing Hobart, Tasmania. I had a very brief stop via Brisbane before flying onto Cairns. Here there was another change in travel plans. I was due to fly to Perth after my time in Cairns, however, this had to be changed due to heavy rains and a tornado hitting the West coast. This was rearranged…
The land does not belong to the Aborigines, the Aborigines belong to the land. Those of you old enough, may also remember this being mention in the film Crocodile Dundee (1986)… This is an actual fact and not the stuff of movie fiction. Uluru or more commonly known amongst tourists as Ayers Rock, isn’t just…
Returning to Cairns, I was ready for the next adventure… I was booked for scuba diving on the great barrier reef and I had no PADI license either. The reason for this is, at this point in time, it was not compulsory on such dives. However, whilst there is still no actual legal requirement to…
Departing Cairns, my first stop was briefly in Gove Peninsula as there wasn’t a direct flight to Darwin. I popped into a little newsagent at this landing strip airport and the guy behind the counter was about to give me my second thought of “I have flown 13,000 miles to find this???” The first thing…
Waking up in camp, it was a beautiful moderately warm morning with a stunning blue sky with some scattered fluffy clouds making it ever so slightly overcast. The temperature was that of a sunny spring day here in the UK, so you can forgive me for being greatly deceived by this. Once breakfast was over,…
I wake the following morning in my tent and all my chest and shoulders are burning and I feel hot… The rest of me is fine. I’d spent the previous day applying moisturiser with SPF to my face and whilst the temperatures on the Plains were that of a UK spring day, it was very…