missing a connection

I typed up entries for the last 10 days or so yesterday thinking I had a connection for the laptop, but in the end the connection didn't work. So the entries are locked away on a hard drive without a 'net connection.

They'll get up eventually, but for now:

We headed North from Sydney to Byron Bay, where we met up with some Irish friends we'd met in New Zealand. Hung out on the beach - winter weather here isn't bad. It's been 75 and sunny every day.

From Byron we've continued North - spent the weekend in Brisbane and today moved up the coast to Hervey Bay. Tomorrow we're booked for a day trip to see Fraser Island, apparently the world's largest sand island (complete with lakes and rainforest) and then further up the coast for a three-day sailing trip around the Great Barrier Reef.

From there we'll head further up to Cairns, then into the Outback to see Uluru (Ayer's Rock) before returning to Sydney and flying on to Bangkok.