We have arrived in Oz

Helllooo everyone,

Very sorry for the lack of updates on the blog, we have still been putting all our photos up here, however we have become somewhat slack when it comes to writing about what we have been doing but we figured that the pictures pretty much tell it!

To summarise the last couple of months...after Laos we headed back to Thailand where we bummed for about 6 weeks-was heaven! Rob and Sarah and Maz and Anne Marie and the kids came out to see us which was amazing. We found a beautiful remote island called Koh Ngai where we stayed for a couple of weeks and then spent a few days on Koh Phi Phi, which was pretty but very commercial. After a tearful farewell we headed to an even more beautiful island called Koh Lipe. We cannot recommend that place enough, it was stunning! White white sandy beaches and the clearest water we had ever seen, hence we stayed there for another couple of weeks! We were there with our good friends Tim and Sophia and the 4 of us had a ball!

After Thailand we headed to Malaysia where the 4 of us met up with another great friend, Tom. The 5 of us where then traveling together for about 4 weeks. We spent a few nights in KL which is a great city and fab shopping before flying over to Borneo. Borneo was probably our highlight of the trip so far, so untouched and the scenery was just stunning. It had the most incredible wildlife, beaches, rain forests...I could go on and on! Our 1st stop was to a place called Sipaden where we did lots of diving, it is one of the top 10 dive sites in the world and my god it was good! We were diving with sharks, turtles, whales, sting rays, just amazing. After Sipaden we headed to the jungle and lived there in an organised tour for 3 days, it was a real experience, living amongst Orangutans, monkeys, crocodiles etc, you really get back down to basics-no washing for 3 days!!From there we traveled to Mount Kinabalu where believe it or not we actually climbed to the top! It was a v v hard couple of days and I don't think we would ever do it again but we're both very glad that we did it. We then flew to Sarawak, the southern provence of Borneo and stayed in a lovely city there called Keching. We met some other great people in the guest house where we were staying and ended up partying very hard with them! We also went to Bako national park whilst we were there which was again, very beautiful.

From Borneo we flew to Singapore where we stayed with some friends for a few days. Singapore is a really great city so we had a lot of fun there. After 3 days in Singapore it was time to say goodbye to Asia and hello to Oz! We arrived into Cairns which is a horrible place so got out of there pretty smartish. We bought a car and drove all the way down the east coast, passing through some amazing places on the way..Whitsundays, Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas, Fraser Island, Byron Bay and many many more! We bought a big estate car which has no back seats just a bed in the back so were able to sleep in the car the whole way down the coast which was handy!

We have now arrived in Melbourne which is a fantastic city, we have fallen in love with it already! Staying with some dear friends of ours, Arj and Phil for a few weeks before we move into our new flat which we just found in Richmond. Watch this space for more photos of our time here in Melbourne.

Hope everyone is well and slightly warmer than we are-it's 5 degrees at the moment!

Lots of love Caroline and Joel xxxx