G'day G'day, and how ya goin? Whadda ya know, you'l strike a light.

Hey hey folks! My blogs are like London buses, you get none for ages and then two come at once!

I'm here in an awesome place called Noosa Heads, or just Noosa for short. I came here from Rainbow Beach this morning and it has been raining solidly since then. In addition to the obvious annoyance of the rain itself, an additional irritation comes from the fact that I have a lot to do here in relatively little time.

As I arrived here, I had no accommodation booked in for the evening, so I spoke to my guide and he suggested this place called Koalas, which is a chain of hostels all over Australia which I've stayed in before and have been bearable. It turns out three others (two Londoners called Jack and Dean and Jenny who I'd met from a previous trip) were also staying there so we rang up the hostel and they sent out a courtesy bus, which arrived unbelievably quickly.

We were picked up in a Ute (pick up truck) and our things were taken from us and placed in the back of the truck. They were covered up to protect them from the rain. We spoke to the friendly driver about the weather, the city, what there is to do etc. and I quickly began to adore the place.

Just north (as in walking distance) of Noosa is Australia's most visited National Park, ("AWESOME!!!" I thought), and there are oober loads of fantastic walking tracks. In addition to this, the driver (who's job it is to drive customers around) said he would drive me up there to save me the walk, ("AWESOME!!!" I thought).

Australia Zoo is owned by the widow, Terri, of the late Steve Irwin, or "The Crocodile Hunter". There's a free shuttle bus from the hostel to there ("AWESOME!!!" I thought). I'm off there tomorrow, very excited indeed. It's very wet, so four of us are going to cheer ourselves up and go to the cinema to see "Bourne Ultimatum", it looks fantastic although I haven't seen the first two.

Two weeks today.