This Is Australia .... The beginning of the beginning

Hello People!

Well this is going to be the start of my online diary which I will be updating as much as posible on my journey through Australia over the next 12 months as i will be taking "some" of it out of my hand written one. Excuse alot of the bad grammar but hey, im Rob!

So im going to Australia with the following:

Backpack (full of clothes of course, first aid kit and wash gear)
One way ticket
£1000
The clothes on my back

The plan is that i will be leaving Southampton at 1600hrs to arrive at heathrow for 1800hrs with my Nan, Mum and a couple of my best mates Steve and James so i can have dinner and to get my flight at 2235hrs. Once i have said my goodbyes i will be on a 24hour flight with one stop off at Hong Kong for 1hr30mins, but i cannot leave the airport which is a shame! Then i leave hongkong to arrive at sydney on Sunday morning at 0615hrs which back in England the actual time will be around 2000hrs on Saturday! So for the first time since i can actually remember i will miss a drunken weekend!

I will then be picked up by the reps from a company called OzIntro who will show me my hostel who i will be sharing it with a few other backpackers who will be staying that week with me (17 of them in my group and there great people as i have been talking to them already). My first week with this company i will be doing, in order:

A tour of Sydney, Jet boating around Sydney harbour, Learn to Surf, Go to the Zoo (gunna have a boxing match with a kangaroo), Sydney Aquarium (gunna swim on a shark), bondi beach costal walk, snorkel on bondi beach and have a BBQ there (gunna throw a few shrimps on that barbie!), day trip to the Blue Mountains Rainforest (going to wrestle and alligator), Pub Crawl (Paid drinks! They havnt met me :D) and then on the final day have a farewell dinner up at Sydneys revolving tower restaurant (where i will eat the kangaroo i boxed and the alligator i wrestled).

After all that exciting week i will be kicked out of the hostel and will now have to fend for myself, i want to travel up the east coast to go to Cairns so i can go scuba diving in the great barrier reef for my 21st and i may even be doing this with friends i have met along my journey. I will then make it back to Sydney for December so i can see New Years there which will be amazing. After that i want to travel the west coast and go to the Outbacks, so as you can see i want to do alot in this next year! Hopefully i will achieve alot, make alot of friends and have a great time but hey only time can tell! I'll try to keep this updated as possible so it will save my from telling my stories to people over and over again!

Rob