Where to begin??!?

Sorry it's taken me so long to write :/ I have no excuse, really, except that I haven't had Internet on my iPhone for several weeks. But really, I'm addicted to Candy Crush. It's sad :(
When I last wrote, we had finished with mission beach, left our beautiful Paronella Park, and were on our way to cairns, with plenty of days to spare before we returned our campa van. We stayed in cairns for a couple of days before heading up north, to see the Daintree Rainforest and Cape Tribulation. It was so gorgeous, lush, and HUMID up there! We saw huge spiders and we swam in the natural spring waters of Mossman Gorge (which was warmer water compared to the dip we took at The Boulders, just south of cairns). When you see photos of Mossman Gorge, it's usually of the beautiful swimming hole :)
We also took a Daintree River Crocodile 'cruise' and saw a full-grown salt-water croc, a smaller one, and two babies, all in their natural habitat!!
In between Cairns and Cape Trib, we stayed in Port Douglas for a couple of days before and after, at a place called Dougie's. LOVED IT!!!!! But the mozzies were really bad, what with it being just south of the rainforest. I'm considering heading up there to work once Ryan leaves (booooo *sad face*).
We've be in Cairns ever since, arriving the day before we had to return our van, and thank god we did!!! We had a LOT of stuff and crap in that van, and had to do SEVERAL trips to our room, that we ended up staying in for a week, and then another 6 days in another hostel. During that time we lounged by the (man-made) lagoon, met up with my friends Zara and Sam, who were on vaca from their lives in melbs, hung out in our room and watched the entire four seasons of 'The League', which Ryan is now a huge fan of (its always been one of my favs....I even got Erin into it), and enjoyed $5 dinners at PJ O'Briens, and now my trousers are a little tighter LOL :/
Yes, we DID go snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef!!!! It was a boat called 'passions of paradise' and it was AMAZING!!!! We went to two spots on the outer reef, snorkelled for a combined 4 hours, had a great buffet lunch, and I saw THREE different green turtles!!!!!! Ryan was lucky enough to go snorkelling with one of the crew, so he was shown the best spots, and he found Nemo!!! It was a wonderful day that continued at Gilligans that night when we met up with the crew for drinks and then the next day we pretty much didn't leave the room til dinner LOL
So....you're pretty much up to speed, now. I'm finishing this looooong blog entry on a bus, in Sydney, heading to our YHA hostel in Bondi Beach. We stay here until Tuesday morning when we leave for Alice Springs and our 'Rock' tour, then it's one last night in Sydney before Ryan heads home and I head to Brizzy for my free Fraser Island trip.
I'll post more photos later, along with the blog entry explaining how I got engaged last night ;)
xxooxox