We arrived in Airlie Beach after a pretty horrible 12 hour overnight bus journey & had to trek to our hostel - Magnums, exhausted & fully loaded up with our bags as for some reason, they were one of the few places that wouldn't do a free pick-up. Luckily it wasn't too far but we were still recovering from our Fraser Island trip so we weren't too impressed! The drive into Airlie had been really scenic, it had a lovely marina & the town had a really nic...

After finally escaping Surfers Paradise, we spent two nights in Brisbane where we met up with our friend Laura from the Coogee Crew (Sydney Dec 15th - Jan 10th). It was great to see her & compare stories of our adventures & we had some fun nights out & even managed to fit in a few hours of sight-seeing where we took the City-Cat ferry round the city & stopped off at Brisbane's man-made beach. After Brisbane was a 2 night stop in Noosa Heads, whic...

Well after 4 months & a half months to date in Oz, we finally left New South Wales & headed a couple of hours up the East Coast to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast. We'd almost decided to skip Surfers as we'd heard pretty bad reports that it has nothing going for it other than the beach but as we had our pre-paid Greyhound pass we thought we might as well take a look even if only for a night or two. The first thing we noticed was the considerabl...