Welcome to Rockhampton! The steak capital of Australia! After hearing this we couldnt possibly pass up the chance to sample australias best steak (and the idea of a proper dinner for once) so added it to our itinery! Rockhampton is where the Tropic of capricorn meets the Tropic of cancer- so this was our official first time in the tropics- very exciting! After visiting the information centre and pretending that we were there for any other reason than to eat stea...

Arrived back in Brisbane and made our way up to Bundaberg to visit the rum factory- boring fact- this was the 6th time we had travelled on this stretch of road due to going to the zoo, fraser island and back to sydney for new year! So we felt a factory full of rum was well deserved and needed by this point!! The factory was lots of fun and quite interesting- now pros on the rum process to add to our banana and other useless information we have learnt on this tri...

Hardly dry from our Fraser Island trip we bombed it back down to Brisbane airport for our new years celebration in Sydney! We arrived back into sydney early morning were we met up with the lads from Kiwi bus who had also flew in that morning. we all trooped to the irish girls flat where we would be setting up camp for the next two nights. The 4 person flat was full to the brim with 16 people, thats irish hospitality for you!!!! The day was spent with some of us...

we arrived in Hervey Bay in the pooring rain :( not a very nice boxing day at all! So we decided to cut our losses and head to the bar where the entire population of Hervey Bay had to seemed to conregate! There was a live band pretty much all evening so we spent the night chatting and watching aussie yobos attempting dance! So pretty much like boxing day at home! ;) The next day we left moose in secure parking to be looked after and headed off to Frazer Island o...

Our first stop in brisbane was Australia zoo, which for those of you that dont know is Steve Irwins zoo. Had so much fun and was the hottest day we have had yet, lots of sweating going on!! We had our first encounter with a wombat- they are so cute, have been trying to think of a way to explain them to you, D has just said they look like a massive brown badger that has been smashed in the face!! If you can imagine that then you are better than me! Probably best t...