The next interesting part, which I can be bothered to talk about, is Fraser Island. We arrived at Rainbow beach on the dutiful Greyhound bus. Rainbow Beach is a very small sea side town with not much to offer more of fishing and the gateway to Fraser Island, the biggest sand island in the world and our home for 3 days and 3 nights. The hostel was running the whole thing. They assigned us groups and a vehicle and went through all the do and don'ts and we left th...

We arrived in Airlie Beach with little to no plan of what we were doing next. We knew that the Whitsundays were most people's top destination on the East Coast, so we were interested in getting on a boat, but with no clue which. There are what seems likes hundreds of possiblities, so we went to see a nice lady at Peter Pans Travel agency and she gave us a bargain deal on our boat and Fraser Island 4WD tour thingy. The only thing was, there was a four day waiting ...

well, this is my second attempt at this entry, the first one was lost just as I was saving it, so excuse me if it's a little boring, but I'm bored of writing it! So after the beautiful Cape Tribulation we breifly spent time at Mission beach at the Treehouse. This was probably my most favourite hostel so far, apart from Juggler's rest of course. It was essentialy a wooden shed in the rainforest. If I ever have the opportunity to build a house, it will resemble th...

Cape Tribulation was not originaly on either of our agendas, but after chatting to some people from our previous tours, it became a 'must see'. Now I know Dave is very sceptical of the 'must see' phenomina, but the sources were pretty reliable so we decided to give it a go. After a few much needed, but entirely boring, days in Cairns and an incredible frustrating conversation with an Austrian travel rep we were booked on ANOTHER tour. This was to be honest the l...