Magnetic island We got the ferry over to magnetic island from Townsville and stayed at the YHA, anytime we stay at the YHA you know it's going to be a little luxury. I mean we have our own reading lamps at our bunk bed and your own private...............wait for it..............plug socket!! and in this case it was a double! We chose this hostel because it had a koala sanctuary located on the grounds and it was set in woodlands so it had a nice camping feel to i...

Hi everyone, We arrived in Sydney at 10am in the morning to a nice sunny climate at last!! We couldn't find availability in the same hostel as we stayed in at New Years Eve and Christmas so we opted for the one that gave free airport shuttles and it was on Kent street the same street as my friend mark so we were practically next door neighbours!! Haha The hostel was huge and it was a prime spot in the city right in the middle of everything, however this was t...

Hello everyone, We left magnetic island on the morning and we had a bus waiting for us at the ferry terminal ready to take us on our final greyhound bus to cairns. It was weird knowing that it was our last journey on the greyhound, it had been our transport all the way up the east coast and i think it was an inkling that our Australian section of our trip was nearing the end. But not before we experience cairns. We had big plans for cairns and at the top of o...

We left Airlie beach on a high after our sailing trip and headed for Townsville. We were greeted in Townsville by a mass of aborigines which we hadn't seen before there was a load. They were abusive not to us but to each other and the language they used was very inappropriate. Their potty mouth would of been washed out with soap if my nana's would of caught them! Here is an interesting fact because I'm full of them...............until 1967 aboriginal people wer...

Hi everyone, The time has come.............when we decided to come to Australia and we were researching things to do, the Whitsundays was at the top of our list!! It's like the seal sands of Australia but only a million times better! Haha We booked this trip back in Byron Bay from that mad stoner Jimmy so we were looking forward to it because it was meant to be SICK!! Haha We made our way to the hostel called beaches which was included in our trip.....average...