Hervey Bay & Fraser Island We arrived in Hervey Bay at 1.30 in the morning, I had a nightmare coming off the bus nearly leaving my iPod and actually forgetting my phone. It's a good job it was a rubbish one. We caught a taxi to the hostel where are keys were waiting for us in a safe, we then had to get through the gate which the owner had gave us the wrong code for. I opted to climb over in a Mission Impossible / James Bond type manner and let everyone in....

It wasn't a long drive to Bundaberg, around an hour and a half. Tom was meeting Jeeva here, a friend of his who he met at Uni. He had arrived before us and got checked into a hostel which was right next to the coach stop. We arrived about 30 minutes after him, the hostel he chose wasn't great, no alcohol allowed, the rooms were a bit weird and 95% of the hostel was Asian. I have nothing against them at all but I have found they kind of stick in their own littl...

Previously on this blog I left you and we were in a gravel lay by trying to hitch hike to Agnes Water or 1770. Danny (The Indian Vicar from Gladstone who had took a shine to Tom) had said he posted on the church's Facebook page that we needed a lift and said someone was going to Brisbane and would be there between half 9 and 10. It got to 10.15 and no one came and we were having no luck flagging anyone down either. The lay-by was poor and gravelly, so we decide...

So as I left you we were in the car with Danny, an Indian Christian on our way to Gladstone. But first we had to pop back to Rocky as the Aussies like to call it to drop something off at his friend's house who was getting married. Conversation was flowing he spoke to us about his travels, berated Tom for paying fines he got in Australia and then he shocked us both by offering us free accommodation for the when we were in Gladstone. We didn't really know what to...

So I know you are in suspense with the major cliff-hanger I left you with. I can confirm we got to Rockhampton and Stefan was also a sound bloke, he loved the Cranberries, juice and Motorbikes. He told us facts about Australian mining, truck driving and Australia. Conversation with him was a bit stop start but he did tell us to add him on Facebook and anytime we need a lift give him a shout and he would give us a lift if he was in the area. Tom was being a nega...