After a 13 hour overnight bus journey - during which the driver insisted on having the air con blasting our faces off - we arrived just outside Sydney and were collected by Jean and Bob - Alyx's Great Aunt and Uncle. We spent 2 nights with them, and again it was so nice to be in a proper home with a lovely bed! We had a bath (not together) which was heavenly after grotty showers! On the first day we chilled out as we were so tired from the bus journey, but th...

Another short bus journey took us to Byron Bay, and the Arts Factory Hostel. As soon as we arrived we realised we were in a very hippy type of town, and the hostel was very much the same. We had a pretty normal dorm room, but there was the option of sleeping in a teepee, wagon or double decker bus! The hostel was great, had its own swamp, hamocks, hot tub, and swimming pool. We spent a lot of time there and didnt venture into town that much. On our first night we...

We arrived in Surfers Paradise and were taken to our hostl in style - in limo! It was a bit of an old scabby limo though! The hostel was really nice and we had our own little apartment, it was like being back at uni and we made the most of the sofa's and tv! On our first night we went on a bar crawl that was organised by the hostel, there were about 50 people on it and it was good fun. The next day we had our second surfing lesson, which turned out to be a bit ...

After a short bus journey from Rainbow beach we arrived in Noosa, which is the most beautiful place. With reccomendations from Laura Spencer we hired a kayak and had a leisurely paddle down the river, we've both decided we're going to retire there when we're old and rich, as the riverside houses are amazing! The next day we had an early start as we headed off to Australia Zoo. Crikey Mate! The zoo was really nice, and we got to feed elephants, kangaroos and cudd...

So, on from not so sunny Childers we made our way to a not much warmer Rainbow Beach where our Fraser Island trip was to depart from. Even with the weather being a bit pants we still went to check out the beach and it got a bit scandallous when we decided to join the thousands of other people that had done the same thing and carved our names in the soft black rocks on the beach (will try and put a picture up). That evening we had to meet up with the rest of our F...