The second day in Agnes waters/1770 I got to sleep in and had a nice lazy breakfast. Then I went and registered for a tour called scooterroo which I had heard about the previous night. Scooteroo is a tour around the two towns on motorcycles not the kind where you get driven around but where you are given a motorcycle that you ride yourself. The scooters are made to look like Harley Davidsons and when 30 backpackers turned up we were told that by the end of the...

After all my hassle with health I spent some final days recovering at my friends steve and sharons place and finally took off again last Friday. The aim was to head towards Rockhampton hitching all the way. It only took an hour before my first lift picked me up and took me from Hervey Bay to the Bruce Hwy. ( that's the main hwy running north/south along Queensland from Brisbane to Cairns. My second lift took another hour and that lift dropped me at the turn of...