Well after an amazing time in Hervey Bay it was finally time to leave and continue with our travels. As we now go further north into Queensland the places we want to visit, and indeed the general tourist areas get fewer and more spaced out, so over the next few days we had a lot of km's to cover.The next place we were heading was to Mackay which is 740km north, but on the first day driving we only managed 400km to a place called Rockhampton. On the way up there...

After a great time in Noosa we headed North to Hervey Bay which is the gateway to Fraser Island!!!On the way to Hervey Bay we drove through a town called Gympie which was a mining town on the way. It was supposed to be picturesque but the signposted tourist drive we took was crap so glad we didn't stop there. Next up was Maryborough which is famous because the author of Mary Poppin's was born there. When we arrived we wanted to the find the Mary Poppin's statu...

The main reason we came to Hervey Bay was actually to visit Fraser Island which is the worlds largest sand island and is situated a 50 minute ferry ride from Hervey Bay. Fraser Island is about 180 miles long by 50 miles wide and is totally comprised of sand, but its also the only place on earth where rainforest grows on sand! This makes Fraser unique because one minute you can be walking on a golden sandy beach, then strolling through a tropical rainforest or s...

Heading North towards Noosa we tried to stay on a road as close to the coast as possible as there were lots of little towns we could go through on the way up. After only about an hour of driving we ended up at a place called Arkwright Point, which was nothing more than a parking area with a walk down to a secluded beach. The beach however, along with the rockpools and cliffs around it were really picturesque and was the first proper "this is the australian...

After the excitement of the last 2 days at Australia Zoo we headed out for a day at the coast to a town called Caloundra. This is effectively known as the start of the Sunshine Coast, and even though there was nothing particularly there we wanted to see we thought we might as well go and have a nose around.On the way in to Caloundra we ended up taking a slight wrong turn thanks to the typically rubbish Ozzie signposting and ended up doing a 15km detour (oops) be...