Day 123 Monday 11th January 2010 Johno says Today we were catching our Greyhound bus to Hervey Bay, it was an easy going four hour drive and we arrived to our backpacker accommodation late afternoon (which incidentally had one of the fattest pet cats I think I have ever seen in my life) and almost straight away had a briefing on our booked four wheel drive Fraser Island tour that we would start in the morning. There were 20 of us which were separated into 2 jee...

Day 121 Saturday 9th January 2010 Johno says Nothing like a good hangover to start your three hour Greyhound coach journey to Noosa Heads!! We arrived in the blistering heat at the bus terminal which was conveniently opposite our YHA hostel, it was a beach resort that seemed quite hip and trendy with a parade of expensive restaurants and bars along the seafront! It was so hot we decided to just rest up and have a beach day today! There were plenty of people b...

Day 121 Saturday 9th January 2010 Johno says Nothing like a good hangover to start your three hour Greyhound coach journey to Noosa Heads!! We arrived in the blistering heat at the bus terminal which was conveniently opposite our YHA hostel, it was a beach resort that seemed quite hip and trendy with a parade of expensive restaurants and bars along the seafront! It was so hot we decided to just rest up and have a beach day today! There were plenty of people b...

Day 119 Thursday 7th January 2010 Johno says Our greyhound transfer steered us into Brisbane within 2 hours of leaving Surfers Paradise and our hostel was only 600 metres from the coach station but it was a long 600 metres in the Queensland heat. The hostel was another good quality YHA and it was more like a hotel with a rooftop swimming pool and good newly built facilities on site. It appears that the YHA's are definitely the way forward in Oz from what we hav...

Day 118 Wednesday 6th January 2010 Stacey says We woke up at a painful 4am this morning, as we wanted to catch the sunrise at Captain Cooks Lighthouse, the most eastern point of Australia. It took a good 40 minute walk up to the point, it was pitch black, with no lights. Steve was scaring me suggesting that the woman who just walked past us doing her morning power walk was a ghost, as she told us directions and just disappeared so quickly! Haha! And you could...