Day 132 Wednesday 20th January 2010 Johno says It was quite an emotional ten hour journey up to Cairns as we didn't really get much sleep on this Greyhound bus but we arrived early in the morning and walked up to our hostel. Our hostel was called Gilligan's and was quite possibly the largest hostel that I have ever seen with 500 beds, the place was huge - it had a kitchen area on each floor, and the dorms all had their own showers and toilets which made a nice ...

Day 129 Sunday 17th January 2010 Stacey says We checked out at 10am and went to get ourselves a big English breakfast. It was crazy, the man in the café/shop, was running an internet café, a tour booking desk, and the little restaurant all by himself, so after discussing a tour with some customers he darted over to us and cooked up our breakfast! We then went to pick up some drinks and headed down to the harbour. We found our group, got our wetsuits and wai...

Day 128 Saturday 16th January 2010 Johno says We arrived into Airlie Beach around 7am with yet another sleepless night on the Greyhound bus, we booked a place at Magnums Hostel which was recommended to us by our newly found Irish friends. It was fairly cheap to upgrade to a private room rather than the usual Australian dorm so we cracked on and had a good few hours sleep until around midday - beautiful. Airlie beach consists of purely of one medium sized road...

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...