So I've been very busy and haven't had a chance to update this blog for about 2 weeks so I may miss out a few things but il try to remember ! We dropped the van off in cairns and were a bit nervous as we chipped the windscreen and they told us when we rented it that any damage to the windscreen would cost $500 from our deposit. The day before we took it to a garage and got it repaired and had a receipt luckily for us the guy who we gave the van back to had only w...

So we went to mission beach apparently it's a very popular place on the backpacker circuit with lots of interesting sights when we arrived it was the opposite. There was no one around expect pensioners in caravans it was one tiny street with an ok beach we did some laundry and cooked an omelette on the beach and decided to leave. We drove for a bit till we found a place called walla walla waterfall circuit it was 26k drive with 3 waterfalls and 2 lakes it was stu...

We drove north and then turned off the highway and headed west inland towards the outback. We parked up and headed for a waterfall which is the biggest waterfall in Australia with a drop of 268 metres. The waterfall was amazing with a huge rainbow running through the middle we cooked an omelette and ate just next to the waterfall plus I had a glass of wine at 10 30am! After this we did a couple of walks I wanted to go to the bottom of the waterfall but they where...

The next day we headed for the local national park this part of Queensland had so many walks through rainforests and mountains we found a great little waterfall and climbed through all the rocks downstream for about an hour than turned around and climbed back this was really hard work and I was exhausted by the time we had finished. We than drove up river and found some great rock pools I went for a dip but it was freezing even the air was so cold because we wher...

After a few pancakes on the beach we made our way to the ferry and got a boat over to magnetic island it's around 52km big with some good walks bays and beaches we walked almost half the island and saw some old world war two sites with bunkers and stuff. After we had a decent fish and chips next to the sea then got a bus to the other side of the island and did another big walk walk and bush hiked up a big mountain to a look out and watched the sun set. We then w...