After the reef trip we left Airlie beach and headed north done quite a bit of driving then stayed in a rest area and had a good sleep( 12hrs!). In the morning we got to Townsville which was a good city lots of shops and museums and of course just 8km away from magnetic island. We spent the day walking around and bit of internet although they charge $2 for 15mins. After we drove up a huge mountain we where the only car everyone was running or walking (they are rea...

So we parked the van in a hostel car park and had an early night ready for our trip the next day. We arrived at the jetty nice an early to catch our boat we got our wet suits on they felt weird bit like a seal and then jumped on board the thriller had a briefing on the days itinerary and then we were off the boat was really fast we did some donuts and fun turns and took turns to sit right on the edge holding on to some straps. We made to our first snorkel spot af...

So it brings me to today we did about 500k in the van the weather is getting very hot we're in the tropical region now of the the tropic of Capricorn 27 degrees average no clouds for the past 3 days and it's bloody winter here! I'm currently in an amazing rest area just on the beach just had my 4th mug of goon and a fag I'm smoking roll ups I did buy some duty free fags in Singapore but there gone now and fags here are £9.50 a pack if your lucky! Finished my boo...

So we got here bout 3pm parked up and went for a stroll very nice town similar to noosa lots of backpackers everywhere and so many travel agencies trying to sell boat trips as Airlie beach is the gateway to the Whitsunday islands. In the evening there is plenty of bands playing really good atmosphere. We took a risk again and slept in a car park behind a sailing club. Next day was spent using the free Internet in McDonald's (only place with wifi in this bloody co...

Next stop was noosa a place that I really wanted to go previous to coming to oz we arrived in the morning with the intention of staying for a day or two at max we ended up staying here for 8days! Wow what a place heaving with back packers an amazing beach an great town due to rain we decided to take a ferry to up the river noosa to the various districts (noosa noosaville noosa junction and tewantin) had a good day walking about and discovering the place we parked...