For our only full day in Noosa we decided to skip going to the beach, because it wasn't that warm or sunny and we've spent enough time on the beach already, and instead walked along the coastal track from our hostel at Sunshine Beach all the way into the main town centre - 2.5 to 3 hours of walking. We started off by walking down Duke Street to get some breakfast, it was full of nice cafes and we got a cheap delicious breakfast there - all going great, until some...

After our day at the zoo, we were up again early the next day for a trip to Fraser Island. We were picked up from the hostel by our guide, Tim, at 5.45am (!), and after picking up some other daytrippers we drove along the inland route to Rainbow Beach. We were pretty lucky because as it was really early, the wildlife was out and about - we saw a kangaroo and our first ever wild dingo! Once we got to the barge to take us over to Fraser Island from Inskip Point, we...

When we left Brisbane by coach we stopped off for a visit to Australia Zoo on our way up to Noosa. It's a real shame that Steve Irwin isn't around anymore, but even so the zoo did not disappoint. We got there just as the zoo was opening, so we were first in line to get in. Once we'd dropped off our bags we set out to have a look round at all the animals - there were loads that we had seen before, but also ones that we hadn't seen. We started off with a look at so...

From Byron Bay it was a 2.5 hour direct coach journey up to Brisbane, which for us now seems like hardly any driving at all! We had decided not to bother stopping off on the Gold Coast, as from the guidebooks it seemed like there wasn't anything there that we hadn't seen elsewhere in Oz, but we did drive past the theme parks, including the water park from the Inbetweeners movie, so we had a good giggle about that. From the bus stop we had a 30 minute walk to our ...