After a hell of a bus journey we headed to magnetic island on the ferry from townsville. WEather again wasnt too hot but that afternoon after checking in to our lodges (surrounded by many of australias wonderful wildlife!!) we went to the koala village which was on sight of our hostel. We touched a croc, held a massive bird, lizards, python and teri and phill got to hold a koala. Was pretty hands on! The next day we headed out on soem walks-Teri and cat managed ...

Noosa is beautiful....but it rained and rained:( We loved the hostel, so spent the first day reading and listening to the tropical weather outside...we went out for lunch at a lovely restaurant and then headed back again to play table tennis! The Saturday night was valentines so while teri and phill went out for yet another meal (sorry budget), cat and jim chilled at the hostel bar and made friends (with other people)!Jim was tres hungover and it showed the mor...

Hello All, Brisbane was so similar to Cardiff it was frightening! You could swear that when walking down the main high street you were about to pass Cardiff Castle on your right...it even had a Queen St. The weather was not great so on the first day we went to the museum and botanic gardens, the latter not being the best choice considering the climate. Jim was particularly shaken by the wildlife, specifically large lizard-like creatures. To conclude our first da...

Wow the whitsundays! We decided to go all out and go on a 2day yacht journey round the whitsunday islands. I think it was all of our first times sleeping on a yacht and was a brill experience. The weather the saturday was first class and we all caught a bit too much sun but thanks to the stinger suits which we had to wear snorkling the results wernt too bad. Snorkling was brilliant-really was like putting your head in a fish bowl! The coral is beautiful and its n...

Fraser Island! What can I say-well we decided to do some different trips for a few days each so me and jim (this is Cat :) went on the cooldingo tour for 3days and 2nights staying in the wilderness lodge. It was 3 of the best days ever!! 2days of sun and 1 day of rain was pretrty lucky for this time of year. There were nearly 40people on our bus to begin with but that went down as time went on. Made some brilliant friends from england, canada, denmark, holland an...