We arrived in Airlie beach at 9am the next morning...checked into Waterfront backpackers.. for the record-fantastic hostel! like a big appartment! after exploring Airlie we went to woolworths to get groceries and spent the evening chilling around ours with John and Odette! The next morning we spent time on the internet and preparing for our whitsundays trip! we were so excited and had to make sure we had enough drinks to last us 3 days! That night Mike and Eric...

Onto our 3 day camping adventure... We arrived in Rainbow Beach, checked in and had our welcome meeting with Merv! We had already made friends with Nadia and Mandy and decided to stick together so we had a few girls in the group. Now it was time to scan the hostel for men to poach for our Fraser group! hmmm... Nadia spotted a couple of lads across the bar and we convinced her to go and ask them to join us... they happily obliged (obviously having no idea what th...

We got the train to Wellington point where We were meeting Mick and Eileen, a couple who are friends with Jayne's mum and dad!! Eileen met us at the train station and it was straight home for a roast dinner, oh my god it was sooooooooo good!! We had roast pork, roast potatos and vegetables!! The next morning we were up early so we could spend the day in Brisbane as we only had one day before heading off up the coast!! Eileen is 'Queen of Tourism' so took us ...

So it was Jaynes real Birthday the next day so we had to get organised! We went to Coolie to find out about hiring a car as we wanted to do 'Byron Bay take 2'. Lisa managed to get rid of Jayne for the afternoon so she could figure out her gifts etc.. Jayne's Birthday! woke up and Jayne had tears whilst opening her cards and presents.. she got 2 tops from her mum, a necklace from Ian, Lisa had made a photo album of the trip so far putting in the funniest memorie...

Back on the greyhound on our way to Byron Bay which is where Pat was picking us up from. Pat is one of the 2 Canadian guys we made friends with on Coral view in Fiji. We had organised to share a flat with him in Kirra beach near Collangatta for a week or two. We couldnt wait to see him again, it had been 3 mths and we had so much to catch up on! We arrived and gave him the biggest hug ever before getting pizza take-out, some beers and catching up back at the flat...