Our 10 hour bus ride wasn't too bad in the end.The majority of the people who got on in Agnes Water then got off at a place called Hervey Bay (the main jumping off point for Frazer Island, that we decided to skip out - too much money and too little time!) so the bus was only about 1/3 full for most of the journey which allowed us to spread out a bit!We arrived in Brisbane around 7pm that night and Alannagh and Robert were already waiting on us to drive us back to...

Our first journey on an overnight bus got us to Agnes Water and the Town on 1770 at around 9am - it's 11th December now.Agnes Water and 1770 are not big so there isn't much to do here but we needed a stop between Airlie Beach and Brisbane and Laura from our Cambodia trip had recommended this place for a couple of tours so we decided to stay here. The Town of 1770 has a pretty interesting history, as it was here, on the 24th May 1770 that the then Lieutenant James...

After an 11 hour bus journey we arrived in Airlie Beach where we had arranged to do a 2 ½ day and 2 night cruise around the Whitsunday Islands. Gemma and James who we met in Kho Samui recommended a boat called Wings 2 - a catamaran which was primarily a water activities boat and a social boat which meant not nuts but not dead quiet/boring like the relaxed boats we had heard about where everyone goes to bed at 9pm - perfect! We booked into our hostel which was mo...

We have arrived in Australia!! First stop is Cairns in the North East after a stinker of a flight. We left Singapore at around 8pm and flew the 5 hours to Darwin for a stopover which lasted 4 ½ hors then another 2 hour flight to Cairns - safe to say by 9:30 in the morning when we arrived we were exhausted and even at this time in the morning it was already an energy draining 30 degrees - a sign of things to come! Luckily our hostel offered a free pick up servi...