Wednesday 18th June, all half asleep, we crawled out of bed to get the shuttle bus to the station. We set our own personal record of having a Mcdonald's breakfast and a beer at 6.30am - beautiful! We then boarded the 3 hour bus ride to Australia Zoo, a pretty surreal experience for Jamie as 1) all his dreams of the zoo were shattered that fateful day in Brisbane when we left it too late to go and 2) because he'd watched Steve Irwin's shows on TV and t...

Thursday 7th June and the weather was much better. The group split up - Jamie, Em, Craig, Nick, Nick and Sammy went off to the water park, whilst Dan, Dan, Chris and Zach headed for the golf course. Em and J set off nice and early, starting at Wet & Wild (a supposedly extreme water park), however it was empty and looked average at best. They moved onto Dreamworld, a clumsy, badly-thought out theme park supposed to be Australia's top tourist attraction. It was...