We arrived at Sydney about 9am and caught a train to our hostel in Kings Cross. The hostel was probably the best place we have stayed so far, we got a 3 bed dorm, the kitchen was good and everybody was friendly. Our room mate turned up about 10 that night, a Canadian girl called Amber- possibly the loudest, craziest and friendliest person we have ever met and always happy- even with a severe hangover! Unfortunately the first day or so Dani wasn't well so we had t...

Rainbow Beach was our departure point to Fraser Island so we arrived at our hostel 'Dingo's' for our orientation at midday via the Greyhound from Brisbane. We were shown a video about Dingo awareness (pretty much the same as Bears- act big and dont run away!) and Fraser Island safety and put into team G with Nic, Ash and Stevo and were told we were to be joined by 4 more girls in the morning. By the morning the 4 girls had arrived; 2 Germans and 2 Brits- Luci, ...

This blog is going to cover Surfers Paradise, Byron Bay and Brisbane Ok so after leaving Sydney we caught a night bus to Surfers Paradise, the bus journey was ok but they played the worst film i have possibly ever seen, luckily they made up for it by stopping at Mcdonalds for breakfast. We arrived at Surfers and caught the free minibus to our hostel Trekkers. The hostel was really good and the guy who owned it was really friendly. As it was Easter Sunday everyth...

Our flight landed at 6.30am to a very chilly Melbourne and caught the Skybus from the airport into Melbourne city centre. Once there we caught a tram to St Kilda (a beach town south of the city) to our pub hostel. Once again, we'd managed to get a 6 dorm room full of men so again, I was the only girl so even though the room smelt of old socks and mens deodorant, we slept until late and had a really cheap pub dinner downstairs. The next day we were able to catch ...

We spent a whole day and night travelling from Phuket to Singapore, then Singapore to Perth and arrived at 12.30am WA local time. It was too late to find any public transport so forked out for a taxi- our first taste of paying Australian rates instead of Thai ones, which was quite a shock! Once we'd had a good nights sleep, we looked out the window to the brightest blue skies we'd seen in weeks! We took a walk round the banks of the Swan River to the harbour and...