We crawled out of bed at 3.45am and silently got ready trying not to disturb others in our Sydney dorm room. At 4.45am a minivan collected us from our hostel and delivered us at the airport at half 5. We checked into our flight bound for Christchurch, went through passport control and wandered around the duty free as we waited to board the plane. The flight was only 3hours and went quite quickly, the last half hour was particularly amazing as we could see the N...

As the bus journey from Byron to Sydney was 14hours we decided to split this up by stopping for a couple of nights in Coffs Harbour, which was half way between the two. Coffs was quite a large town with a long sprawling beach and tiny harbour. As we were only in Coffs to break up a long journey we didn't do much here except for nosing around the shops and walking along the beach. We left Coffs at 10.30pm on the second night and were pleased that the bus was hal...

The drive from Brisbane to Surfers was only an hour and a bit….quite a shock to the system after being used to spending hours and hours on the buses. On arrival in Surfers we had a free pick up from our hostel and were slightly amused (but also grateful) at the very shabby and run-down limo that came to collect us…..living the high life again J Although small, Surfers was very modern and impressive. We walked along the sandy beach, which was lined with ...

Noosa, now down as one of our favourite places, is somewhere that we planned to stay for 4 nights and just like Koh Tao ended up being there for 8. We left Rainbow very early the morning after our Fraser Island visit and arrived into Noosa Junction at around lunchtime. We were greeted by a free shuttle bus that took us on to our hostel. "Dolphins" was a very small, friendly hostel with all the walls painted either bright pink or bright turquoise. After getting ...

We arrived into the very small town of Rainbow Beach at 7.30am. As it was early and we had travelled quite far south the air was very cold and we quickly picked up our bags and made our way to our hostel. The hostel we had chosen provided free breakfast and we arrived just in time for toast and cornflakes, just what we needed after our long bus ride. We checked in, showered and went to explore Rainbow beach. The whole town consists of just a few shops, a swimming...