Fraser island is the worlds largers sand island, therefore there are no proper roads unless at a few of the resorts. the main road is on the 75 mile beach on the east of the island. HOwever we are only allowed on the beach at certain times due to the tide. Did a three day self drive tour of Fraser Island. After a briefing about the island, the dangers of dingoes, and driving on sand we were divided up into our groups. There were 10 people in each group. I was w...

I spent the last three days sailing around the Whitsunday Islands. My boat was called 'Waltzing Matilda' and there were 14 people and 2 crew member on the boat. We left Airlie Marina at 9am and went to Border Island first. We had lunch on the way as we sailed past other islands. When we got to BOrder island we were all issued with 'stinger suits' and told about the dangers of jellyfish and there stings but all still got in the water. As i was used...

We left Mission Beach and drove to Townsville. Here we stopped and had lunch before going to a lookout point to see Townsville and across to Magnetic Island. The ferry across only took 20mins and was nice and calm. After arriving the other side the three of us were staying in a different hostel to the rest of the oz exp bus so had to get a public bus to our hostel in Picnic bay. once there we had a walk around the bay and walked to the end of the jetty. Its a ver...

Left Cairns on Friday to go to Mission Beach. On the way down we drive through the Atherton TAblelands. We stopped and had lunch at Lake Eucham and beautiful big lake where there were turtles swimming around. After a short time here we went to Milla Milla Falls. This waterfall is used in the Peter Andre Mysterious Girls video (if any one can cast their mind back to that) Only had time to take a photo here as we had to drive to Innisfail. HEre we went to a crocodi...

Today i went of boat out to the Great Barrier Reef. It took about 2 hours to get out to the reef that we were going to be diving on. On the boat an instructor talked through some of the basics of scuba diving and the exercises that we were going to have to do and the what was going to happen on the way down in the water. As i had a bit of a cold i was worried about the pressure in my ears and how it may be very painful. When the boat stopped at the reef i but on ...