Well I've had quite an eventful time in Byron Bay - it's a small town that is very popular with both Australian holidaymakers and backpackers. The atmosphere at the hostel is really relaxed but also conducive to having lots of fun and the first night saw us all descend on Cheeky Monkeys for a night of revelrey. This perhaps wasn't the wisest move as we were all booked onto the Nimbin tour the following day, so there were a few sore heads the next morning! Nimbin...

I was so excited about coming to Brisbane as it's ages since I've been in a city. 1.5 days of cultural overload - bring it on! The only dampener (boom boom) was that it rained and rained and rained..to the point that my recently acquired umbrella even began to leak. As I squelched down the street on my second day I could take it no more and a pair of socks and leather boots were purchased This was an agonising decision on 2 fronts, cost and bag space, but they we...

Noosa is best descibed as the yuppy of the Eastern coast seaside towns. The wealth is fairly obvious and travellers appear to descend and never leave! Unlike the concrete holiday town of Surfers Paradise, Noosa really is a surfers paradise - in fact it was like Piccadilly circus out there on the surf! I stayed in Noosa for 3 days where I spent my days shopping, walking along the coast and generally relaxing. It really is a lovely place though it would have been ...

Rainbow Beach is a tiny one street seaside resort which is used, along with Hervey Bay, as a ferry point to get to Fraser Island a beautiful Island famous for being the biggest sand island in the world. The Island was originaly named Great Sandy Island by captain Cook but it was later renamed Fraser Island after a woman called Eliza Fraser. In a nutshell, a boat got into trouble near Fraser island and whilst the rest of the crew went to the mainland Captain Fras...

The distance between Airlie Beach and Rainbow Beach is so vast that Oz Experience incorporate a compulsary stop into the timetable. I have another one coming up at 'Surf Camp' (guess what I'll be doing there!) but this one was at Kroombit Cattle Ranch, a real working cattle ranch which has converted some of its stables - yes stables - into comfortable (???) sleeping quarters for 8, so that's 1 horse to 8 humans! The ranch is 40,000 acres, has 10,000 head of catt...