I had booked a flight from Cairns back down to Sydney for 11th May so i only had one full day in Cairns,and one last day with the girlies who i had travelled with since Noosa(Katie since Melbourne)! We spent the day in Kuranda, just up from Cairns, which is a rainforest town. Getting there is the highlight of it. To get there we took a sky cable that took us above the canopy of the rainforest in our own little flying pod which was lovely,if a bit scary. In the to...

Magnetic Island- The home of Australias Full Moon parties. This is where i came to learn how to Scuba Dive and obtain my Open Water Diver certification. A small island, we stayed at Base. I went ahead of the girls to start my course, they followed the day after. After a 4hr wait at the bus stop as the bus was delayed i was on my way! It took 4days for my dive training to be complete, 2days of theory and pool work and then the 2others spent doing 4 dives out in th...

The Whitsundays are a group of 75 Islands off Eastern Australia. We took the SV Whitehaven and sailed for 2days and 2nights. During the trip we snorkelled and took a trip to one of the Islands with Whitehaven beach on it, the main attraction. We stopped in a bay and all these turtles surfaced, it was pretty cool. We had a lovely group of people on the boat and great crew. It was pretty amazing sailing around all these Islands but nothing compared to Halong Bay in...

The aboriginal people call Fraser Island K'gari, which roughly translates into paradise and was also the name of the camp we stayed at on the second night. It is said that all the sand from the Eastern coast of Oz eventually ends up at Fraser. It is a huge sand island created by 800,000years of longshore drift. Although it is the worlds biggest sand island it is covered in rainforest and 40freshwater lakes. We did a 3day 2night 4WD self guided tour here. There w...

Our luck with public transport is in as we got a cheap deal on the Greyhound to Noosa, our luck with choosing a hostel is equally is good. Its my first YHA ive styed in and its beautiful. Its an old lodge, all wooden,set in lovely grounds. The first night we had our room to ourselves, its like a little shack. We went to the beach today which was lovely and the weather has been so warm, although by about 2pm we had been washed away as the sea came in so high. We ...