the boys left us to go to mission beach (further north) on a grey hound bus because they had a sky dive booked for friday while me josie and jess went up to magnetic island. which is where i am now. theres not really so much to do here. the hostel is nice but the staff are USELESS. josie left this morning so we'll meet up with her again in cairns. on magnetic island we didnt really do anyhitng. was a bit crap . just hung out in the pool and chilled with a couple...

after Kroombit we took the bus again up to Airlie beach where we stayed in a hostel called beaches which was really nice because we got upgraded to a double room. yay:) we went out with josie and a bunch of ginger girls from sheffield that me and jess affectionately call the "rangas" (as in ozzie slang for gingers-> orangatang-> ranga) out of ear shot of course. the next night we moved hostels because we had a free night at koalas hostel with our ...

after hervey bay we took the bus up to 1770 which was another compulsory stop with nothing going on. which was where i rang you from. the hostel was REALLY nice so we just took advantage and stayed in and slept lots. thats a lie. we went kayaking and drank champagne and ate crisps on the beach which was super nice but made our shoulders ache. but we did sleep like babies that night. after 1770 we took the bus up to Kroombit cattle station where we were cowgirls ...

after rainbow beach we took teh bus up to Hervey bay and stayed there for a night. on the afternoon of our first night there we had to go for a briefing for Fraser island. which was a weekend with about 30 other people in three land rovers drivings all over Fraser island which is the biggest sand island in the world. full of dingoes :s aaaanyway. at this briefing we met 2 Geordie lads called david and Simon who we have also adopted who are so fun and are going to...

so. i got up to rainbow beach which was really just a sleepy town with nothing to do but it was a compulsory overnight stopover. there was a fella working at the hostel who did free walk tours up the sand dunes. he was like an 8th aboriginal so his grandads and stuff had passed on all their sweet nature boy knowledge. and he could talk to birds and knew all this cool forest stuff you could eat. i was proper sceptical at first but he was an absolute legend. i ate ...