We arrived in Cairns on Friday 12th March 2010 at 1pm our last greyhound bus journey of the trip- woo! Arrived at our hotel, not quite as it looked int he borchure!! Chilled out on our first day, having a wander and visiting the lovely man made lagoon swimming area, was pretty hot in Cairns too! We booked a two day and one night trip here to the Daintree and Cape Tribulation, the trip was great, made even better by our tour guide Peter - who had two key catch phr...

We stopped two nights at Mission Beach on the Cassowary Coast in between Townsville and Cairns break up the Greyhound coach journey. It is the name given to an area of 14km of multiple villages along the beach front and though small in size it is the place to do extreme activities in Oz, such as sky diving on the beach, whitewater rafting, kitesurfing etc, but as we plan to do all this in New Zealand we just wanted to chill out. The hostel we stayed in was a rea...

We arrived at Townsville at 2.25pm on Monday 8th March 2010 (not sure where time is going at the moment as seems to be flying!), the town itself is usually just the gateway to Magentic Island by 30 minute ferry but due to tight budget constraints we bucked the trend and decided to stay in Townsville itself for a couple of days to break up the journey and chill out! Jimmy picked a really good hostel here more like a B+B guest house run by a more mature lady called...

We arrived at Airlie Beach (gateway to Whitsundays) on Thursday 4th March 2010 at 9am (only two hours late!), it all worked out in the end and after the longest bus journey yet, overnight for 12 hours we had arrived! The sun was shining and it was absolutely boiling! We checked in with our boat company and were given lovely small hand luggage bags we had to fit our 2 day 2 night items in! No spare space on the boat as we soon saw once we arrived and saw our bedr...

After an early morning wake up from a kind considerate Swedish girl at 5.30am and 7am pancake breakfast we were all a little tired but got the lunch time bus to Agnes Water/Town of 1770, a mere 6 hours! Arrived Sunday 28th February 2010 at 6.10pm, free pick up from bus stop to our hostel Cool Bananas! One of the best hostels we have stayed in so far, big 8 bed dorms, super clean, huge fully equipped kitchen, chill out areas, TV and loads of DVD's, and FREE TEA AN...