We left Noosa at 13:00 on Wednesday 24th February 2010 excited at what lay ahead, we had a relatively short Greyhound journey of two and a half hours until we arrived at Rainbow Beach gateway to Fraser Island. We would spend the Wednesday and Thursday at Rainbow Beach before departing early on the Friday for our tour of Fraser! It had been booked whilst we were in Brisbane in a deal that also included the Whitsundays sailing trip and we were very much looking for...

Franki here (so apologies if I am not as funny as Mr Blog man himself!!) We arrived in Noosa on Monday 22nd February 2010 and had a free pickup to our hostel, really nice town, split into three parts, Noosa, Noosa Heads and Noosa Junction so bit of a walk from our hostel but they offer free bus shuttle so all good! Not a good start arriving at our hostel to be practically accused of making up a discount voucher we had previously been given by a travel company in...

Only a couple of hours away from Surfers Paradise, Brisbane our home for just a couple of days is a fantastic city. Too many people wrongly assume it's no good so skip straight through on their journey or visit all too breifly (as we did) We instanly got a good feeling about Brisbane the architecture is stunning and there is so much to do and see that a couple of days just is not enough. The city centre, botanical gardens, the south bank area are all well worth a...

A strange place, Surfers Paradise the main resort in the strip of towns that make up the gold coast, is full of skyscrapers stretching along the seafront. It is like no place we have so far visited on our journey up the east coast. The feeling is that most probably you will either love it or hate it here. If you like to party it is the place to be, or if you like to surf your also in for a good time (the name should give you a clue here) Or if you have a lot of m...