Has been a while since I last updated, have reached Melbourne but we'll start with some stories about my time in Brisbane. After leaving Noosa in the evening, Dan and I (well me really) did some night driving and arrived in Brisbane about midnight. It was the first big city we had to deal with in Australia and finding somewhere to park for the night became a bit of a nightmare. We ended up driving straight through the city into a southern suburb and sleeping on w...

After leaving Rainbow beach, we headed down to the complex town of Noosa, where there are many different parts to the town all beginning with Noosa so we opted for Noosa Heads to start our exploring. As part of a package we had booked in Cairns, we were eligible for a free 3 day canoe trip in the Everglades National Park at Gagaju Bush Camp but when we rang to book it up they said that we had to in fact give 14 days notice. So we gave up on the idea, but whilst i...

OK, so we left Airlie Beach and the Whitsundays sailing knowing we had atleast a 12 hour drive down to our next big activity which was Fraser Island. So we decided to split the drive over 3 days to give us a bit more time to relax and see some of the coast. Our first day involved a short drive down to Mackay which didn't appeal mainly due to the rain and so we headed on a scenic drive of the coast where the beaches of Australia continued to impress as they were a...

We arrived at Airlie Beach pretty late at night and the town itself is made of nothing but travel agencies, restaurants and bars, basically just to cater for all the backpackers there to sail the Whitsunday Islands. We had difficulty finding somewhere to park up for the night and so ended up sleeping in a lay-by but atleast we had a good view over the marina! The next day we were on our yacht at 1.30 with 30 other people and were out on the open water and sailed ...

So after leaving the comfort of our couch in Townsville, we decided that we wanted to head inland in an attempt to see a bit of the Australian outback. We followed the 50m road trains along dead straight roads across miles of nothingness to reach the small town of Charters Towers. Back in the 19th Century, Charters Towers was a very important gold mining town, so much so that it was named The World as it was such an affluent area. Nowadays however it's pretty lam...