We chilled out in Airlie Beach for a week, mostly going to the lagoon in the day. We got the Oz bus to Kroombit on Saturday. Kroombit is a cattle station in the outback!! When we got there I didn't think I was going to enjoy it as there were mosies everywhere. We put our bags in our room and then went straight over to dinner, had a nice dinner then we all went over to the fire and a man gave us a talk about the area and what they do there. After that he tau...

Woke up this morning at 6am and everyone else had gone in, I was on deck on my own! Mason and Rich woke everyone up as we had to have breakfast before we started sailing as it can aparently get rough.After breakfast we set sail and it was rough but ok. We headed for Whitehaven beach. When we got there we went on a bit of a trek up a mountain to a lookout point. It was so worth it, the most beautifull thing I have ever seen, you look out over whitehaven beach and ...

This morning we went for breakfast then headed down to the marina to get on the SV Whitehaven. The boat was nice, it was a sail boat which was cool cruising along with the sails up. There were about 20 people in our group and everyone was really nice which was good as we were spending 2 days quite closley!! Made friends with 2 girls from Newcastle, Amy and Jen and Irish girl Rosheen a girl from London called Sarah, and Irish guy called Steve and an English guy ca...

We got the bus to Airlie Beach today, I don't know why it is called beach as there isn't one, it is a bit like Cairns with a huge lagoon swimming pool. We checked into Koalas which is the hostel we  have been recomended.  It is really nice, massive again.We didn't get there until about 6pm so we went to the Oz sail office to check in for our sailing trip then went out for dinner and a few drinks. Airlie is a lot more lively, there are loads ...

Got the Oz bus to Magnetic Island today, our driver was training so we had two, Forest and Steady. Forest was hilarious, really crazy. He sang for most of the journey well tried to anyway. There were some really nice people on the bus today which was cool. We got to Base which was the name of the hostel. It was massive, there was a huge bar area with loads of decking outside, you then went down about 2 steps and you were on the beach, it was really cool.When we f...