We had an amazing time at Magnetic Island and it must be one of the highlights of our trip so far. It was so relaxing and chilled out. We ended up staying there five nights instead of two because we liked it so much. We were going to dive here but never quite managed to get around to it! We stayed at Koala Bay Village in litttle wooden huts which were really comfortable. It was such a small area of the island that the hostel bar closed at 10.30pm each night. L...

Whitsundays were pretty amazing. Had a relaxing time on the boat just soaking in the sun. Whitehaven beach was amazingly beautiful! Also did two lots of snorkelling off the boat. The first time it took me a while to get used to it but saw some amazing coral and rainbow coloured fish. At the second site the skipper threw food in and all the fish surrounded us. There were thousands of them and you could feel them all swimming beside us. Incredible! We also had a ...

We arrived in Byron Bay only expecting to stay for 3nights but have already been here for 5. When we arrived we met Luke who was also staying at Cape Byron Lodge with us. None of us had a phone number or any idea where our hostel was so we lingered for a while before asking a stranger for directions. He vaguely pointed us off and we trekked for 30mins having to ask two other people for help as well. We finally got there, flung our bags off and went to recpetion. ...

Cairns, Australia Rosie's Backpackers We flew here from Alice Springs on Quantas Jetstar. When we arrived we were told to look for an unmarked white van which would take us directly to the hostel from the airport free of charge. This was harder than it sounded so we range the hostel. They told us they would contact the driver and surely enough she soon turned up. About 15minutes later we pulled up at our accomodation for the next three nights. It didnt ...

Darwin to Alice Springs, Australia Adventure tours, Shara Ok, another stage of the journey. Basically i am going to bullet point what we did. I am in Airlie Beach while i am writing this and trying to catch back up. This wasnt a particualry exciting stage of the journey and the photos i have taken generally dont need anything else to be added. So here goes... 1) Devil's Marbles- amazing and in my opionion much better than uluru 2) Thermal pool full ...