Last week or so has been pretty hectic, soo many day trips, so little time to write about them all! I flew to Alice Springs today where I'll start the ayres rock tour, and it is so cold here, definitely missing the sun on the east coast! So after Airlie I headed up to Magnetic island, where it seemed like everyone I'd met travelling so far all turned up at once. The girls I'd met on the Oz bus in Byron were there, as well as the guys I was in Kroombit with, th...

Next up on the agenda was the Whitsunday cruise, a two night boat ride to see one of the nicest beachest in the world: Whitehaven beach, with some snorkelling and sailing thrown in too. Cos I'm a crazy kid, I'd opted for the Tongarra boat, known as a party boat where the crew try and get you wasted the entire time. If there's anything I've learned from travelling so far it's that these 'drunken westerners ruining the peace and calm of stunning natural locations' ...

So I'd done the surfer dude thing, now it was time to experience another stereotypical aussie lifestyle: the cowboy. Kroombit is a genuine functioning cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere and is a compulsory stop on the Oz Experience bus. I don't think I've ever tried so many new things in one day before, it was brilliant. First off though we had another compulsory stop at a place called Emu Park, which ironically has no Emus in it, it's just the name of the...

Fraser island is one of the must-do trips that everyone raves about along the east coast, and with good reason, it's pretty awesome. It's the biggest sand island in the world complete with forests and sandblows and lakes... plus lots of dingos just to keep things interesting. Everyone explores it on one of the tag along 4WD tours where you take turns to drive along the beach with 7 other people in each car, then camp somewhere on the island. I had a great three...