A lovely chilled week was spent in the town of Cairns, ending our trip up the east coast nicely. There isn't a lot to the town, a barrage of souviner shops, ice cream parlours, travel shops - each offering 'the cheapest [insert random tourist attraction] tickets' and a sprinkling of bars, all highlighting their cheap drinks for the inevitable stream of backpackers starting or ending their Australian adventure here. Most of our time was spent at the lagoon. It ha...

So we arrived in the sleepy town of Townsville mid afternoon on Thursday. After a quick wander around the main square we soon realised that there was not going to be enough to entertain us (for free) for the following 4 days... HOWEVER! luckily, as fortune would have it - we were once again in the right place at the right time. Friday the 5th was the Full Moon party at one of the resorts on Magnetic Island (we'll not mention that it wasn't full moon til Sat...) s...

Currently in Airlie Beach, the gateway to the Whitsundays - some beautiful Islands that are the height of paradise. But I can't really afford paradise right now, so I'm appriciating the beauty from the mainland! After leaving Agnes Waters we stopped in Rockhampton (on a bus that broke down and a 3 hour journey took double that... arriving at 4am) I don't have a lot to tell you about Rockhampton, primarily because we stayed about 30mins east in a town called Emu ...

Once again, I seem to have negected to keep this up to date - so, attempting to keep my thoughts in order, much for my own benefit than for that of you the reader, this could be a long one... A little over 2 weeks ago I arrived in the town of Agnes Water. It's where C'apt Cook landed to in Queensland and is now known as the birthplace of the state. Where it gets a little confusing is Agnes Water and the Town of 1770 (named, I believe, after the year it was disco...

What do you get when you cross 9 strangers, a large pile of sand and a lack of food?? Well, it isn't bliss let me assure you, however the experience was an entertaining one. I signed myself up to a trip to Fraser Island, basically the largest sand island in the world, off the east coast. You are grouped up with 8 others and given a 4WD vehicle. Plonked on a ferry, and off you go. It was 6.30am and I found myself blinking at a tv screen. I was watching something ...