We spent almost a whole day on a coach from Airlie Beach to Cairns setting off at 930 only to arrive at 1930! The only good thing was the movies as we got to watch Fining Nemo and Titanic! Cairns rained both days we were there but it was actually nice after weeks of the blazing sun and it kept the humidity down too. We had 3 nights in a hostel in total and Cairns was a lot bigger and had a lot more going on than we had first thought. Unfortunately our diving trip...

I was initially worried that this trip wouldn't match up to Fraser island as we had had such a great time there but luckily it was really good and an altogether very different experience. Airlie beach itself wasn't that nice and the hostel we stayed in called Koalas was horrible. the room smelt of urine even after they moved us 3 times and there was a dead rat in the kitchen as well as another running around! We were really lucky to sail in the end as th...

We have been travelling for a week now and it seems longer as we have done so much! We got the over night coach from Sydney to Byron Bay which was just gorgeous! It was so refreshing to be on a quiet beach after Bondi and the water was so warm it was like swimming in a bath! We stayed in a little hoste which was really cool as there were only about 12 poeple and we all sat around chatting in the evenings. We spent both days we had there on the beach and one day N...