We woke up early in the morning to load the 4WD up (four wheel drive), and then we had a little chat with our tour guide. As we checked out, we got a telling off from the woman at the hostel due to the room being very untidy, as she said that a guest arrived into our dorm and couldn't work out which bed was free, as our mess was all over the spare bed haha, woops. Good start...STANDARD REALLY. After taking the short five minute ferry ride over to the largest san...

Rainbow Beach is a tiny little place, and you either go there or Hervey Bay to set off on the trip to Fraser Island. The greyhound bus, after taking 5 and half hours from Brisbane (granted with a 40 minute stop), dropped us off at the street where a handful of hostels were situated. We arrived and took the short walk to ours and it was comfortable enough, although like many hostels, the air con was on a timer and didn't work until the evening. On the first eveni...

I left Alice Springs in what looked more like British conditions, rather than Australian ones. It poured, but they can't be used to it, because the runway staff on the tarmac was smiling away whilst it tippled down. When I was on the plane, the gentleman next to me said "it doesn't feel like Alice springs, it feels more like we're taking off from Manchester Airport". He wasn't far wrong. I did a bit of thinking on the plane that was nearly 3 hours lon...

Noosa is a nice little surf town, situated on the Sunshine coast. The ironic thing for us on this trip is that during our visit to the sunshine coast, we've had around half an hour of sun, and the rest of time it has just rained. Ah well, what will be, will be. It was a tad frustrating however watching the Ashes on TV from sunny Adelaide, whilst we were inside our hostel with the rain pouring from the roof. Especially as we had contemplated going down to watch ...

Hi all. First proper blog entry here and I intend on making it a short one. Let me start with one thing....AUSTRALIA IS EXPENSIVE. It works out at around 2 Great British Pounds for a can of coke, so suffice to say I make do with filling the Water up from the same old rusty bottle, as there are plenty of water fountains here. You get used to it though, and there are still some cheap-ish places if you look around, but for anyone just turning upto Australia, don't...