After our fantastic trip in the whitsundays (in which we got fed loads) and the hurricane stricken airlie we took an overnight bus to our final distination Cairns. After a rubbish sleep on the bus and arriving in the pouring rain at 6 in the morning we managed to make our way to our hostel, only to find out we couldnt check in for another 6 hours...not what you want to hear after no sleep and pouring rain. So we set about having breakfast and watching some tv un...

Just a quick one guys to fill you in! Arrived in Airlie beach after visiting the wonderful city of Childers ( a SMALL fruit picking town)! we caught the bus at about 6pm with the bus driver announcing we couldnt get to Airlie Beach beacuse of hurricane Ullui! he was addament the roads were closed but we set off none the less! the story kept on becoming more exciting with reports that the whole town ahd been closed by the police, there was no electricity, food or...

Just a quick one guys to fill you in! Arrived in Airlie beach after visiting the wonderful city of Childers ( a SMALL fruit picking town)! we caught the bus at about 6pm with the bus driver announcing we couldnt get to Airlie Beach beacuse of hurricane Ullui! he was addament the roads were closed but we set off none the less! the story kept on becoming more exciting with reports that the whole town ahd been closed by the police, there was no electricity, food or...

Sorry its taken me so long to write but here goes the last 10 days! So after we settled down in Brisbane we had a walk round the city which was nice but the weather wasnt great! and the following day we ventured to the Lone Pine Koala sanctuary which was lovely! We got to cuddle koalas feed kangaroos and come a little too close to snakes for my liking (pictures to follow). After Brisbane we went to Noosa, a surfing town further north. Noosa was good although th...

Sorry its taken me a while to write since byron bay! After byron bay we made our way up to Surfers paradise which is a pretty big town with lots of sky scrapers right along the beach! The hostel we stayed in was nice but the people werent unfortunately so there wasnt really a family feeling there but none the less we made the most of it! The weather was good when we arrive so we dumped our stuff and headed to the beach which was really nice, with loads of surfe...