so afgter nimbins i decided i wasnt really going to hang around in byron, i wanted to get to sydenyey and short of surfing ithere wasnt anything i desperately wanted to do. spent the following day on the beach with a couple of poepl id met on the nimbins trip and then got a call from someone id met further up the coast asking if i was still in byron as they had just arrived on their own. so thats how i ended up staygin two extra nights and doing a two day surf sc...

met two girls on teh bus down to byron bay who are in NZ at the same time as me and need a thrid person for the camper van hire so i might be doing that when i get there. anyway, got to byron and met some people in teh dorm so just invited myself along for tea with them and had a few drinks, and booked to go to nimbins the next day. went with jims alternative tours, defo alternative. Nimbins is this wierd little time warped stoner town. its a like a blast from ...

How can a day get much better, got up at 7 for my free pancakes, got picked up at 8, flown up to 14,000feet over frasier island, jumped out of the plane, landed on rainbow beach, got back to the hostel, watched the dvd of the jump just in time for 10. got picked up again and taken to wolf rock to dive with the nurse sharks! The sky dive was incredible, i couldnt get the grin off my face the whole way up in the plane, my stomach did lurch a bit when they open the...

Rainbow beach is one of the places to get to Fraser from so that is the main reason people are here but there's a bit going on, since there is only really this one main hostel, dingo's, with everyone going across to Fraser its pretty lively. Went Dolphin Kayaking yesterday, bloody hard work but worth it, saw a manta ray and a pretty big pod of dolphins nearby, came swimming under the kayaks and stuff, really nice. tried to surf the wave back in but we caught it...

Fraser Island....the best thing ive done in oz so far by far. Its the biggest sand island in the world and has forest covering, fresh water lakes, creeks, and big beaches! Basically, you get put in groups of 10 or 11, get given camping gear, food, take your own alcohol, pile it on the roof of a big landcruiser, drive it on the barge. across the water and let loose on the island for three days. Ours turned out to be a heap compared to the others so we affectio...