Our next stop on our travels down the east coast of Australia was Rainbow Beach. As with a lot of other towns down the coast, there isn't much there aside from a beach, a cafe or two, a shop and a hostel. Our reason for stopping there was that it's the departure point for Fraser Island, which is definitely one of those places you have to see when in eastern Australia. In fact we literally had to see it, as there was no point in hanging around rainbow beach otherw...

I really cant put into words how unbelievably amazingly incredible today was!!! You have to look at the photos but even they probably don't do it justice...compared to actually being there. Today's activity was Whale Watching. Yet another early day to make our departure to the Blue Dolphin II. I was a little apprehensive of what to expect...and even wondering if we would actually see anything of any significance as I had previously been on a "whale watchin...

Airlie Beach is another tiny town on the coast which doesn't have much to it except the activities it gives you access to. Our Ozbus driver insisted on calling it "scary beach" as well, which was hilarious on every single one of the 375 occasions he did it in the space of a few hours. The town itself was a nice place that primarily catered for tourists and our room at the hostel was more like a 1970s house, complete with a kitchen that was completely em...

The first day of our Oz bus experience began with a driver named Forest, he was alright as far as they go, they always try and be so funny and wacky, sometimes it works and they are actually funny and sometimes it doesn't. On our way to our first stop of Mission Beach we stopped off at a crocodile farm for an hour or so, and as you can tell from the photos it was well worth it. it only cost $14 to get in and they basically take you on a tour of the farm and intro...

For our next stop it was back up to the tropical heat and hospitality of Cairns. The place isn't much to look at, but it's primary draw is it's proximity to the Great Barrier Reef. Our hostel was a funky little place called Calypso which had a really friendly, chilled out atmosphere and incredibly helpful staff. The food wasn't half bad either. Anyway, our first day there was fairly uneventful as all we did was explore the town. Well, when I say we explored the t...