Day 53-59 ChristmasArrived in Brisbane at about 4pm on the 23rd December, only took a few hours from Noosa on the greyhound. We are staying with Lauren's auntie and her 2 girls in a place called Mount Glorious (about 50 minutes from the centre of Brisbane). Living up the mountain means there are limited amenities such as shops, so before heading up the mountain we stopped in the local town of Samford to get some last minute essentials (beer & wine :) ). T...

Day 49 We survived the 15 hour coach trip from Airlie and are now in Rainbow beach which means we have less than a week until Christmas. We are missing all the lovely snow at home and can't believe this year will probably be a white Christmas at home...the first one in how many years? We're not feeling the Christmas spirit just yet, but looking forward to getting to Brisbane to be with family and think some Christmas cheer will come our way there :) There isn't...

Day 44 Arrived in Airlie Beach after taking a ferry into Townsville then a 3 hour coach journey down the east coast with Greyhound. Airle looks like such a party beach, cant enjoy it too much tonight though because we are heading out on our 3 day sailing adventure around the Whitsunday Islands tomorrow. Day 45, 46 & 47 Whitsundays sail - We are sailing on a catamaran called 'Wings' around some of the 74 Islands which make up the Whitsundays. We are well...

Day 42 Magnetic Island - or as its known by the locals 'Maggie'. Our bus arrived into Townsville this morning at 5.30 am and the earliest ferry to Magnetic was 6.30 am, so although only an hour wait, we had not slept a wink all night so were desperate for a bed! We arrived at our hotel at around 7am (ferry only took about 15 mins), to find out we couldn't check in until 11am :( after nodding off a few times we eventually got into our room but decided to push t...

Day 39 12 hours and 2 flights later we have finally arrived in Cairns, Australia. Our first flight left from Singapore and 5 1/2 hours later we landed in Darwin. We then had a 4 hours stop over in Darwin before taking another 2 1/2 hour flight into Cairns. We were initially a bit dubious before leaving Singapore as although our flight was booked with Qantas, the flight we were going on was operated by and airline called Jet Star. However it turned out to be a ...