We arrived in Rainbow Beach on Wednesday afternoon after a little car trouble and a quick "half hour" stop at an auto electrician in Gympie that very quickly turned into a two hour break. At least it was in the shade! It is quite a strange place because there is very little in the town in the way of shops and things to do, but it is busy almost throughout the year due its proximity to Fraser Island - it's only a ten minute ferry ride as opposed to the ...

Today we left Bargara behind us and travelled a little way south to a lovely little beachside town in the Great Sandy National Park called Woodgate Beach where we planned to do as little as possible for the day. The local store provided us with some fuel for our stomachs just before a bus load of pensioners arrived, which reinforced the fact that this was in fact a quiet little village that has yet to be transformed into the tourist honey pot that it could so ea...

After catching up on some much needed shut eye we had a busy day today of taking a leisurely trip into Bundaberg around midday and spending the afternoon lounging around by the pool. It was hard to fit so much into the day, but it was all in preparation for the evening's activity! Around 7:00pm we headed just up the road to Mon Repos beach, the location of the turtle hatchery and information centre. When we arrived at the information centre we were told that t...

We arrived in Bargara, just North of Bundaberg, yesterday afternoon and found that we had a brand spanking new apartment that overlooked the beach (just about) and that we were pretty much the only ones in the complex. After settling in we got ourselves booked onto a day trip out to Lady Musgrave Island and the Reef for the following day and had a rude awakening when we were told that the shuttle would pick us up outside the apartment at 5:45 in the morning!! One...

After leaving Palm Beach early this morning, today has been spent back in Brisbane as we had a few items on the agenda before heading north tomorrow. Our first activity of the day was down in Queen Street Mall - the main pedestrian shopping area - where David was having his head shaved for charity, after raising just over $300 for the Leukaemia Foundation. When we arrived there was a big stage with four chairs on it for the willing participants and an announce...