We are now back at home after spending the weekend on a four wheel drive tour over on Moreton Island, just off the Brisbane coast. It is one of the biggest sand islands in the world and only a short ferry ride across from the city. We were due to be picked up at 6:30am on Saturday morning from the transit centre in the city and had ourselves all packed and ready to go on Friday night in advance of our early start the next day and we realised just how important t...

We are currently recovering from last nights escapades as Brisbane said a sad farewell to Miss Woods. We met her at Irish Murphy's (her choice) where things were already well underway with some of her friends from the hostel before heading into a small park over the road next to the casino for a free concert. There had been a few bands playing for the last hour or so and the headliners, Youth Group, were about to take to the stage so after a stop at the bar we...

The Brisbane River Festival has been ongoing since the start of the month and yesterday evening was 'Riverfire', the finale to the celebrations. Each year there are loads of free events on and around the river including stalls, BBQ's, theatre performances, art shows and the aforementioned 'Riverfire', which is basically one big party along the river. We took a walk down to the lagoon after dinner to find the whole place was absolutely packed, so we shuffled...

We are now back in Brisbane after our short jaunt down to the Gold Coast for the weekend and we are now (unofficially) surfing gods!! We arrived on Saturday morning and got ourselves booked into a nice little campsite in Main Beach, just five minutes from Surfer's Paradise. As this was the first time that we had been to Surfer's sober we went for a walk around the main strip in the morning before coming back to our little bit of sand for a lounge around in the...

The last few weeks have seen a few people coming and going at our place and we are currently joined in Brisbane by one Miss Lynsey Woods! The start of the month saw Chris and Kat leaving Brisbane to continue south along the coast. No sooner had they left the sunshine state then Lynsey and Marcus rolled into town in their camper van, so we showed them around South Bank (well, the bars at least) and left them to explore the rest of the city. After a couple of...