Surfers Paradise was our first stop in Queensland, and contrary to the name it actually isnt a great place to surf! Tuesday, after settleing in we decided to go to Dreamworl theme park and forget doing the tours. some of the rides were quite scary espescially the Giant Drop which really made our stomaches turn as it took us to the top of a giant tower held us there admiring the view for a while and then plummeting us back down with a jult when we were least expec...

So another early morning it was on Monday and another coach ride as we traveled to Townsville to catch a ferry to Magnetic Island. At the ferry port we bumped into Guy and Chris, two guys from our last hostel, Magnums, who we had met the night before and who were also on there way to Magnetic Island and to our same hostel again. We checked in... eventually, after the hostel told us they couldn't find our booking and ended up putting us in a room with no door on t...