After hearing mixed reviews, but mostly positive experiences, I bit the bullet and checked in to the party hostel Gilligan's in Cairns. It has a hotel style lobby and is absolutely huge with its own nightclub right outside. A rather sully looking receptionist took the money from me and handed me my room key. When I walked in to the room I met a few of the girls that were already staying there. They were a group of four travelling together and although they s...

The sun was once again shining and the temperature rising before I left Airlie Beach and I began to wonder if I should have extended my stay to make the most of the weather that I have been craving for so long during my last few weeks in Sydney. But everything was booked, so I stuck with the original plan. When I arrived in Townsville I had about an hour to wait for the ferry across to Magnetic Island. And I cannot for the life of me think why they cannot coo...

Arriving in Airlie Beach at 7am with only a few snatched hours of sleep I was somewhat dazed and confused. I walked from the coach station to the backpackers that my paperwork for my Whitundays tour specified that I should check in to. Once I reached the stated destination I was amazed to find that it had shut down! I called the quoted number to check that my tour was still going ahead and was overwhelmingly relieved to find it was. From here I walked along the...

I arrived in 1770/Agnes Water last Tuesday at around 6pm. I had suffered some travel sickness on the journey to my destination and despite attempting to sleep to try to ward off the threat of nausea was unable to get any shut eye. And so I stumbled off the coach in somewhat of a daze to collect my bag and take the minibus to my hostel and who should call my name to attract my attention, but Leanne the girl I had made friends with in Hervey Bay and Fraser Island...

Next stop was Hervey Bay the gateway to Fraser Island with a Happy Gilmore viewing en route. I arrived at the transit centre and caught the free shuttle to Nomads in Hervey Bay for one night's stay before our Fraser Island trip (included in the cost of the tour). On the drive there I was told that they were running low on drivers (as you have to be over 21) for the Fraser self-drive tour. This meant that my umm-ing and arr-ing on whether to drive the 4WD jeep o...