Our final destination in Australia is upon us and I am FINALLY fully up to date with this blog! Maybe now you can read about things as I'm doing them, rather than weeks after the event!We arrived in Cairns after a long day of driving which was punctuated by a visit to a crocodile farm. I will freely admit I was very negative about this and entirely unable to understand why they would force us to stop at a farm for 90 mins and pay for the privilege. How wrong I wa...

Where can I start to describe a day that was pretty much a nightmare!? We left Airlie Beach and set off towards Townsville, where Sooz and I left the bus behind and stopped for lunch. This meant walking forever to the ferry to head over to Magnetic Island, which is probably where my bad mood began. My bag, although I love the wheels, can be difficult to pull. It doesn't have a sticky out handle so crashes into my legs alot. And the handle it does have absolutely...

The next part of our trip was kind of strange, in that the places we were going to were dictated to us by the Oz Experience people (they have compulsory overnight stops, most of which are at places you would want to go anyway!). First up was a tiny little place called 1770/Agnes Water. So named because of Captain Cook's voyage in 1770. They love that guy here. Too much, if you ask me! We arrived in the afternoon, after driving through a town called Maryborough - ...

We left Brisbane in a hurry. You'd think that having to get on a bus at 6.30am would mean you wouldn't encounter problems getting in the bathroom in the morning. But we did. Ended up with about 15 minutes for us both to get ready and out. I was most annoyed when I saw that the girl who had been holding us up was leisurely boiling water on the stove!We were driving to a little place called Rainbow Beach, but stopped off to look at the Glass House Mountains on the ...

Onto one of the highlights of our journey up the east coast...the one and only Fraser Island! We had opted for the 2 day 1 night guided tour. Most people seem to prefer the self-drive, but I had visions of that going very wrong, and it's always nice to learn something about the places you are going to! For those of you haven't been there, Fraser Island is massive sand island, stretching for 124km, a short distance away from the mainland. We were picked up i...