Mission beach The day had come round very quickly, it was time to jump out of a plane. We got up at 6am in time to be picked up at 7. When the bus arrived they were looking for 4 jess' but there was only the 2 of us. It appeared that they had a booked us in twice meaning we may have to wait until the people from Cairns arrived later before we did our skydive. Not a great start but we weren't going to let that worry us. The woman driving us was an experienced sky...

The hostel was unbelievable. The bar looked out over the beach with the hostel rooms further back following the line of the sea. The pool was also looking out to sea. As we walked in there was a great atmosphere created by chilled music and the wooden bar area extending the beach theme. Our hostel room was a triangular shack. We had heard that the best way to see the island was to rent a 4x4. We started trying to get a group of people together to share the cost...

Airlie beach We arrived in the pouring rain, it was late and as we walked up to the hostel we heard cheers and antics. We walked through quickly to get our keys. The atmosphere at the hostel wasn't quite what we were used to with most people there over 25. Perhaps it was because this hostel was located slightly out of town. But we met a lovely American girl in our room. And by the time we left she had been offered a job at the hostel and planned to stay another ...

We had booked the tour through the woolshed hostel so we were able to leave our bigs bags there and stay a night either side of the 3 days on Fraser Island. Our initial thoughts of Hervey Bay was that it was a strange town with lots of retired people and not much going on. We arrived there in the evening after a comfortable 5 hour bus ride. The greyhound buses were proving a convenient way to travel around Australia. Day 1 The guide that picked us up from our h...

Jayne and I arrived in our room at nomads hostel to find clothes and belongings cluttering the 6 person bed room. We found out later that the guys staying in the room had lived there 4 months while they were working. Luckily when I complained about a faulty locker we were moved us to a smaller tidy room. That evening we headed to Southbank across the river. Brisbane festival was going on and we sat by the river eating street food surrounded by fairy lights and in...