We touched down at Phuket airport around 2pm and got the shuttle bus that was said to take around 40mins to Phuket town, this was proven to be wrong as it took us around 2 hours to get there. We found a nice guest house and sat outside and had some beers, why not when they were less than a pound, something we could get use to. We didn't do much that night apart from get something to eat at a hotel. J had an opportunity to have his first real thai green curry an...

On the flight to Singapore Rachel noticed more and more bites on her legs, which we recognised as bed bugs! She had about 50 just on her legs so the first thing we did the next morning was wash all of our clothes and keep them in plastic bags, we should have done our bags too but the washing machine at the hostel was not big enough so hopefully it is enough. We don't think she has had anymore yet. That took up all the morning so in the afternoon we headed to Ch...

We arrived in the morning from a horrible night bus. We had a drunk man sitting behind us who wanted to keep everyone awake! At Gilligans hostel we were told that we couldn't check in until 1pm, this wasnt the best news we had. We were both starving so we took a wonder around and come across a McDonalds...perfect place to brighten up anybodys day. After we went back to the hostel and chilled in the tv lounge area. Thankfully the tennis was on so we watched th...

We had heard rumours that the weather wasn't too good further north, but hoped it would improve. Sadly it didn't and we had a couple of cloudy days with patchy rain for our Whitsundays trip. We booked on a boat named Samurai which was a 2 night 3 day sailing trip around the Whitsunday Islands. There were 24 other backpackers on board and 3 crew members. Despite the weather the trip was awesome. On the first day we sailed to the largest Island, Whitsunday Island a...

Our next stop on was 1770. There were 5 other people travelling with us there who were on our Fraser Island trip. We arrived at 7pm and checked in to our hostel; Cool Bananas. We went out and grabbed some fish and chips before catching up on the blog and getting an early night before our next trip; Castaway! Our briefing for the flight to the island was in the morning. We were told what we needed for the night and informed of our flight time. We were flying at ...