We arrived in Brisbane in the darkness, parted with Elena who was going to stay with relatives and set off to find our hostel. We had decided to walk and save $5 it was only supposed to take 20 minutes or so but we ended up walking in the wrong direction for a kilometre so it took us a bit longer. That night, we splashed out on a proper dinner and spent the night in the hostel bar. We treated ourselves to a lie in but this meant that we didn't actually get outsi...

We got to Noosa at midday, so had the rest of the day to explore the town. It's a pretty small place and really expensive but nice. We sat on the beach for a bit, watching the surfers but got up and left when it started raining. The majority of the day was spent walking to and around Coles, doing a food shop for the next 3 days. Back at the hostel we took part in a foosball tournament, all of us lost, although me and Grace both got to the second round! Then it w...

There's not much to do in Hervey Bay, just sit and wait until you can go to Fraser Island or shower after you come back. Our day in Hervey Bay was spent sitting around and food shopping, not very exciting at all. The next day we were up at 5am and our Fraser Island adventure began. We had to watch a safety video and pack the cars up so we didn't actually get onto the island until around 10. You have to be 21 to drive the car which meant that we had to sit a...

We got off the Greyhound, after a wonderful night's sleep in a cramped seat and arrived in Airlie Beach on Monday. We booked our 3 day, 2 night tour to the Whitsunday islands for the next day and had a pretty relaxed day walking around the town. Grace, Elena and Charlie spent a couple of hours shopping while I spent a couple of hours standing outside the shops. We made our way to the port for 11 and picked up our very attractive stinger suits and boarded our boa...

At 5am, in Darwin airport, we met up with Elena and became a group of 4, travelling the East Coast. We all had the same flight to Cairns and booked a hostel while we were waiting around so that we got a free airport pick up. Cairns is a pretty nice place, I don't really think that there's too much there and it looked exactly the same as Darwin. We spent the first day walking down the esplanade, where there were loads of 'beware of the crocs' signs despite there...