After a short bus ride from Noosa, wearrived in Brisbane at lunch time, and Nat and I were lucky to find a twin room in a hostel, as almost everywhere seemed to be full. Meanwhile, Nush had some free nights accommodation to use up, so she stuck with her Fraser Island gals. The hostel Nat and I stayed in was out of the centre in a nice little suburb with lots of boutiques and cafes that we wandered past that afternoon on our way to the supermarket, wishing we had ...

(Kat again) So on Wednesday we arrived in Noosa at about 3, and checked in to a lovely backpacker's resort near the river, where in our room it was just Nat and i, 2 other girls and an ensuite bathroom, yay! We booked our tickets for Australia Zoo for the next day, and wandered to the local Woolworths to stock up on food, and the local JayJays (my favourite cheap clothes shop) where i bought some jeans and pyjamas, which was very exciting since i was sick to deat...

I'll write about mine and Nat's time in Hervey Bay and Fraser Island, as Nush arrived here later than us, so she can add her own experiences later... So Nat and i caught the night bus from Airlie Beach to Bundaberg where we arrived at 6.45am, and after waiting for an hour for the only decent looking hostel to open, were rudely told there was no space and to get off their private property (not giving us the nicest first impression of the town). From what we could...

Kat here now, so Nush left you saying that we caught the bus down to Airlie Beach where we arrived late afternoon, and luckily Nat and I managed to book up a Whitsundays and Fraser Island package immediately that commenced the following day! Nush decided against it as she was very conscious of her lack of money, so she chose to wait and do a one day whitsundays trip instead to help the budget. We didn't do too much in Airlie Beach as it was quite late already, bu...

The day after Uncle Brian's tour we got our first Greyhound bus down to Townsville, which was a fairly nice looking town, but it was very empty apart from the drunken Aborginal people that give Aborgines a bad name. Unfortunately the hostel we stayed in turned out to be quite dodgy with a few strange men staying there, so we stayed in our room and decided to move somewhere else in the morning!The next day we went to Magnetic Island, which would have been really b...