After waiting for the bus for 4 hours and then spending a further 12 hours on the bus I finally arrived in Hervey Bay. To be honest this is going to be a really short entry as firstly Hervey Bay itself was like a retirement village really sleepy and not much going on....... Secondly it rained the whole time I was there so the day I did a day trip to Fraser Island was a complete washout apart from seeing a pretty cool shipwreck, we couldnt really go swimming or ...

Surprise, surprise the next morning I woke up late for my bus and ran around like a mad womand to get to the bus terminal only for it turn up late typical!! We then spent the next 12 hours heading to Airlie beach probably one of the worst bus journeys ever with leaky air conditioning and a very moody bus driver suffice to say I got off miserable, soaking and with a banging headache. The next afternoon I was heading off for two night sailing the Whisundays on a ...

I arrived in Cairns after yet another plane journey to step off the plane to sweltering heat, it was still near enough 40 degrees at 4pm!! After giving the hostel a quick call for my pick up I was off to check in and make some dinner before having a relaxing glass of wine or two and getting ready for my reef tour the next day. The next day I went to the reef terminal nice and early to catch my boat and get ready for a busy day on the reef. Throughout the day we ...

I arrived in Brisbane at 1:30am to a very wet and windy welcome as we had just missed the cyclone phew!! Although I wasnt booked into the hostel into 3pm I decided to proceed anyway and take a chance in getting a bed for the night, I was staying in Fortitude Valley which I was told was the clubbing district of Brisbane which soon became apparent with loads of bars and clubs pumping music into the early hours unfortunately for me they stopped letting people in at ...