We went for lunch at the Lebanese place and shared a veggie deluxe plate- falafels, vine leaves, Baba Ganoush, hummus, flat bread, tabouli, spinach and feta pie and a really nice rice, lentil and onion dish. After that we just chilled out at the lagoon. We watched a film which we requested to be 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' but it was a weird Mexican film where a woman married a drug dealer but loved his brother. We wanted to go out in fortitude v...

We allowed ourselves a nice little lie in, and then drove into the centre of Brisbane to find Brisbane Backpackers resort. I got a bit disorientated whilst looking at the map because I thought we were at the other end of the A3 road, and the signs were a bit misleading but we got there in the end. There were programs for the Brisbane Festival, which we had seen signs for whilst driving in- looks like we got here at a good time! There's some cool looking stuff l...

Alice had eaten some yummy veggie burgers on the Fraser trip, and so I asked at reception where they came from, and so we both brought some from the butchers and then used the computers at Tribal Travel. After that we set off for Hervey Bay, since we had a whale watching trip booked. It was slightly annoying as that meant we had to go back up the East Coast, but we got to get so close to some of the whales that it was worth it. They were selling a CD with whale...

Once we got to Brisbane (around 3 am after going through baggage reclaim) we had to wait around in the arrivals lounge for a few hours until 6 which was the first train to Roma St. Station (where we were going to get the train from to go to Cairns). However I checked my email using the free Wi-Fi, and had received a message from Queensland Travel to say that due to severe flooding, they were disconnecting the line from Townsville to Cairns, and to phone them (f...