Once we arrived back from the Whitsunday's Justin and I decided to stay in Airlie Beach for another three nights as we liked it so much. Most of the others we were travelling with left after one more night, as they wanted to continue travelling up the coast. Because we don't leave Cairns until mid-June we didn't really want to get there too early and wanted to spend a bit more time on the last leg of the journey. Justin and I went out for dinner that night on our...

We left Agnes Water/Town of 1770 in the evening and it was a long journey to Airlie Beach. The total bus trip was 10 hours, our longest since Melbourne to Sydney, and we decided to take the night bus. I forgot that this wasn't such a good idea! The driver put on a couple of films that I slept all the way through, and then once they had finished I couldn't sleep anymore. It was so uncomfortable and frustrating for everyone because we were all tired. We arrived at ...