We arrived in Rainbow beach from Hervey Bay hoping to go to Fraser Island the next day. unfortunately the trip was full and we had to spend three nights in Rainbow Beach where there is nothing to do. eventually it was our turn to go. there were four 4x4s with eleven people on each. our car had us, four Irish girls, two Norwegian girls, a Dutch boy, a Swiss boy and a Canadian girl. on our first day we went to Indian Head and saw some whales in the distance, unfor...

We were picked up at 7.30 in the morning! Made a stop at featherdale wildlife sanctuary. More animals kangaroos, dingos etc etc. Then onto the Blue mountains, made a stop and took a couple of snaps of the views, the three sisters. Left some people behind as they were taking to long! Our tour guide said he would go back for them later. We then stopped at what was like a mini theme park for the mountains called scenic world. We paid for the ticket that let you on a...

Sydney well we arrived in Sydney at the wrong time as it was world youth day for nearly the whole time we were there. We wondered around Sydney our first day just learning to get around the city. Its a lovely city colder than up north but we arrived on a bright sunny day so that made up for the coldness. On our second day we joined in with the pilgrams and walked over Sydney harbour bridge. they had closed it to the traffic so we were able to walk with the thousa...

Today me and Liz went to on our winery tour. After an eventful morning our hostel had a mad gun man in! We woke up early to get our breakfast ready for a full day of wine tasting. When we were pushed outside our hostel as some random weirdo staying there had a gun and was showing it to people. So Australian SWAT team arrived at our hostel. Any way we left as we had to get to our mini bus to be picked up for our wine tasting tour. It was a really fun day one of th...

we arrived in Brisbane to cloudy skies and rain and trudged up the road to Chill backpackers where we were staying. it was very nice and clean we described as a posh backpackers hotel. the weather ruined our first day so we weren't overly impressed at first. the next day the weather was better and we met Chris and Tina who we were in the Whitsundays with and we had a lovely walk around the lagoon, market and river front. it was very nice and helped change our op...