We headed into Airlie Beach for some breakfast after our last night in the holiday park, finding a nice cafe where we had a massive breakfast to set us up for another day of driving.Lucy took the first turn driving, as we made our way out of town and back towards the Highway, before heading north again.The first town we passed was Bowen, where Baz Luhrmann's Australia was filmed, then we reached Townsville in the early afternoon. We had originally planned to stop...

We got on board the Anaconda III after our briefing on Friday evening and found our small cabin down near the bow. It comprised of a double bunk with a single bunk above it and a little ensuite toilet and shower. We would be sharing with Nathan, the welsh guy we had met just before boarding the boat. We dumped our bags in the cabin and made our way back upstairs to have a safety briefing and introduction from the crew, which consisted of the captain, Baz, two cre...

The morning after our stay at the Capricorn Caves campsite, we drove the short distance down the road from the campsite to the caves themselves. We signed up for the first tour of the day and were soon being led up to a great crack into the nearby hillside and into the interesting dry limestone caverns. There were some great features in the caves, my favourites being the long roots of fig trees growing above the caves, which pushed through the rock and grew down ...

We arrived in the tiny beachside town of Agnes Water in the evening and made our way immediately to a backpackers called Cool Bananas where we had been told we could park the van and stay cheaply overnight. Our other reason for going here was to try and meet a university friend of Lucy's, Claire, and her sister Lisa who were also travelling up the east coast.We got parked up round the back of the backpackers which was very cool, with a big chilled out garden area...

We got up early the morning after staying at Rainbow Beach and grabbed a quick bit of breakfast before waiting at the bus stop outside our backpackers for our Fraser Island bus.After a few minutes our huge 4x4 bus pulled up on its big offroad wheels and we hopped on, grabbing 2 of the last few seats left on the 40 seater. We picked up the final passengers from around town before driving a few km up a peninsula from Rainbow Beach to the point where we caught the b...