18th july Melbourne to Christchurch a very early start for last minute packing for our flight to new zealand. panic stations! our flight was delayed due to foggy weather in christchurch so so were hanging around the airport for a few hrs before flying. we got a transfer shuttle from the airport to base hostel in christchurch, it is based right in city centre in cathedral square which was a great location. the hostel was ok, an old building. that evening we ate ...

13th july first day melbourne. we booked into a hostel in st kilda, just outside the city. stayed at base, which was a modern building and good facilities. (plus highly recommended by a guy we met on the whitsundays who worked there.) we were so tired on the first day from the long day of driving that we had long lie in, then spent the day getting things sorted out like our laundry etc. that night was neighbours night which we were really excited about! :) we...

5th july Byron Bay the land we stayed on last night was owned by mojo surf.... a guy we met in phi phi worked for them and as well as sorting us out half price surf lessons he directed us to the land as it would be free, and camp parks in byron are expensive! so after a good nights sleep we head into the town centre to make breakfast and find a camp site for that night as we needed to power up. our surf lesson was 12-4 at a beach just outside byron bay. we learne...

30th june Rockhampton-Rainbow Beachtoday i woke up with a stinking head cold! ..and so opted out of my turn to drive as we had a long one. we were heading to rainbow beach where we would do our fraser island trip from. along the way we stopped off at a place called childers for some lunch, which was a very interesting town.. very 'local' is all i will say.we then carried on the drive to rainbow beach, where we booked our day trip to fraser for the next day and bo...

25th june airlie beach we set off on our journey to airlie beach, as soon as we arrived we booked our trip for the whitsunday islands, originally we were doing one night trip, but got a good deal on a two night trip so took it, and decided to skip out great keppal island (further down the coast) so that we wouldnt get too behind the schedule. once that was booked we went to the shopping centre for a look around and i got a well needed haircut! that night we went ...