We flew direct to Ayers Rock from Cairns and booked ourselves in to a hostel in The Ayers Rock resort. We had already heard that the temperature in Ayers Rock was hovering around 45-50 degrees and were well prepared to be hot and sweaty and uncomfortable for a few days, what we weren't expecting was the number of flies which would be trying to eat us alive everytime we stepped outside. As soon as we stepped off the plane we were being attacked, anyone who knows B...

After Airlie Beach it was another Greyhound journey, which meant another fight to get on the bus with a ton of other backpackers, another grouchy bus driver who wants to shout at everyone, another uncomfortable bus seat, the worst movies that have ever been produced, all this on the way to Townsville where we were to get a ferry to Magnetic Island. Seriously though anyone who has been on a greyhound understands how bad the movies are on the bus, they are that bad...

We arrived in Hervey Bay ahead of our 3-day Fraser Island tour and spent the day lounging around the pool at the hostel. Then early evening we had a big meeting in the hostel where we met the other 7 people who we would be camping with and spending the next 3 days. We had an Aussie guy leading the meeting who made us all so depressed by doing the usual Aussie thing, going over the 1001 rules and ways you could be fined, loose your deposit/bond or get hurt/injured...

Most people head towards Surfers Paradise for the surf, beach and nightlife but not us we went there for the Theme Parks. The Gold Coast is the only place with Theme Parks in Australia, we went to the Warner Bros Studios - Movie World we couldn't afford to go to Dreamworld which is the more expensive roller coaster theme park. We had pre-booked a hostel, which was a good move as a lot of people were struggling for rooms, and we spent the afternoon chilling out,...

We booked a greyhound bus ticket all the way up the East coast, we thought it was a brilliant idea that the bus ticket is flexible and you can hop on and off the bus as and when you like as long as you don't go over your mileage. We turned up at the bus station an hour early as usual (Lisa still insists on being there very early after missing the bus in Florianopolis 2 months ago) and found lots of people hanging around waiting for the bus. A bus arrives and ever...