Friday 5th February We had to be at breakfast for 06:30 which a few people understandably struggled with. We went out in the jeeps and our first stop was the Red canyon. There are so many bugs on the island but the most annoying are these extremely large flies which land on you and pinch you if you don't swat them. Even when you swat them away they come back. Gaz kept telling us to let them land on us then squash them but I just couldn't it because it made me fe...

Thursday 4th February We got up early and checked out at 06:30 and got the mini bus to rainbow beach with 30 other people, who were heading to Fraser Island with us. When we got to Rainbow beach where we were picking the jeeps up from we got split in to groups of four. Three cars had 8 people in which were the people who were all going to be driving the jeeps, then the lead vehicle for the non drivers which was driven by our tour leader Gaz. Me and Kirsty were p...

Wednesday 3rd February Although i was asleep by 11pm last night I was awake by 5am paranoid about bugs on the ceiling above me. This is one reason I hate the top bunk. I'm way too close to where the bugs crawl. The second reason is just how much of a pain it is getting up and down it, especially when you need to wee in the middle of the night! So between 5-7am I couldn't sleep, once I finished worrying about the bugs, I heard a group get up to go to Fraser so wh...

Tuesday 2nd February. I was sad to check out of our hostel as we had a great group in our room, but that's part of travelling I guess. We went for breakfast with Briana and Laura in Guilty Rogue then went across the road to the transit centre to get our bus. All of our buses are with the Greyhound company which is more like a coach, and has a charger point for each seat and temperamental wifi, but isn't too bad and is more comfortable than I was expecting it to ...

Monday 1st February. Moving day. Today was the first day of the package we booked up which means we had to move hostel to the Base Uptown Hostel. It was a ten minute walk from the YHA but closer to the centre so we moved our stuff down in the morning but couldn't check in. We decided to give the botanic gardens another go now that we both felt fresh. We took a walk down and wandered around the whole of the gardens. It was 34 degrees again so still really hot but...