15/9/9 Kroombit to Airlie Beach We left Kroombit early after a breakfast of cereal toast and beans.....yummy!! We had the longest drive of ten hours to Airlie so after a few hours drive the journey was broken up with a game of bare foot bowls at Rockhampton. We played two ends of green bowls with bare feet as the title suggests. It was a good job no-one else was playing as we managed to send our balls across three different lanes!! It was a good laugh and broke ...

14/9/9 Monday 1770 to Kroombit We set off on the bus heading towards Kroombit Cattle station, our home for the night. We stopped in a small town called Miriam Vale for breakfast and then headed inland through a town called Biloela, Aboriginal for white cockatoo. just outside of that town was the working cattle station at Kroombit. The cattle station was great with an outside dining area, open fire with a jerry can boiling over it, a calf tethered up and a barbec...

Sunday 13/9/9 Rainbow to 1770 We left Rainbow Beach with a new driver Scooter and the smelly girls from our Fraser trip. It is not good in the confines of a bus and we were all suffering with the smell, goodness knows how they couldn't smell themselves !!! We passed through one of Queensland's oldest towns, Maryborough, where the writer of Mary Poppins, P L Travers, was from. There was a statue of Mary in the main street and the town had some fantastic old Queen...

9/9/9 Weds Mooloolaba-Rainbow Beach Matt made us sausage and bacon sandwiches for breakfast and then we said our goodbyes to the family. We headed off to meet our bus up which was waiting at the stop for us even though we were really early. We set off and travelled to Noosa for an hour stop. We got ourselves an icecream and waited for the bus which left to drive to Rainbow Beach from where we are going to Fraser Island. We checked into our hostel called Frasers ...

7/9/9 Monday Brisbane to Mooloolaba We woke early to catch the early bus out of Brisbane northbound towards Mooloolaba where we are jumping off to see matt and his family. Bunny was the driver and she was alovely girl from Western Australia. She had worked in the mines so Phil and she had loads of chats about mining stuff. We travelled towards the sunshine coast via the glasshouse mountains which are a strange looking group of 13 volcanic peaks. They were named ...