We got our second to last greyhound bus to Noosa, which is a seaside town north of Brisbane. We checked in at our hostel which seemed nice but our room mates had claimed the whole room!! (this is not good dorm etiquette) so I moved there stuff off our beds and we went to explore. There was a welcome meeting at the hostel and we made some friends! We finally met our room mates who were miserable and had put their towel back on our beds to dry!! (the cheek).  The...

We left the Whitsundays on a bus to Hervey Bay where our Fraser Island 4x4 driving would begin.  It started with a group meeting the night before to get alcohol and food but as it was ANZAC day (bit like Remembrance Sunday) everything was shut except the Spar and the bottle shop!  We were up and checked out by 6.30 so we could watch a video about driving on sand and dingeo safety (like foxes but vicious). We loaded up the cars and set off, there were 28 peopl...

We arrived in Airlie Beach on Easter Sunday (no chocolate this year!!) after a night on the greyhound bus! We both managed to get some sleep which was good as we had to walk about 20mins to the hostel in the boiling sunshine (it's a hard life!) The hostel is a bit crappy but it's only one night so we go and check in for our boat trip.  Up the next day and pack ready to set sail at lunchtime. Our boat is called the Broomstick and holds 25people (it's a bit cosy ...

We arrive in a very humid Cairns and got to the hostel fine only to find we were locked out!! After a bang on the gate and a phone all we got in to our room. Our first day was spent wondering around trying to decide which tour company to go to the Great Barrier Reef with as there are about 4million!!! After about 2 hours we found a nice travel agent who sorted it all out and we were good to go. We went on the steam train to Karunda (a little village) which took...

Hi, We landed in a rather empty airport wondering what we had let ourselves in for. The 'big' farm I could see from be plane turned out to be the airport!!! We made it to our hostel and looked around the town (took about 15mins). We went back to the hostel and pack our small bags to take with us, very exciting not having to carry my big backpack!!! I think I was more excited about this than anything else! We went to bed early as had to be up at 4.30am (didn't e...