16 March 2009 Today we boarded our bus from Rainbow Beach for Noosa which only took about 3 hours. We arrived midday and caught a free shuttle bus to our hostel. The hostel was very nice and chilled with each couple of rooms having their own living room and kitchen. After checking in and dropping our bags we headed out to explore the area around the hostel. We were just around the corner from a lovely strech of beach and as it was such a lovely day we decided to...

14 March 2009 The four of us met early this morning to meet Adan, the man we had hired the 4WD from. We went over to his 'yard to read through our contract before we went. It was quite scary and seemed like he would make us pay for every single thing if something went wrong. We had to leave a $2000 bond in case something did happen. We were told that the worst thing to do would be to drive through saltwater, and therefore we should head over to Fraser around mi...

13 March 2009 Our bus driver had said 'Here's Rainbow Beach, blink and you'll miss it' when she dropped us off here and she was definately right! It took us about 5 minutes to explore the town - im not sure it can be called that though it was so small, so we decided we needed to go to Fraser Island or move onto somewhere else. Natalie and Catherine, 2 girls we met on the Oz bus in Cairns, asked us if we wanted to hire a car with them and go over to the island f...

11 March 2009 Today we departed from Airlie Beach for our longest journey on the Ox experience. It took us about 10 hours to reach Kroombit cattle station with a short break on the way to play some bare foot bowls in a remote town off the east coast! Oz experience do this so that you have a break in between long journeys and a chance to sample some local culture. Me and Lucy were not the best and bowls but it was nice to have a break from the bus. The bus was be...

08 March 2009 This morning we woke up on Magnetic Island expecting it to be destroyed after all the hype over the cyclone. However when we got up the weather was lovely - calm and sunny. We therefore had no problems getting the ferry back over to Townsville and then our second Oz Experience bus at 1pm to Airlie Beach. Quite a few people we met on our first bus went to Airlie beach yesterday as they were so worried about the ferry being cancelled, but it seems we...