Only when travelling. There I was packing up my belongings ready to leave Noosa when I hear my name from the doorway. Michelle,from the Whitsundays, is standing there staring into my room waving at me. What a coinkidink! We set of for a coffee where we sorted out her life and planned her holiday to Thailand to meet me before I, once again, had to jet off to catch my last Greyhound to Brisbane. A fairly painless journey (as it was only two and a half hours long...

26.2.11 A fairly nondescript day really. After saying good bye to Michaela I was up early and on the 11:45 bus to Noosa which arrived at 3:30. The bus ride was uneventful and the evening was basically spent organising my bags, paperwork and correspondence. The hostel was fairly pleasant but bloody expensive! I totally forgot how expensive things got down south and resented handing over $31 for an eight bed dorm but... the bed was nice and ensuite so... heyho....

22.2.11 On arrival in Hervey Bay I got into a mini bus to 'Nomads Hervey Bay ' and met a lovely British girl called Michaela on the bus, who was doing the same trip as me. Although a lot of people may have reservations about travelling alone I have loved it so far and this was another example as to why. So many other people are doing it! You are never really alone and you do so much more and meet so many more people this way. Another reason why I love travell...

Our last day on the boat started with a 6:30am snorkel. Aksel, Sabine and I were the first of 120 people in the water. The other passengers on our boat and the surrounding ones were still asleep so we made a 'swim' for it and got in early to try and catch 'Elvis' a HUGE 3ft long Mauri Wrass who hangs out at Blue Haven Bay. It took us about 10 minutes to find him but once we had him we didn't let him out of our site. We played with him, stroked him, chased him a...

A very early morning due the fact that we were sleeping outside and being woken but the sun. Not that I am complaining as I just couldn't wait to get into that water. We had another wonderful feast for breakfast courtesy of Braden and then he took us out to Whitehaven Beach for a morning hike and swim. Whitehaven is possibly the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. It changed constantly with the tide and Braden told us that a lot of the sand had been blown a...