After a leaving sunny Cairns with 35 degrees temperatures we took a midnight plane to Melbourne, landing at 5.30am and the temperature being 4degrees!! We were freezing!! The hostel kindly allowed us into our room early so we managed to get a little sleep before starting the day, we also managed an extra free breaky!! Melbourne was a real funky city with a real mixture of old traditional buildings with new modern arty ones. We spent the day looking around the par...

We are now on our last week in Australia and its going way to quick for us. After the town of 1770 we travelled to Kroombit Cattle Station, and fortunately were on a bus full of people we had already met so we knew it was going to be a fun few days. The Cattle Station was set in thousands of acres of land in the middle of nowhere and had no luxuries - everything was old fashioned!! We got comfortable in our rooms and we decided to do the optional activity of hors...

We have been so busy in the last 5 days and had the most amazing times, doing things we never expected to do. We caught the bus from Noosa to Rainbow beach for an over night stop before Hervey Bay and our Fraser Island trip. We arrived at 5pm in Rainbow beach, checked in and went to the beach to see the different coloured sand cliffs which makes the town so famous. We were lucky to catch the sunset which was beautiful against the cliffs, a nice purple colour. We ...

We have had such an amazing time so far. Byron Bay was lovely, we spent a whole day walking around the coastal rainforests, around Byron bays headlands, which was beautiful, spotting all sorts of wildlife, including lizards and bush turkeys. The following day we took the bus to Surfers Paradise, which was completley opposite to Byron bay, much bigger, more buisnesses, much more of seaside resort. It was raining in the morning, but came out nice in the afternoon, ...

We have been in Australia for 6 days now, and cant believe how quickly it has gone, and how much we have done so far. We arrived in Sydney, after another long plane journey, we should be getting used to them by now but we think its getting worse!! When we arrived in Sydnay at 6am, we couldnt believe how cold it was - we were freezing!!! It is still much warmer than England but we have clearly got used to Asia temperatures and was not prepared!! Its Australias Spr...