We stopped at Brisbane for a day and not knowing what to expect found it was a city after having been staying at small beach resorts since Cairns. After a curry and sunset from the backpackers hostel - where we were given a 8 person bunked room to ourselves and yes we pushed them together and slept on the top bunk - we headed out to paint the town red or have a walk around as others might call it! We went on a ferry ride and walked down the main street queen stre...

We left Rainbow Beach in 4 x 4 with Martin as our first driver bombing it down to a ferry to take us to our new home Fraser Island! Lake McKenzie was our first destination after some crazy sand tracks. Martin was first in the water splashing round getting everybody all wet! He attempted a hand stand in the deep water which didn't quite work and capturing the best photo of the holiday, a foot sticking out the water! I didn't swim but Martin gave me a lift on his s...

Today we travelled from Emu Park to Rainbow Beach! We were picked up first thing by our newest Oz driver; Uncle Buck! It was a long drive with two important stops along the way. Firstly we were missing out a stop in a town called Agnes Water aka 1770 where you do a scooteroo which is a jolly around town on bikes in leather jackets with stick on tattoos! Martin was not happy so uncle buck thought of a way to cheer him up and took us go karting instead!!! Martin ov...

Wings collected us at 8am on the dot for our next adventure on the Oz experience. At first wings was non stop talking and refused to take the hint that both Sophie and myself are not the most talkative people in the morning however as soon he mentioned about stopping off for a good old fashioned Ozzy BBQ breakfast we all became the best of friends! We struck a deal with wings that he could choose the meat as long as he paid for it and we paid for the drinks and b...

On our latest adventure we went sailing around the Whitsunday Islands. We made our way from Magnetic Island through Ayr and Bowen or Bowenwood as it was where the film Australia was filmed. We stayed one night at Airlie Beach before boarding the sailing boat, The BroomStick, early the following morning where we were greeted with some good old fashioned English breakfast tea!! That night we watched whales dancing in the ocean whilst the sun set. After a rocky nigh...