Glad to be out of hervey bay and away from the awful weather we went to noosa next, this place is quality its got great shops, beautiful beaches, loads of bars and restaurants and rivers which carve there way through the town to the sea its a really naturally beautiful place. To keep ourselves occupied the first day we did a big walk which hugs the coastline and takes u to some amazing beaches and lookout points, noosa is really popular with the surf crowd who tr...

So even in spite of the terrible weather we headed down to hervey bay which is the jumping off point for fraser island, the rain was really starting to do our heads in now it was like being back in england, when we got to our hostel we were happy because our room had a tv and dvd player so at least we had something to watch while the rain kept us indoors. The plan was to stay there a night then go across to fraser island but we started getting the feeling the rai...

This was the start of over a week of pure rain! Wot an absolute rut! After we found our amazing hostel called the southern cross we headed out for a look around agnes water and 1770, its a really small coastal town with practically nothing to do, it is beautiful though and its also the spot where in 1770 captain cook landed and dicovered australia, which was our main reason for visiting this little place. the second day we were there we hired out some bikes and s...

Rockhampton!! Wot a place afer our adventures in mackay we decided a trip to the "BEEF CAPITAL" of australia as it likes to be known would be even more of a laugh, we managed to get a double room at a really freaky old hostel near the fitzroy river, it was really nice and had some dotty old woman running it who was really friendly, all was good until it came to night time and our cosy old hostel just came alive, the walls were shaking everytime someone ...

Right so we decided to stop at a few towns on the way down that were like the real australia and not really visited by backpackers so we could get a feel of wot real oz towns were like, we thought it would be a bit different and a bit of a laugh! Mackay our first stop on the way down from airlie did not dissapoint, it was a sunday and this place was a ghost town, we found our hostel and headed out for a look around, now at first it was a bit of a giggle looking a...