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...

We hit airlie beach which is the jump off point for the whitsundays on the morning of erins birthday, after we got into our hostel we had a bit of a walkaround and booked a table for that evening at a mexican restaurant for her birthday. airlie was quite nice but really small with just one road with all the bars and hostels and stuff on and a big lagoon style swimming pool next to the beach which is open to everyone because u cant swim in the sea here! The mexica...

We left cairns and headed off down the coast towards magnetic island, but decided to hop off the greyhound before there and spend the night at a little place called mission beach, it was a quiet little town with a huge beautiful beach with a few islands also lying just offshore like the famous dunk island, with not much really to do here we got back on our bus the next morning and went straight down to magnetic island where we would be staying the next 3 days. &q...