Well the car was hired and all that remained was the 876km drive which was achieved without incident over 11 hours 30 minutes and 3 breaks (except for not taking the right turning in Sydney and taking an hour to find it again). Singing along to the amazing Australian Radio stations kept the journey entertaining with our personnal favourites including the song by Nick who broke up with Jessica Simpson and the song by Paris Hilton. Once in Melbourne it didn't ...

It was time to see the most recognised sights of Sydney as the bus drove through the rain taking in the views of the Oprah house and harbour as we went. Once again we arrived at our destination without somewhere to stay but at least an idea of where we wanted to. This quickly changed when we were approached by a tout offering us a lift in the rain to a relatively cheap hostel in a good location. It turned out to be a really good hostel. The time in Sydney w...

It was time to relax at the chilled out Byron Bay, our time here included much sleeping to recover from the festivities of the final week as it was just Ben and myself again now. Our first full day in Byron Bay we decided to hire bikes and head up to the lighthouse to try and catch some whales passing. The bike ride took in the beautiful sites although the breaks didn't exactly work and as we rode up the steep hill you could only think of how fun the journey back...

There was only time for a quick stop in Brisbane as time was ticking down until our flight. Our first night there was our last night with Scouse Simon and being such an emotional time there was only one sensible solution - drinking games. After polishing off a box of goon we made our way down to the dancefloor at the oub below our accomodation where a 40ish year old woman tried her luck to get herself a younger fella for a while we thought Simon had been somehow ...

After Cairns it was down to the whitsundays where sailing was on the cards with our new travelling companions Chris, Tom, Simon and Ian. The sailing trip was amazing and the whitsundays are a beautiful place although i felt sea sick during most of the sailing (i really shouldn't be a diver). I got to do another free dive here but being brilliantly organised i had left my licence at the hostel so after several diving questions and proving i could put a rig t...