We arrived in Surfers Paradise looking forward to arriving at our hotel. As a treat to ourselves, we had booked into a hotel for the last few nights in Australia as it was only a couple of pounds more expensive a night than staying in a hostel. It turned out that for a ridiculously low price, we had managed to book a suite in a four star hotel! As a result we spent our remaining time in Australia in luxury. We lazed on the beach, swam in the pool, used the saun...

We got up and started our drive up the coast to Hervey Bay, where we would cross over to Fraser Island for three days. We spent the afternoon at the beach again as the weather was still lovely and continued the relaxing as we knew it was going to be a hectic three days ahead! At 5am the next day we woke up and set off for our briefing. For the next few days we were hiring a four wheel drive car, so we needed an hour safety briefing before the keys were hande...

After being stranded in Cairns for a week, we were glad to be able to get a flight south, over the floods, down to Brisbane. We wandered around the city for a few hours while we waited for our chauffeurs to arrive. Before we knew it we saw a white estate roll up and Luke, Ramon and Danielle got out and we were reunited with some friends for the first time in a couple of months. After a quick lunch we all piled in the car and started heading north towards Noo...

We arrived into a very soggy Cairns after spending another night in Melbourne. Unfortunately we had forgotten to note down the out of hours code to get into our hostel, so we managed to get ourselves locked out in the monsoon weather. Not the best start!The next morning we booked onto our reef tour and booked the bus down the coast. With only two weeks left in Australia we had time against us and had to move quickly.Our day on the reef was incredible. The visibil...