My final destination - Cairns. And what a great final stop it has been. Cairns is a large city with thousands of tourists visiting here every year. The town is lively with lots a bars, nightclubs, restaurants, hotels, hostels and of course travel agents who wont let you walk down the street without hassling you to book your trips through them. My first trip that I went on was the famous Uncle Brian's Rainforest Tour. There are many trips into the rainforest from...

So I stayed in Mission beach for two nights and one full day. There is very little to do in Mission beach due to the cyclone which unfortunately hit the town two and a half years ago. Backpackers now only go there for two reasons now; either to do a sky dive or to do the white water rafting trip. I chose the latter as I can barely bring myself to go on a roller-coaster, and so having the guts to jump out of a plane seemed somewhat unlikely. The white water rafti...

Townsville is a Town which many backpackers choose to skip, and for good reason; there is almost nothing to do there. I went for two nights and only one full day. Firstly as I needed a few nights to recover after the party scene in Airlie Beach, and secondly I had heard that there was a really lovely walk that you could do called the Castle Hill Cliff walk. The walk was great, I chose the goat track which is 1,315 steps to the top. From the top you get great vi...

The Whitsundays is on everyone's bucket list, or if it's not then it definitely should be. Hundreds of different boats offering a range of one to three day trips, in varying group sizes and varying standards of luxury. My boat was called Avatar and was with a company called Ozsail.com and was a two day, two night trip. There was 23 guests and 4 crew (a skipper, two deck hands and a chef). The boat was beautiful; an ex racing boat with plenty of room on deck for s...

1770 has this imaginative name due to the fact the Captain Cook first landed his Ship here in 1770, when he discovered Australia. Not to be confused with Captain Hook, who is a fictional character who chases after Peter Pan, the boy that never grows up. Although a worrying amount of people that I have met out here have got those two confused. Many backpackers don't stop at 1770 as there simply isn't much there. For this reason I only booked two nights in a hoste...