The toughest 3 1/2 weeks of our travels were in Melbourne and although we were here for so long we didnt really see too much or do too much for 2 reasons. The first reason was that we knew mom and dad would be meeting us here and we would be ssing things with them and second because we needed to stop spending or earn money. It was a shame as this was a lovely city and infact one of our favourites. We spent most of the time in the hostel and using the internet t...

We arrived in Sydney safely and made it to the YHA central hostel. New building and very impressive especially when you need a key card to enter the bathrooms!! Due to the change of plan and short amount of time between here and Brisbane, we weren't able to get a dorm room so had a twin room for 2 nights. The price was ridiculous as the "twin" room was actually a bunkbed. Oh well, it was all they had available. Day 1: we walked to Darling Harbour and...

ok so we caught the moring bus to Caboolture (well as near as we could get) to begin work. Our lovely bus driver told us he could get us to the service stop here which was great. We phoned our work contact who said he would be able to collect us from here which was even better!! So we waited for a short while until we saw a white van, encrusted with dirt pulling up. The man hanging out of the window with a cigarette in hs mouth could only be described as Rab C Ne...

Ok so we are backtracking slightly! OOPs! Our apologies, we have been sooo busy thats we havn't stopped to complete our blog. So the last port of call was Fraser Island just off Hervey Bay, where we spent Christmas. From here we headed to a very small place called Rainbow beach for a few days of recouperation. We didnt do too much here. There was a lovely beach, mainly popular with surfers and a small town with tourist shops. We spent most of the time at the h...

Hervey Bay and Fraser Island 23rd-27th December Next stop, Hervey Bay. Much bigger than we expected! We pulled in to a huge retail park where Fraser Roving backpackers were waiting with their pink van to collect us. We checked in and got settled in our hostel which was really nice. That evening we headed for our Fraser Island briefing at 6:30pm. Here we found out all our info for the 3 day/2 night trip and our groups. We were with 3 Swedish guys, a Swiss Guy, ...