We went to Hervey Bay to meet up with Cat again who'd gone slightly ahead of us. Hervey Bay is a very quiet town with a nice beach, but almost as quiet as Rockhampton. The main attraction of Hervey Bay is that it is the gateway to Fraser Island. So we booked our trip to Fraser Island and had to attend a workshop about about the island which is basically a massive sand dune. We hired some massive 4 by 4 vehicles and the workshop was to show us how to drive the...

We experienced our first trip on a Greyhound bus heading to Airlie Beach down the East Coast from Cairns. It wasn't the best of trips! It started off well with a good driver and nice bus but we managed to get stuck behind an accident so we were delayed for a while. The driver then said he wasn't going to head all the way down to Airlie Beach so the few of us who were going there would have to get a later bus from Townsville. So he dropped us in Towsville whic...

Ignore the picture for this blog, it has nothing to do with Rockhampton!! We stopped off in Rockhampton as Steve's Godfather lived there. It was just a 2 night stopover following another trip on the Greyhound bus, which was more successful this time!! Rockhampton didn't have a lot to offer to be honest! It was a really sleepy town, so sleepy even the shops were shut on a Saturday! Even all the supermarkets were shut before 4 in the afternoon. They are famou...

We arrived in Cairns following our trip to Ayers Rock and was expecting the weather to still be gorgeous out there but it was quite overcast. It did brighten up for some of the time we were there but we also saw some rain too! The first night Beth and I went to get our free meal provided by the hostel but ended up just having it as a starter and then trailing the streets of Cairns for Domino's pizza as we were still hungry! It was a really tiny meal! Steve ar...