Happy new year to everyone!!! Hope you all had a great Christmas too. The East Coast was amazing but we were ready to settle for a few weeks in one place so were glad to arrive in Sydney where we could establish ourselves and chill out for Christmas. We got there to Sydney on the 21st Dec and after a trip across the harbor bridge and a few view points we dumped our stuff then headed to Chinatown to take in some of the city but mainly cause I was hungry! and yes K...

After Surfers our next stop was Bryon Bay. We didn't actually do much in Bryon. We got there on a Sunday and most things were closed or booked up so we did a lot of wondering around, seeing some random things like barefoot dancers in the street. On the Monday we did a day trip to Nimbin, which is a little hippie town and its like stepping back into the 70s. We met a local called Paul who wears nail polish and collects trees!! We tried some of the local cookies an...

After the east coast highlights of Fraser and Whitsundays we were quite ready to chill down the rest of Queensland. We made our way to Noosa stopping off at a place called Rainbow beach to learn how to play the didgeridoo (I was rubbish) and throw a boomerang (not so bad at this). We also learnt some things about the aboriginals (quite sad the way the English came in and took over!). Once at Noosa, (which is a bit of a posh beach town, often compared with Florida...

Airlie Beach is a really cool place that seems to be moulded for backpackers. We loved it. We did not get to spend to long there though as like most backpackers we were just using it as a gateway to the Whitsundays. The morning of the 3 day trip we went shopping for a sack of wine (4 ltrs, the love their boxed wine here). Then headed to the barge to find our boat. We decided to go for the Powerplay which is a high speed boat (no sails, we had enough of saili...

After the partying at Airlie Beach I was not too excited about the 9 hour journey to somewhere I had never even heard of (Kroombit, a beef farm in the middle of no-where) but was well worth the journey. After stopping off at random places (all part of the oz experience package, including barefoot bowling with some pensioners on this leg) we finally pulled up, I am trying to think about how to describe this, as it was so cool, cowboys and kangaroos everywhere, the...