Fraser Island and Hervey Bay Caught an early ferry from Kingfisher Terminal in Hervey Bay to Fraser Island with lots of other keen tourists. Although it was raining, we were both very excited and were treated with a beautiful rainbow when we got to port. It was straight onto a massive 4x4 vehicle with our tour guide Peter and about 15 other people. Peter turned out to be a bit of a nutty eccentric guy, with masses of stories about life on Fraser... Odd at firs...

Glasshouse Mountains The Glasshouse Mountains are an inland range just north of Brisbane that we did a quick 1day-1night visit to on the way to Hervey Bay. It's really beautiful with about 15 'mountains' making up the range. There's an interesting aboriginal story about how the mountains came to look the way they do and how they ended up with names like 'Crookneck' and 'Beerwah'. We walked/climbed up one of the mountains, which was pretty hard work, but worth ...

Noosa Noosa is a very exclusive beach town, where Ben and Hailey are getting married in January. We were there for 4 nights of luxury and relaxation. Stayed in a brilliant double apartment and made very good use of the heated pool, jacuzi, Dan Murphy's and BBQ (check out the photo of N 'sticking another shrimp on the barbie' - tick that off the list!) Noosa Heads is part of a lovely National Park, so we spent a couple of days walking through the forest and...