This morning we had all arranged to meet at 07:00 as Emma was leaving for 2 days to go to Fraser Island on Cooldingo tours (in a 4WD bus) and I wanted to say goodbye as I wasn't sure if I would still be here when she got back. This was the first time in 5 months that Emma and Jane would have split up and not done something together. Jane was going to leave and meet up with Emma in Airlie Beach but decided to stay at Hervey Bay with me and head there when Em...

No alarm this morning, woo hoo!!!I was just planning my day and where I would go and get this big steak from, which was now long overdue especially after my great dinner last night, when I got a text message from Emma and Jane (who I had spent 4 weeks in China with). The message said that they would arrive in Hervey Bay today and be there for a couple of days only before heading up to Airlie Beach and would I be around to meet up with them finally?So it was a qu...

This morning I was awoken by Daniel at around 08:00 knocking on the side of my van as he was heading home and wanted to give me his mobile number and said that if I make it down to Melbourne then I should call him and come and stay for a couple of nights. I said that I should be down there around the 20th September and that I would give him a call when I get a bit nearer to see what he is up to.As I was now awake, I decided to go and get a shower and head off ea...

It wasn't too much of a late night last night as I had booked a full day kayaking around the Whitsunday Islands today. www.saltydog.com.auI get picked up at the hostel at around 08:30 and driven to the port where the kayaking starts and then we are told to watch an induction video while they get the equipment ready. Everyone gets a double kayak and I ask if I can have a single one. At this point I get told that there is no full day trip as there were not e...

Yet another early start today as I wanted to visit the Billabong Sanctuary in time for feeding the koala's at 8am. So I headed out in the van and go to the sanctuary just before 8 to see that it was closed and didn’t open until 08:30 and that the flier that I had must have been out of date or they had changed their opening times as it was off season. So I waited for it to open and was the first person in there just like a big kid (with an SLR!!!).www....