- After leaving the whitsundays tour and hanging around the lagoon waiting for my bus it was finally time to leave airlie beach, the bus was suppose to pick me up at 5.30pm but was 30 minutes late on top of that a few hours into the journey the driver got out to help a guy who's tyres were apparently about to go on fire, had to try and sleep through the journey since I wouldn't arrive at rainbow until 7.40 am so it's like a 14 hour journey but we had to go to the...

Just finished the whitsunday tour and I must admit it's one of the best experiences I've ever had out here. Monday morning, nursing a hangover after watching the derby game I got packed, left base hostel and had a backpack with two shirts, two pair of pants and swimming shorts with a towel, sun cream and a box of goon, all the essentials for this trip. We got on the boat, named broomstick, which was a lot smaller than I imagined and I couldn't believe it would...

Airlie beach is a nice place, really small though, similar to home that it just has one big large street that's full of pubs and a few restaurants. The main reasons people come here are to party and do the Whitsunday islands. At the weekends all the Australian football teams book out a couple of the hostels and drink all day and night. Not hard to spot either as they all wear the same vests, put theyre cap on backwards, shout a lot and are pretty chunky lads. I...

Since I only had 2 full days at the hostel I thought it was best I fully explore the island one of the days like on a bike or moped, I got told it's best just to get a day pass and do the routes reception recommended. Got dropped off at Arcadia and just next to there is a wild wallaby place where you can feed them, didn't realise you can't feed them bread until it was too late but I fed them a few slices and more and more kept turning up, you could put your ha...

woke up and got ready to leave civic hostel and I bumped into Jacob and Heather who I met in absolute, they had stopped the same place for the night and I didn't realise but they were off to magnetic island too so we got the ferry over together. It only took 15 minutes to get over, its only 8km from Townsville, on the way over you could see some of the beaches and the hills and it looked like a proper nice place. Checked in then went to get some food with Jaco...