From airlie beach we took the overnight bus to Hervey bay arriving at 5.30 in the morning at our hostel which was part of our package and we were allowed to check in there and then luckily! We didn't really do anything that day, Hervey bay is quite small, we just had a look around and watched dvd's. The next day we started our fraser island expedition which turned out to be one of the real highlights of our trip so far. Getting up at 6.30, being given a 1hr 30 ...

We eventually left mission beach after having difficulties arranging our whitsundays / fraser island package in the back of Laura & Lucy's campervan. The plan was to stop off at Wallaman falls before arriving at townsville around sun set. wallaman falls is about half way between but about 42k inland and is the largest waterfall in aus. We managed to find it ok then went to the look out point before taking the path to near the bottom of the falls. From there w...

We hitched a ride with Laura & Lucy from Cairns, which is technically illegal having 5 people in a 2 person van but it was good fun and everybody does it out here. We arrived A-okay and stayed at a place called Scotty's. The only reason we came here was to skydive as it is rated as the best place in aus to do it. Apart from sit around a pool all we did here was skydive and watch movies. Skydiving - my instructor was an ex-russian special forces who had don...