We were up bright and early this morning and made the most of it by heading out to see a few of the sights before it got too hot! As it was Sunday, we thought there may be some markets on so we headed down to the riverside hoping to maybe pick up some bargains. The markets were there but there were no bargains to be had, it was full of expensive handmade, trinkets and jewellery. We wandered around for a while and then walked to City Hall. The first floor of the h...

Having decided we weren't going to fork out for a trip to Fraser Island we decided it was time to move on. If we're honest we're struggling to warm to Australia, we've really not been impressed with much of Queensland so we were hoping the cities would have a bit more to offer. Next stop Brisbane.It was a very difficult 5am start but we were in Brisbane for 12.20pm which meant we could grab some lunch and see a little of the city. Our hostel seemed OK, lots of pe...

So we managed to move on to the hostel at the second attempt as they "had no record of our booking" even though we saw the guy write it down last night.This time we were more in the centre so it made things easier although we soon found there wasn't much to see anyway. As it turns out most people who visit this town only do so to visit Fraser island, just off the coast, so we went to look at the options. Surprise, surprise it was too expensive, but to b...

Hervey bay was our next stop and again for the sixth night in a row we were going to camp, the difference here being we'd done an awful sleeper bus last night for 12 hours from Airlie beach.We had a difficult start as we were dropped off at 5.30am having had no sleep and were unable to check into the campsite until 7.30am at the earliest. We found the campsite pretty easily but were regretting not booking into a hostel for at least a half decent nights sleep. It ...

It rained a little during the night but thankfully our trusty tent held up. When we got up this morning, the weather still wasn't great. The main reason people come to Airlie Beach is to use it as means of travelling out to the Whitsunday Islands. We however were not visiting the islands, we looked into the trips available and they were all quite expensive also with the weather not being great we didn't want to pay out a large sum of money and have the trip spoil...