We arrived at Scotty's in mission beach and it quickly became clear it was going to be a good night, there was a wicked group of people staying there and the place was really cool. It was set out like beach huts with a massive pool in the middle complete with a gladiator style log across it and noodles so you could battle until the end! So after a day of chilling by the pool, water polo and gladiator battles (Rich was quick to knock some little kid straight off...

We finally arrived in OZ and considering it was nearing December it was hotter than ever! We checked in to our hostel and headed down to the lagoon on the esplanade, the lagoon was huge with big outdoor BBQ's you could use all day to prepare your 'shrimps on the Barbie!' We soon discovered that OZ was going to quickly destroy our bank balance compared to the three months in Asia where you could live on pennies! So once we'd blown our budget on our greyhound ticke...