Continuing down the east coast we plan our trip to Fraser Island via Hervey Bay. Instead of driving on Fraser ourselves, we decide to go on a fully guided and fully inclusive 3 day/2 night tour. This costs us about £300 in total but we save £150 from our budget because we don't need to spend anything! Hervey Bay has the pleasure of our company for 1 night and the hostel served up a delicious all you can eat Mexican buffet for under $10 of which we took...

We lived through our worst nightmare when leaving Cape Tribulation as the rains came though the night and didn't let up when we packed our tent away! Not a nice thing to do and now we have a wet tent scruffily packed in the boot of our car! What's more annoying is when the rain stops just after we finish while we're sitting having breakfast! We never planned our days drive today apart from knowing we wanted to just skim down the coast we'd already seen and head ...

Heading north from townsville we stopped at a swimming hole in Crystal Creek called paradise swimming hole. This was a great little spot for a dip and we fell like we have to take advantage of all these spots because swimming in the sea is forbidden due to the potentially fatal jellyfish around this time of year. We had lunch at a place called Frosty Mangos en route to Mission Beach and this was one of the best meals we'd tasted for a long while. I had the delic...

We left Darwin loaded on pancakes ready for the road trip once again and set off towards Litchfield National Park. Before we came to Australia, we knew that a didgeridoo was high on the agenda of souvenirs to purchase but none had fallen in the right price range that we liked. That was until shortly after leaving Darwin we called in at a town called Humpty Doo (Where do they get their town names from?!!) to visit a famed local art shop where didge's were a-plen...