Wow what beautiful weather to start our Fraser Island trip! Not a cloud in the sky as we piled into the 4WD and set off to the ferry to the island across the 'grey nurse' shark infested waters! The sea around the island is a specific breeding ground for the protected endangered sharks...definitely no swimming in the sea! Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world stretching 75 miles. We arrived on the island and started to head along the exceedingly b...

We are now in Hervey Bay! Lovely hostel here...and its free! Included in our Fraser Island tour price! Beautiful sunshine when we arrived this afternoon so we were straight out to the pool, lathered in suncream, trying to build our tans! On the way here we passed many more of the very common sugar cane crop fields. 'Sonic' our cute little bus driver telling us stories about how they cut the crop before machinery...the cane fields are full of rats, which attract t...

So today we travelled from Airlie Beach to Agnes Waters 1770. Very long day, 6.45am-5pm! We are only staying overnight here, but wish it was longer! Such a gorgeous little place. We walked along the beach at sunset and watched people surfing the first waves we've seen now that we're past the Great Barrier Reef! Thought we saw a snake swimming in the river..but no..just a little fish haha! Moving on again tomorrow to Hervey Bay. We played a quiz on the bus, named ...

So we arrived in Airlie Beach yesterday! We caught the ferry back to Townsville from Maggie I to pick up our bus and met he English boys who'd been on or last bus also! We saw the 'big' snake and mangoe in towns on the way down the coast and went through Bowen where lots of the film Australia was filmed so they created a 'Bowenwood' sign mimicking the Hollywood sign! We also stopped to get smoothies from the east coasts best smoothie shop! I treated myself to a d...

So yesterday we had to get up at 5.15am to catch our Oz experience bus down the coast to Townsville! On the way down we passed through the 2 wettest places in Oz (yes it was raining) and saw the golden gumboot and the giant golden gumboot in Tulley as the auzzies like 'big things' to show what there town is famous for! We also passed through the areas worst hit by cyclone yasi. The damage was worst in Camberwell where houses where missing their roof and most of t...