Surfers paradise was our next destination. It was a lot bigger than I was expecting- there were sky scrapers everywhere- the weather was really nice and there were lots of shops- which obvisoly kept Tess very happy. By the time we got to the hostel and checked in it was late afternoon- so we did what any female would and went shopping. i eventually brought a pair of little board shorts which I had been wanting since I had been in aus, they were on sale but stil...

Well we finally arrived in Brisbane- a bit delayed but we arrived safe and sound. We got to the hotel (bunk) which was not very nice- it was really really day and stuff everywhere. We saw a girl (shelby) who we travelled a bit with in New Zealand which was a bit crazy We went to use the internet and phone- and on the way we saw many people looking very strange and dressed up- which made us dislike brisbane as it wasn't nice walking around (however we later found ...

Okay, so I'm going to attempt to write up our time in Hervey Bay, and our Fraser Island Self-Drive Camping 4x4 tour!... bear with me cuz it was about 6 days or something ago now…So basically after Whitsundays boat trip, we headed for Hervey Bay where our self drive tour left from. We arrived at our hostel 'Palace' (hardly, but decent anyways), dropped our bags and checked in with the nice and very friendly guys in reception, bit full on but it was nice to h...

We know its been a while but we are trying to catch back up and upload photos- so just bare with us WhitSundays was our next trip- this was a 3 day 2 night trip on a sailing boat- which was the first time both me and Tess had been on a boat overnight so we weren't too sure how it was going to be. When we arrived at the harbour there were lots of nice new white yachts and then there was our boat the Witehaven-which was a small wooden looking saling boat- just ...

Well We left Magnetic Island as soon as we could as was raining AGAIN and there wasn't much to do there when it was raining, although I bet it would be lovely if it wasn't raining but we didn't get to see that side of it. Leaving so early meant that we had to sit in th ferry terminal at Townsville for 2 hours waiting for our greyhound bus. But this did mean that we could both try to finish our books that we were not enjoying (Tracey and Bill) we were both determi...