During our night in Magnetic Islands we headed to the bar for a drink and ended up meeting someone from Hervey Bay and played a few drinking games with the Americans next to us, so a quick drink turned into rather a messy night! In order to win a bar tab Sam entered an amateur lap dance competetion which probably turned 1 poor girl into a nun-but it was very funny to watch as you will see when you look at the photos! They also had flip-flop throwing comps and oth...

1770 wasn't too much fun-it was raining so hard for the night we were there that we couldn't really step outside without drowning so we were just boring and had an early night. The next day was much better, however-we visited the Kroombit cattle station for the night which is meant to be an authentic Aussie experience! We went across to a field and did some clay pidgeon shooting-out of 5 shots Sam managed to hit 3 and I had a go too-I think Sam was a bit gutted...

It was a rather strange 3 days while Sam was away...Hervey Bay is a rather small and unexceptional place, so after spending a day on the beach and walking to the pier it seemed that I had seen everything there was to see. The hostel was pretty sociable, but as everyone had to be up at 6.30 there wasn't much partying going on and every day the whole hostel cleared out which was a bit eerie...it was nice in the early evenings though as everyone gathered round for a...

Byron Bay was very nice-it would have been nicer to spend a bit more time there but as we've booked everywhere in advance (because it's so busy!) we can't really change the dates as often as we'd like. From Byron we went to Surfer's Paradise, which is quite a cool city-there are loads of sky scrapers which all seem to be residential blocks and the beach looked pretty good too. Unfortunately we were staying in a dump of a hostel! It had a nice bar area that showed...