This has to be one of the most amazing trips we have done!!! We were in a tag along group. This was 4 jeeps with 8 people in each group. We had a briefing before we went that scared the living hell out of everyone. Basically we were all going to get eaten by dingos, bitten by snakes and attacked by jumping spiders. Great! Met our group of 8 that included 2 scots, 2 nurses and 2 18 year olds that ash referred to as the kids. Everyone in the group was hilarious an...

Stopped over for a rest in Agnes Water/ 1770 before we move onto Fraser Island. Stayed in a really cool hostel. Didn't have it's own water supply so all the water was fresh rain water. 1770 is the town where captain cook first landed. Spent both our days here surfing at the beach. It's the place where you can get the cheapest surf lessons $17 for 3 hours. We hired our own boards instead. It was so much harder than last time, every time we tried to get back out ...

Next stop on the east coast was Airlie beach. We had a free nights accommodation here with our Whitsundays trip. Spent some time exploring the beach and lagoon. Couldn't swim in the sea due to the stingers again so we just swam in the lagoon. Headed off early on our Whitsundays trip. Had to take our shoes off before we got on the boat then that was the last we saw of them. The boat was a sailing boat that had won the sailing race from Hobart to Sydney. Whitsun...

A 3 hour flight from Sydney to Cairns, reminded me how huge Australia is!! It was Lianas birthday so we headed out for lunch on the esplanade. The heat was so different than in Sydney, really humid. Also noticed there is lot of aboriginis sat on the streets looking pretty out of it. Ash and I headed to the lagoon afterwards to cool down. No beaches in the town but you can't swim in the sea at this time of year anyway due to stingers aka jelly fish. The pool on th...

First experience of a night bus in Australia. Surprisingly not as comfy as Asia as you just get a chair and not a bed. Found our hostel Mount Batten pretty easily. Right next to china town but also very close to Darling Harbour. Our first day we wandered into the city, I wanted to go to Martins Place where the siege had happened last week. There were thousands of flowers outside the Lindt cafe, really sad sight! Wandered around the many shopping centres and visi...