Today we had a blissful lie in for once. We had the whole day to spend around Mt Isa before we had to get the overnight bus to Alice Springs at 4:30pm, so after a tasty breakfast of yoghurt and museli we headed out to explore. The first place we went to was outback at Isa a museum which gives a history of the town and its mining background and also has a section with loads of fossils and wax versions of the prehistoric animals of Australia. It was all quite in...

We were up at 6 am this morning as we had to get on the 7 am bus to Mount Isa. As the local buses weren't running at this time we had to get a taxi to the bus station which was expensive enough but even more so than usual due to the fact that we had to turn round when Dave realised he had forgot to hand our room key in at reception! The bus to Mount Isa took 12 hours which was one hell of a slog especially since we only stopped twice for about half an hour i...

Today we got up fairly early as we wanted to get the ferry over from Townsville to Magnetic Island/ however what we didn't realise was that the ferry only leaves every 2 hrs and as it was a 30 minute walk from the hostel to the ferry tminal, we missed the 10 o'clock ferry. we almost missed the 12 o'clock one as well because we were on the internet and left at quater to so had to run most of the way! We had been told by various people that magnetic Island is a...

We got the 9:20am bus this morning to Townsville, the last place we will be stopping on the East Coast before we make our way inland to Alice Springs and Ayres Rock. The journey took about 4 hours which was really short compared to the major slogs we have made between places so far! We got into Townsville at about 1:30pm where the bus dropped us of at the ferry terminal. Not wanting to walk the 25 minutes into town with our bags we hopped on a bus that thank...

This morning we had an action plan formulated to avoid any repercussions of yesterday morning. This meant that as soon as we heard the anchor clanking its way up at 6:30am we leapt out of bed, pulled on some clothes and ran upstairs looking slightly bleary eyed. We managed to get upstairs before the boat actually started moving which meant we didn't feel nearly as sick as we did yesterday, mission accomplished! We spent the morning on the boat making its way ...