Checking in from our favourite eatery on this trip- McDonalds! We left Byron Bay yesterday at 9pm. Really liked it there, laid back and it had a lovely beach. We had a 13 hour coach ride to Sydney (longer than any flight we have had) but it wasn't too bad as we slept for most of the time. When we got to Sydney at 10am we dropped our backpacks off at the hotel and looked round Chinatown, which our hotel is right in the middle of. We went to a huge undercover marke...

We arrived to Byron Bay today just after lunch, we have now left Queensland and are now in New South Wales, once we had checked in and done our shopping we went for a guided walk through a rainforest to Cape Byron, at the top of it is a lighthouse that was made in 1901. The view from up there was amazing, you could look over Byron Bay on one side and the Tasman sea on the other, we also walked to the most easterley point in Australia, from there you just overlook...

We have had three days in Surfers Paradise now, and another three to go, really nice place, lovely beach and good waves! Been in the Jacuzzi in the hotel in the afternoons and the beach during the day, probably the best place for entertainment so far, so many bars, clubs, pubs and restaurants, off to the Hard Rock Cafe tomorrow night, apparently Surfers Paradise is the Miami of Australia so can't be bad. Next stop Byron Bay...

It's our last night in Brisbane we've had 3 nights here. We are staying at Brisbane City YHA. Again we have our own room with an ensuite. On the roof is seating where we eat dinner and a pool that overlooks the city. Its lovely at night time. Yesterday we wanted to see the city so we got on the hop-on hop-off bus. We went up to Mount Cout-Tha, a look out point over the whole city then caught the bus to Chinatown. It was quite cool there but not as good as the Chi...

Today we went to the shark museum / exhibition. It's owned by a guy called Vic Hislop, he is quite famous in this part of Australia, up until 2001 he held the guiness world record for catching the biggest great white shark. We went to his expo and had a look around, he had a large freezer with the biggest Great White Shark he had ever caught preserved inside. It's 22 foot long. There were also other sharks inside, hammerheads and tiger sharks. Literally the 22ft ...