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 ...

Today we went to Fraser Island, known to the aborigines as 'Gari' (meaning paradise) we got to the island via a ferry, we were in a 4x4 so once we docked we headed straight into the middle of the island, on the way we were driving through thick forest, it was a bumpy ride as the entire island is made of sand, whilst driving we saw our first wild Dingo (an Australian wild dog) we first went to Lake McKenzie, this was a lake made totally from rainwater, it was clea...

We left Airlie Beach at 7pm Tuesday night to catch the bus to Hervey Bay. A 13 hour journey which wasn't too bad, we watched a couple of films then fell asleep for a few hours before arriving in Hervey Bay. We were hoping this bus ride wouldn't be like the last -breaking down for 3.5 hours in the mid day heat,however this time our driver decided to get pulled over by the police for speeding. Rather funny! We got to our hostel at about 8 this morning, it's a reall...