Thursday 24th January We were up and bright by 5am, watching the sun rising up which we took the opportunity to take photos. As we were based in the different campsite, we were unable to follow the itinerary. It mentioned that we were supposed to leave by 6am before the tides come in at 9am or so. But unfortunately the timing were wrong as we were still stuck and unable to drive onto the beach. We were meant to drive to Indian Head by 7.30am. Someone in our gr...

Wednesday 23rd January An early wake up call for us at 6am, ready for our departure at 7am, taking us to the 4x4 hire company to check everything such as camping equipments, food, checking on 4x4 so that way we didn't leave anything that was forgotten to take with us on the trip! Along with 8 of us in the group, there were 2 extras that we didn't meet in the group so that made the total of 10 people in the group now. There were 4 drivers that did volunteer to dr...

Tuesday 22nd January We didn't reach to Hervey Bay till 6.30am. As usual, we couldn't sleep well on the buses so you could say that we were pretty tired but due to the fresh air, we were wide awake. After checking in and dumped our bags, we had a look around in the town and the beach. we also did bit of food shopping before returning back to the hostel. we then met the hostel cat who was so similar to Hans, Adaire's cat from Chicago. Obviously we couldn't resist...

Monday 21st January As we didn't have to catch a coach till 6.10pm, we had a day to spend in Airlie Beach. We hung around in the hostel and did our laundry. Once that was done, repacked everything back into our luggages. We are quite getting sick of living out of suitcase! We are missing our clothes back at home! After having our dinner, we made our way to the coach terminal and waited for the coach to turn up which was on time! It was a 10 hours journey so we...

Sunday 20th January The ship left early like yesterday morning and again we were woken up by one of the staff as it was breakfast time! We were so tired due to sleepless night as it was so hot in our double room and lots of vibrations coming from the engine which was basically next to our room! As soon as we have finished our breakfast, we were told to get our snorkelling kit ready as we arrived at the beach called Hayman Island to do our second snorkelling ses...