So we arrived at Magnums backpackers for the night for a 2 night 3day sailing trip around the Whitsundays island. Our boat was called Pegasus and skippered by Pete a crazy kiwi bloke with Johnno another kiwi being the dive instructor and some other staff doing the cooking and what not. On the way out we sailed for about 2 hours, the winds were pretty strong and I think we got about 8 nots (however you spell it) or so, the boat was rocking from side to side and mo...

After all the beaches and small hostels we'd been to it was a bit weird getting to a city, but quite nice - more things to go and see and do and of course the cricket and barmy barmy army!!Our tickets were for the third day of the test, Saturday, id already sold one of my tickets to Pete who we had met in Cairns but couldn’t shift the other one so ended up making a loss by selling it on to a tout for $5 = about 2 quid! Seats were pretty good and had som...

After a 13 hour greyhound bus ride we got to Hervey Bay for a night before being put into a group of 10 for our 4x4 self drive safari over to Fraser island - the biggest sand dune island in the world. On our team was a couple from the Netherlands, three Swedish girls (who were actually some of the ones who came over to our boat on the whitsundays toga night) a French dude and two English blokes who grey up in Germany.We set off for the ferry and then once over th...

First few days we stayed in Cairns at an ok hostel, what I would expect for 16 dollars really. The place itself hasn't got all that much nightlife or even a beach! but has a lagoon thing they've built. We got free meals with our hostel at a bar in town, town being 15mins from the hostel. As you can imagine the portions were tiny! Altho for 5 dollars you could upgrade to a proper meal - this is what a lot of hostels/bars do really.From here we booked about 3days t...