Well I've come to the end of my travels up the east coast and i'm heading to darwin today before i start my travels back down the melbourne travellign though the centre and seeing all the sights to be seen on the way. Ayres rock i'm especially looking forward to seeing as i hear it's amazing not long now and i can make up my own mind about the rock in the middle of nowhere. I haven't got a best bit of the east coast i've really enjoying all that i've seen and e...

Well for the past 5 days I have been doing a learn to scuba dive course. The first two days were in the classroom learning the theory of diving, that was tough being back in a classroom after a long time but it was quite fun learning about scuba diving. We also went in the pool to learn the skills needed to scuba dive. Putting theory into practice, in the lovely heater pool and it was only 4m deep. Firstly we learnt to put together the scuba equipment, jacket, ta...

Well i got to mission beach after a short bus transfer from magnetic island. There is only two reasons peol ecome to mission beach that is to sky dive or go white water rafting. The first is while i decided to stop in mission beach. Istyed at scottyy's hostel which was really nice. The first day here the weather was crap and it rained all night, day and the next night. So i wasn't sure if i was going to be able to do my sky dive. But on the morning in question th...

Well that can i say about the whitsundays it was paradise. I went saililng for 3 days around the whitsundays, my boat was called ileola and it only had 12 people plus 2 crew members which was really nice better than a party boat with lots of peolpe on them. The first day we went to hook island and did some snorkeling we had to wear stinger suit which was just like wet suit but not as tight, just in case we got stung by jellies or anything else. It was really good...

After hervey bay we headed to kroombit a cattle ranch where we were going to spend the afternoon and night before going to airlie beach. Kroombit was off the beaten track the nearest town was 30km away so in the middle of nowhere. We got there for lunch and had steak reared locally which was rally nice. After we had the opportunity to go horse riding which I decided to do as I hadn't done it before and it was cheap to do it. We went riding for a bout 2 hours and ...