So far we have decided to not have a set timetable and have only really aimed to be in Melbourne for our departure. So the length of time we have spent in each place has been a reflection on how much we have enjoyed it or how practical it was. We decided to have an itinerary for the route down to Brisbane to spice things up a bit, but all that soon got thrown straight out the window.

Now please forgive me as it is 4 o'clock in the morning and having just been rudely awakened by an army of bed bugs crawling all over us, my literacy skills might not be up to scratch! Grillz is in the car trying to sleep and hopefully I can fill you in with our tales from the last week or so. Firstly, we have to rewind back to Townsville.

This city played a more practical part for us, as we had to purchase a new camera and get the laptop back up and working, all for the benefit of you! We spent a few nights here and managed to find time to squeeze in a really cool aquarium into our busy schedule! It housed the world's largest coral reef and was based around the marine life that you would find here on the Great Barrier Reef. It was quite informative and pretty cheap after we worked the charm to get it as students, although we have to say it was weird seeing the fish we recently dived with behind glass…minus the sharks.

We next planned to head down to Airlie Beach, which is the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands, a group of holiday islands off the coast with great beaches and reef cruises. However, nature had other ideas, sending a category 5 cyclone towards us and pretty much ruined all our plans. The cyclone was hanging off the coast and waiting to come inland so people were boarding up windows and packing to move out. Even though the cyclone was off the coast, the weather it brought with it was awful. We have never driven in such torrential rain in our lives and with very little visibility, it was pretty scary, but had we stuck around it could have got even worse.

We decided to head further down south to try to get away, but with winds blowing the cyclone south at about 140 Mph it was catching up pretty quick! We stopped for the night in Rockhampton, which is Australia's beef capital so you can imagine the atmosphere. We stopped at a hostel, which could probably house around 150, but only had 5 people in it. We cooked a nice meal of Kangaroo, which is swiftly becoming a huge part of our non-existent diet, and watched a film with a nice Canadian couple before settling in for the night.

The next day our new setting was Bundaberg and with the rain and wind not holding out we decided to head off early and take our time. Some of you might know a brand called Bundaberg, which is a very iconic rum drink that is huge in Australia but as they only export 1% worldwide not many people have heard of it. Following on from that fact, you can probably guess that we did a tour of the distillery where we tried some of their produce, which was one thing that couldn't be effected by the rain! In Bundaberg, there are huge amounts of sugar cane fields, which attract lots of people on working visas for farm work. The place we stayed was like a youth hostel with TV rooms, pool tables and had our new favourite sport - ping pong (Not the Thai version)!

"Fraser Island, seen from the coast is a beautiful enigma that appears too lush and green to be the world's biggest sand island. The fringe of pounding surf contains an interior of tropical rainforests, gorges and freshwater lakes." That was an extract from a brochure of what we missed out on courtesy of our good friend Cyclone Hamish. We were really disappointed to miss this place but with it being ripped up it really wasn't wise to go. We also had to miss out on Noosa and Hervey Bay and it was getting kind of tiresome. Our next decision was to leave Bundaberg and head for Brisbane although that was kind of made for us. With the comfort of city life ahead, we thought positive and decided not to ever make a schedule again!

Adam & Adam