Rich and I joined the rest of the group in Mission Beach a day later. We stayed at a hostel called Absolute Backpackers, it was so nice there, had a pool with a jacuzzi which we took full advantage of....some more than others but i'll say no more ;) The 'resort' as they like to call it had been badly damaged by the cyclone and the owners were still in the process of rebuilding and repainting. They showed us photo's from before and after the cyclone to show us ho...

Magnetic Island.....our stop for the Halloween full moon party. We travelled up to Townsville, which despite it's name is actually quite a big city, as we hadn't booked accomodation we tagged along with Alex, Alex and Tash to their hostel. The guys moved on the next day to Magnetic Island but me and Rich had an extra night booked so spent the day in the rooftop pool then in the afternoon walked up a 'hill' called Castle Hill. It was not a hill.....it was a mount...

I'ts been about 3 months since I last updated so I'll start where I left off. Next stop on our trip was Airlie beach for the Whitsundays. So, we arrived in Airlie after a 13hr bus journey from Agnes water. There had been a road accident so the bus had to take a detour through country roads that were so bumpy, they nearly threw Rich of his seat.....much to my ammusement! We had a few days to waste before our boat trip as there had been stormy weather, which look...

So, I said i wouldn't write another post until I'd left Sydney and had something interesting to talk about. I had a great last few weeks in Sydney, Nikki had returned from NZ and Jordan was back for his birthday and the sun was shinning. Off we went to Coogee for some beach time, it was the warmest day we'd had so far in Sydney at 27 degrees so we got some beers and chilled out for the day. The next day we went on a coastal walk from Spit Bridge to Manly, it ...