The last few days in Australia have been really good! Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast was lovely despite the rain. We got there in the evening from Rainbow Beach so just had a look around and cooked tea and chilled out in the hostel. On our second day there we had a surf lesson in the morning. It was so much fun! Mel was teachers pet and stood up quite a few times where as I needed a bit of extra attention but managed to stand up on my last two waves! A succes...

We got to the bus stop at 7:45 Wednesday morning to be picked up for our 2 day/1 night excursion to Fraser Island! Which is the worlds largest sand island and a national heritage site due to the remarkable complex ecosystem developed solely on sand. However, due to the busses fan belt coming off we weren't picked up until 9:15, yet they failed to contact us and let us know what was happening. Nevertheless, the bad beginning of the trip didn't ruin the rest. We ho...

After a 15 hour overnight bus ride down from Airlie Beach we arrived into Rainbow Beach at 9:40am. We checked into our hostel which was conveniently across the road from the Greyhound bus stop! We then went for a little walk around the town which is rather small. We then spent a large amount of time in the travel agents using there free Internet to sort out our photos and book some hostels and stuff like that. At 3:30pm our hostel did a free bush walk up to the C...

After an 11 hour bus journey, we eventually arrived at Airlie Beach and boy it was hot! We checked into the hostel and began to wonder around. Airlie has a lovely little beach but the water is full of stingers, so they have created a really nice lagoon right next to the beach! We then went to the travel agent to check in for our boat trip tomorrow. They informed us that the boat we were originally going on had a malfunction so we had been upgraded for free to th...

2 Day 1 Night Dive Trip! We met at the dive shop early Saturday morning and got transferred to the marina to get on the boat "Sea Quest". It was an hour and a half boat trip to the reef, which was pretty choppy! Then we were able to begin our dives. We first went to Norman Reef. We decided to do our first two dives with a guide, as we weren't too sure on navigating our way back to the boat. On our very first dive we were lucky enough to see a White Tip Reef ...