So I made it to Cairns in one piece! The rumour was it is just like Queenstown in New Zealand, Party Central! The Party place to be was Gilligans Backpackers so of course thats where I was staying. I made my where there and left my bags in the storage room as once again you couldnt check in until 2pm. Adam was staying for 1 night in a different hostel with Tom and Mark was still in bed so I exploring by myself. Now Cairns is called a city but its more like a town...

9am Me and Mark went to catch the bus to Townsville. Adam and Shona werent coming. It was a hot day but thankfully it was nice and cool on the bus. We arrived in Townsville at lunch time and went straight to the ferry terminal. The ferry took 20 minutes to cross over to Magnetic Island. We then had to catch a local bus to the Base hostel. The rooms there were like beach challets. It was very hot. There was a nice bar / restaurant area that overlooked the sea and ...

I arrived in Airlie Beach at 7am. Mark was with me. We went to the Base hostel to drop our bags off as we couldnt check in until 2pm. Mark was hungry so we went to McDonalds for breakfast. There he had his first hashbrown, he had never heard of them before. After that it was still only 8am and none of the shops were open so we walked along the beach front along the board walk until we came to the Marina. This looked like the place we would catch our boats from th...

After watching a film on the bus we arrived in 1770 about tea time. We checked into our room and thennwent to find the bottle shop and pub. There was me, Mark, Adam, Tom and Steve. We bought a bottle of peach vodka between us, some sprite and a bucket of shots just before the shop shut. We then went to the pub and hid the alcohol in a bush outside. We only had one drink there as it was quite expensive. We went back to the bush to get our alcohol and im pleased to...

Adam not having made any plans of his own yet also booked onto the same Fraser Island trip as me. We checked out of Noosa and left on the 9:30am bus. We were unlucky to get a bit of a grumpy driver. Sometimes power goes to peoples heads and it had gone to his. We arrived in Rainbow beach at lunch time. The hostel was just across the road from the bus stop. Our room had a balcony and its own bathroom. We were sharing with an irish couple and two Sweedish girls. W...