Arriving at Airlie beach at 6am after an overnight greyhound we were all a little tired. Going straight onto our Whitsunday cruise that afternoon we had the morning to kill before we could get aboard the Atlantic Clipper. This was soon passed getting some breakfast and a swim at the lagoon before stowing our pags at Peter Pan travel and heading off to the pier with our XXXX under the arm. The boat was large with plenty of space and we managed to secure a cabin w...

The town of 1770 sits at the end of a peninsular and is the site where James Cook first landed on the shores of Australia.The town is sort of merged with Agnes Water and it was there where our hostel was situated.The hostel (1770 Backpackers) had just completed a large extension and the four of us were the first guests to stay in the dorm.Very clean smelling until Drew left his trainers inside for 5 minutes.Still attempting to stay reasonably fit Hannah and I wen...

After the dorm nightmare of Bunk in Brisbane we were pleased to find only the four of us in the dorm at Dingo's hostel at Rainbow beach. Not much to do today apart from our briefing for the 4x4 Fraser Island trip in the afternoon. We explored Rainbow beach which as very long and nice. We also walked up to Carlos Sand blow, spectacular and a sign of what was to come on the island itself. Merv the steriotypical Australian, and owner of the 4x4 business took us ...

Finally the weather was something like we expected when we arrived in Brisbane and made the long walk from the bus terminal to our hostel Bunk. We only had one night in Brisbane and the bus to Rainbow beach was very early the next day to arrive in time for our Fraser Island briefing. We walked along the river front and the city was very built up, clean, and the communal areas were excellent. There was a man made beach lagoon where we got the taxi ferry to and w...

Well here we were in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, 365 days sunshine a year they told us. Not quite, the day we arrived it was absolutely pi**ing down and was the coldest day recorded in 9 years. We walked arround the town and the beach in the rain. The town itself was very different from the other resort towns. Really built up with tall apartment and hotel blocks, just like CSI Miami except it was raining and the police weren't ginger. That night we drow...