Cairns was the final destination of the Wallace, Love trip from Sydney along the east coast of Australia. We had four nights and four days which included two day trips. One with Passions of paradise to sail and Snorkel the great barrier reef and the other to Cape Tribulation and Port Douglas for Rain Forest walks and Corcodile spotting. Our base for the 4 nights was the slightly dirty and very out of town Cairns Beech house. First up was the reef. We boarded the...

From Airlie Beach the greyhound did not take long to arrive at Townsville where we would board the ferry to the stunning Magnetic Island. Magnetic Island, named due to the pulling effect it had on Captain Cooks ship, is mostly national park with large granite boulders and cliffs rising out of the blue ocean. After the smooth ferry we arrived at Nelly Bay. Our accommodation of choice was Magnetic Island YHA, which had an onsite Koala Sanctuary. This was round ...

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 ...