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...