Miraculously Joel was still alive in the morning but thankfully it was my turn to drive, as I'm sure Joel would have been over the limit for about a week. We headed off down the beach & stopped off at Eli Creek. This was a freshwater stream that flowed out of the rainforest & into the sea. It was only waist deep so you could walk from the top of it, all the way back down to the beach. With the sun beaming down, it was extremely refreshing to float dow...

We started early that morning so we could make use of the daylight on Fraser Island. We were all assigned to a 4x4 making sure that drivers were split evenly throughout the cars. Joel & I were both driving & were put in a group with Phil (a fellow Brit) & Ryan, Zach, Nicole, Kirsten & Hannah ( 5 Americans over in Oz studying). Thankfully they were much more tolerable than the previous Yank we had met. In fact, they probably made our weekend!! ...

Jumping on the bus with the girls, we made our way to Rainbow Beach to prepare for our Fraser Island adventure. We arrived early afternoon & decided to make use of the remaining sunshine available to us. So we headed for the beach & chillaxed the afternoon away. The evening's entertainment at the hostel was karaoke night. So Joel & I watched people make idiots of themselves, whilst making the most of the cheap beer prices. The following day we ha...

Waking feeling remarkably good for only 2 hours worth of sleep, we wolfed down breakfast & were soon back on the road to Rockhampton in order to catch our connecting bus to the town of 1770 in Agnes Waters. The town was exceptionally small & didn't have much to do, so we chilled at the hostel & made use of their BBQ & bar for that evening. Still feeling tired from the cattle rance, we called it a night fairly early only to be awoken by some loud...

YEEHAH!! Today Joel & I were impersonating John Wayne & Clint Eastwood (not Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhall) at the Kroombit Cattle Station. We were picked up around 8:30am by our driver, 'Thunder' & we met our new group. Upon turning on to the dirt road leading to Kroombit's entrance, we put some Johnny Cash on the bus speakers to get into the spirit of things. Arriving just around midday, we tucked into a hearty steak BBQ lunch & were giv...