After a 5 hour bus journey we arrived at Hervey Bay, got picked up from the bus station and taken to the hostel.The briefing for the Fraser Island trip the next day had already taken place so we joined up with some other late comers and kind of sorted ourselves out.Our group consisted of 2 Canadian girls Katie and Cindy, Guy from England, Lise from Norway and Adrian from Swizerland. We went to the supermarket and spent more than enough on food for the 3 days (tw...

Ok so we got the bus to Noosa at about lunch time, only 2 1/2 hours from Brisbane. Once we got there we were picked up by Gagaju, the company who we're doing the bush walk and camp with. A slightly strange man picked us up and took us to the supermarket to buy some food and drink, on the bus we met Emma and Jason a really nice couple from Portsmouth. Once we were all stocked up we went off to the camp, first impressions were not good! It was like going back i...

Got the bus in the evening to Surfers paradise and got picked up by Andy (who Tom knows from back home).He's been so kind as let us stay for a few days and we've been really looking forward to it!He took us back to where they live in Carrara and it is the loveliest house I've ever been in!We had a drink with Andy and his mum and dad (Jill and Graham) who live there too, and then had the best nights sleep I've had for ages! Next morning we met Andy's wife Rachel ...

So we arrived very early in the morning about 6.30am and went straight to the backpacker village, couldn't check in straight away so we went for a walk to find the beach, very quiet only a few surfers around which was cool!Then went back to wait for our room to be ready.I fell asleep on a bench which was not my best look but Tom loved the photo opportunities!!After we got to check in and get some sleep we decided to have the 'all you can eat' bbq at the hostel wh...

We made it to Melbourne by the evening and got the car back with no problems.We checked into our dorm at Urban Central, a 4 bed.We didn't see our room mates but it wasn't hard to work out that it was 2 lads! They turned out to be very friendly Irish guys who didn't do much in Melbourne except get drunk and go to the casino!For or first whole day we walked into the city centre for a look around.We stopped at Federation Square where Tom got roped into helping a str...