According to our trusty Lonely Planet travel book Fraser Island is "the largest sand island in the world (measuring 120km by 15km) and the only place where rainforest grows on sand", a trip here would be our next adventure. Three days and two nights (camping) on Fraser Island, driving ourself around in 4x4's (following a lead driver and guide, 'Crumpy') taking in the sights and scenery on offer. After an early start and some free pancakes for breakfast we ha...

After leaving such a small town in the form of 1770 we headed to Rainbow beach hoping to find something a bit bigger, we did not. Rainbow beach is a mix between 1770 and Airlie Beach, like 1770 a tiny town and like Airlie Beach in the sense that is a launching pad for trips to Fraser Island. Our trip to Fraser Island was the following day and we had just arrived in Rainbow Beach the morning before. The greyhound dropped us off just outside our hostel so afte...

We left Airlie Beach at 12:00am and boarded a Greyhound which dropped us off in 1770 at 10:00am the following day. We had a courtesy shuttle bus ready and waiting for us when we arrived which took us to our new home (hostel) about 5 minutes drive out of town. I use the word town loosely as it was such a small place. The hostel was nice but really quite 'hippy' with insence burning and hairy airpits on show (not just the men). We had a decent little cabin thou...

The 'Clipper' is pretty similar to 'Ocean Breeze' (the boat we went to the barier reef on) in the sense that it is a sail boat with an engine. The 'Clipper' was bigger though, holding and sleeping 50 passengers (not including crew) with three different levels. The bottom deck was where the bedrooms were, middle the dining area and kitchen and topdeck for sun bathing and relaxing on. The 'Clipper' also came complete with a waterslide (off the side of the boat)...

Airlie Beach is a small costal town on the East Coast of Australia, the launching pad for tirps to the Whitsunday's..the exact reason why we had braved (we were all feeling slightly fragile) the trusty Greyhound and arrived in town. Again we had all our accommodation booked for us so all we had to do is find the hostel and check in, this was a breeze and we went to our room. Again the set up of our accommodation was almost like a resort, individual challets (...