After leaving Magnetic Island it was back to a city and a short local bus, then ferry took us back to Townsville. This was the day that we were meeting Koo (a friend from Uni) and she was kind enough to book us into a hostel and organise a pick up from the ferry terminal. Koo came with the hostel bus to pick us up, I can only imagine she was very excited to see me, seen as she left England for sunnier times last December it has been a while. She had treated ...

Although we did have fun at Mission Beach we were hoping for more from Magnetic Island. After catching a Greyhound Bus to Townsville, then a ferry to Magnetic Island and local bus (on Magnetic Island) we arrived at Base Backpackers. It was a beautiful location, situated in Nelly Bay, one of many beaches the island had to offer. The accommodation was more like a resort in style with large open bar area complete with decking looking out over Nelly Bay. We chec...

After spedning quite a long time in Cairns and suffiently killing enough time, we finally began our journey down the East Coast of Australia and nearer to our rendevous with Kirsty aka Koo. Our first (or technically second stop) on the East Coast was Mission Beach. To be completly honest this was a stop that our travel agent in Peter Pan's had suggested we stop off at on the way and therefore were not too sure what we would find. As our Greyhound bus pu...

WWOOF: Willing Workers On Organic Farms. "Volunteering to work for your food and accommodation, between 4 - 6 hours per day." In order to WWOOF you must buy a WWOOFing handbook which has details of hundreds and hundreds of organic farms across Australia you can choose to work on. This would have normally taken a long time to pick and then it is luck whether you get a fun, enjoyable farm or not. Luckily for us the travel agent (Kenny) we spoke to about WWOOFing h...

After experiencing the below averageness of Darwin we got on another early morning flight to Cairns. Once we arrived we weere greeted at our hostel by Mr. Joe Gaytten. Joe has been living and working in Australia for the last 10 months (in Sydney) and decided it was time to have a look roundthe place, starting in Cairns. We got lucky when checking into our hostel and managed to bag some $27 dorm beds for $18, Cairns was alrfeady better than Darwin. Down on ...