From previous experiences with boats on our trip we should have thought about choosing a sailing boat a bit more carefully! We were "lucky" enough to get a double bed on the boat, it was 10x better than the bunk beds however it was far from anything we had imagined. We had packed shampoo and conditioner but I dont know what we were hoping for beacuse there wasnt even a shower! We both said we weren't going to go into the sea in Australia but somehow we found our...

We had an amazing three days on Fraser Island, up there with highights of the trip so far! Over the course of the the three days we got to enjoy natural lakes, rock pools and plenty of rainforest walks. We were lucky enough to see so many different wild animals, inlcuding snakes, dingos, sharks and most importantly a huge humpback whale which we saw so close to the shore! We also made some really good friends on the trip, another couple from England so it was n...

On Sunday we arrived in Surfers Paradise, our first stop on the Gold Coast. It was only a 3 hour coach journey from Byron Bay, so as soon as we got there and checked into our hostel we had time to go and look around. We also ended up having a 4 bed room to ourselves too which was a bit of luck. There wasn't too much to do in surfers paradise and we spent most of our time shopping and eating, Carys was in her element with all the shops. After a couple days of sho...

Our Sydney trip continued on Tuesday morning with our exciting journey climbing the Sydney Harbour bridge! We got off to a very scary start with us both unsure if we would even enjoy it. However 20 minutes in we absolutely loved it! The views and experience were amazing and so worth doing. We then spent the afternoon in Manly which was a beautiful little town, as we got the ferry back into Sydney we were lucky enough to catch the sun setting over the harbour whic...

Our flight from Bangkok to Sydney went fairly quickly and I think that was helped by the fact we were so excited to get to Australia! We arrived early morning, we checked in and headed straight out to start exploring! We spent the day looking around Sydney and had lunch at the Opera house and then went into China town, did some shopping and finished the day with dinner in Darling Harbour. We were so jet lagged so ended up in bed by 6pm!! Today we went on the fa...