Next up on the agenda was the Whitsunday cruise, a two night boat ride to see one of the nicest beachest in the world: Whitehaven beach, with some snorkelling and sailing thrown in too. Cos I'm a crazy kid, I'd opted for the Tongarra boat, known as a party boat where the crew try and get you wasted the entire time. If there's anything I've learned from travelling so far it's that these 'drunken westerners ruining the peace and calm of stunning natural locations' ...

So I'd done the surfer dude thing, now it was time to experience another stereotypical aussie lifestyle: the cowboy. Kroombit is a genuine functioning cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere and is a compulsory stop on the Oz Experience bus. I don't think I've ever tried so many new things in one day before, it was brilliant. First off though we had another compulsory stop at a place called Emu Park, which ironically has no Emus in it, it's just the name of the...

Fraser island is one of the must-do trips that everyone raves about along the east coast, and with good reason, it's pretty awesome. It's the biggest sand island in the world complete with forests and sandblows and lakes... plus lots of dingos just to keep things interesting. Everyone explores it on one of the tag along 4WD tours where you take turns to drive along the beach with 7 other people in each car, then camp somewhere on the island. I had a great three...

Woooo SUNSHINE! Pretty much as soon as we left Sydney the sun came out and it's been shining ever since, making me a little bit less tempted to get straight on a flight back to Asia, Oz is slowly growing on me! I've started my East coast adventure now with Oz experience, finally managing to catch the bus on Wednesday (I woke up at 3am just to make sure I caught the 6am bus, there was no way I was missing it this time!) and headed off to Spot X, a surf camp. They'...

So I'm still in Sydney. I was supposed to be getting on my bus today but it set off at 6:15am and I woke up at 7am, oops. So now I have to stay here for another two days to catch the next Oz Experience bus (could get Greyhound but I wanna make friends dammit). Considering the majority of my time in Sydney's been spent inside in my PJs, I'm not too thrilled about this extension. I've only actually ventured into the city twice... having a bit of a holiday from my h...