After a short ride on the bus I arrive in Brisbane. Get to my hostel and meet up with Brendon. We take a walk around Brisbane and then go and have dinner at the Caxton Hotel, very nice.

Arrived at Hervey Bay monday evening from Kroombit and it was an early night, ready for my next adventure.... Fraser Island. Up at 6.45am for our briefing and to be put into the groups for the vehicles. There was eleven of us in ours. We sorted the drinks order and the food shopping then headed to the 4WD place to pack up our vehicles with tents etc. We then left for the barge to take us across to Fraser Island. The crossing took 30 mins and then it was time for...

Next stop on the East Coast, Kroombit Cattle Station. This is about halfway between Airlie Beach and Hervey Bay. It's a full working cattle/goat station that now allows tourists to come stay and help on the station. We arrived late afternoon after a 10 hour bus ride, very tired and hungry. Checked in and put our bags into our cabins then it was back down to the main area for drinks and dinner. Basically the main area consisted of to large sheds, one for dinner an...

Arrived in Airlie Beach on Saturday, then booked my trip to sail the Whitsundays. We left on Wednesday morning from the marina. The boat I was travelling on was the Waltzing Matilda. A smallish sail boat with only 13 passengers and 2 crew. Once all settled in and run through all the safety procedures we were off. First stop was to a cove off Hook Island for lunch and then some snorkling, I didn't actually go snorkling but took a ride in the tender. Then onto our ...

Bus picked us up from Mission Beach at 1pm and it was on the road to Townsville. Stopping off for lunch. We arrived in Townsville and caught the ferry over to Magnetic Island. My home for the couple of nights on the Island was the X Base Backpackers. Met up with some people that I met in Mission Beach. Had a good first night. The next day one of the guys had hired one of the little topless cars to go round the island so the four of us, Markus, Jim, Katie and I we...