Well haven't I been a busy bee since I last wrote!

So after leaving Brisbane we headed to Noosa for a few days...Noosa is beautiful little beach town that is renowned for being expensive and popular with the rich and famous (so suffice to say that we ate in most nights... found an internet cafe that charged $12 and hour!!)

Had 3 nights in noosa in a really nice hostel which makes a change...then from Noosa we headed to Hervey Bay. This is a very weird place...known by the Oz bus drivers as the gateway to heaven as so many old poeple live here! But the only reason we were stopping here was to begin our adventure on Fraser Island! Fraser island is the largest sand island in the world (or something like that) and everyone whose anyone travelling up the east coast goes over there to camp!

So rise and shine once again ridculously early to join 30 people to watch a video on camping and how to be dingo safe!! No going for late night wee's on your own incase a dingo decides to attack! We wer also told not to swin in the sea as sharks and jelly fish are rife in this area...found that strangely unsetlling!

So off we go in our groups of 10 to pick up all camping gear and our huge 4x4!! Load up tha car (which was a mission in itself) and head off to catch the ferry over to Fraser! The fools in the car were even stupid enough to let me drive the beast off the car!! (Considering I drive a 1.2 Punto and hadn't driven in 10 weeks I thought it was pretty brave of everyone to let me drive the 10 seater truck)!!

Once we arrived in the Island the driving got really fun as it is all sandy hills and roads where you slide around as if your on ice! After a gruelling hours drive we arrived at lake McKenzie...absolutely the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!! And a fresh water lake so no salty crustiness back in the car! Was like something out of The Beach! Pure Paradise!

So before nightfall we have to set up camp...the tents we were given looked like something that had survived a war...literally four corners and a pole in the middle! But i'm getting pretty used to this way of life now! Cooked our own BBQ on the gas fire and watched the sun set...aaaahhhhh! Was great until the early hours of the morning when the tent became a hot enough to cook in! Oh and then a freak wave came over the dube we had sheltered behind and soaked our tent! Not a good start! anyway...loads more driving to do and plenty more to see so head off to Indian Head...a lookout point on the top of a MAHOOSIVE hill where supposedly you can look out and see sharks! Well i walked up that hill (even though this island was hotter than the sun itself)!! And i didn't see one bloody shark for my troubles!! Did see some gigantic spiders though...(our mate Vicky who we have been travelling with has a serious phobia off Spiders and practically cried when we walked past them...she ran past with a towel covering her head...apprently non poisonous spiders are more scary than falling off the face of a hill into shark infested waters!)

So after the trek up the hill we were all boiloing and went to these pools called champagne pools because of the way the sea comes in a looks like bubbles going in a glass!

That night set up camp again...but this time in the rain and wind! These tents could just about hack a breeze so it was no surprise when one caollapsed in on 3 of the sleeping girls! Was the worst noghts sleep pf my life! The tent sounded like it was going to take off!! And then to top it off the dingoes managed to open our cool box and steal some food! They are clever little b*****s...but not that clever as they left a whole pack of buurgers and ran off with a lettuce and a pot of yoghurt!

Next day was last day on island...was pretty relieved by this point as i hadn't seen a shower in 3 days! Luckily there were toilets scattered around the island and although they were inhabited by insects and dingoes it was less demeaning than having to use the shovel of shame (there was no inconspicuos way to go to the loo when you were forced to take a bright yellow shovel to dig a hole!)

Our itineray told us to take a 45 minute stroll to Lake Wabby (another fresh water lake) Yeah right!! An hour and a half later we crossed the desert!! And i mean a desert to arrive at a very green looking lake! Not impressed! But we were all so hot we got in anyway! Then we trekked it back for our last adventure in the monster truck to catch the ferry home! I have never been so grateful for a shower in my life! Was an amazing experience and I seriously won't forget it!

So after going to bed at about 8 o'clock we were up early again for a 6 hour journey (funny but 6 hour journey actually seems short to us now!Especially when I am taking photos of mike sleeping like a nodding dog as amusemet!) We arrived in Kroombit...this is a cattle station 200km inland (so getting a bit like the outback). Didn't see another car for about the last hour of the journey...(we're certainly not in Kansas anymore toto!) Arrived to be shown our 6 bed room which was actually a converted stable - but to their credit it did have air con! Here we had loads of activities to do!

Me and Vicky headed off to ride horses and herd goats! Was quite a lot of us and we had to say what ability we were...when selina (our guide) looked at me as one of the last people left to get a horse and asked how long I had been riding I stupidly said..."oh ages!! And was rewarded with a horse called dancer! Cacked myself a bit but then remebered I actually can ride and dancer turned out to be very docile! Once all the goats were herded (we had to go around the edge of a field shouting "Hey up up up"...looked and sounded like a right bunch of t***!) we all headed back for the next activity! Goat rodeo!! The aim of goat rodeo is as follows! 3 in a team...put in a pen with a random goat...1 of you has to catch it by the horns and drag it to a circle drawn in the middle...then next person has to grab goat by the legs, flip it on to it's side and kneel on it to hold it down...in the right place so as not to crush it! (that was my job)...and then last person has to fake brand it! Was a wicked game...especially when Mike and Jonny's goat did a houdini act and jumped the 6 ft fence out of the pen!

After that all back to the ranch for dinner some whip cracking and a go on the mechanical bull...which I was absolutely pants at and i managed to rip my jeans gettin on the bloody thing! Oh and I have been absolutely eaten alive by Mossies!!

Last couple of days we have spent in Rockhampton....right weird little town but we ferried it over to the most beautiful secluded island and stayed for a night! Highlight of the island being that a possom fell off of a rolling door straight on to mike and he screamed like a girl! Had to leave Vicky and Jonny today as mike and I heading off up the coast to reach Cairns by the 7th Feb! Was all very emotional as we have travelled with them for nearly a month!

Next stop is Airlie beach for our whitsundays sailing trip...up nice and early again for an 8 hour coach journey...honestly I am taking travel sick tablets like they are smarties! Dealing them and buying them wherever I can!

Sorry peeps...know this has turned into a bit of an essay but as you can see...a lot can happen in 10 days up the east coast!!

Speak soon!!