Today we were awoken at 6:45am by Wayne after a 'lie-in' - he normally gets everyone up at 6:30! We'd had heavy rain during the night but we'd managed to stay dry inside our tent, although we were pretty stiff after a night on the sand! Breakfast was cornflakes and there's been plenty of food to go around so far - we won't starve! Last night's chicken stir fry was pretty good too…anyway, enough about the food! After a quick stop at the shops and toilets (bi...

An early start for us today as we had to check out at 7am. It took quite a while to sort everything out before we left - it was mostly the food we had to sort; each group had to check they had everything in their boxes that was on the list! Luxuries included corned beef (which was nothing like the corned beef we know), steaks and 'Asian sauce' for our chicken stir-fry! After our guide Wayne helped us to pack everything into eskis (cool boxes) we eventually pack...

Today we headed for Rainbow Beach on the Greyhound - sad to leave Noosa, but looking forward to our adventure on Fraser Island! We arrived at our hostel, Fraser's on Rainbow, a little early so we had plenty of time to settle in before our briefing for the Island at 2pm. We're heading off on a tag-along tour - a group of 4WDs with a lead guide and lots of tents catch the ferry across to Fraser Island, the biggest sand island in the world, for 3 days and 2 nights ...

Today was Kelly's 26th birthday so we got up a bit early and she opened her cards and presents; we got her an awesome present of an Australia themed tea towel and coasters for when she moves house. As Dave said, we never thought we'd ever buy her a tea towel for a birthday present! We were off to the Australia Zoo today and caught the shuttle bus at 8:30. On the way, they played a DVD of one of Steve Irwin's many documentaries to get us in the mood. At the zoo, ...

Day 2 in Noosa…our fist stop was the Coles supermarket in town after getting a shock at the restaurant prices last night - pasta and sauce in the hostel for us tonight! We dropped the shopping off and got ready for our first surfing lesson! I was very excited, Laura was quite excited, and Kel was nervous and not really excited! It's something I think everyone should try when in Australia, so we all decided to give it a go. We were picked up from the hostel and...