Blog : noosa We were all so excited getting on the bus to Noosa, to go visit Jack M and his family, it was going to be another Australian LOCOG marketing team reunion! And nice to see my desk neighbour again :) First though was the lunch stop, which some greyhounds have and others not, its a bit hit and miss. This one though was at a huge Matilda service station which randomly had a giant kangaroo built in the car park which looked quite Wallace and gromit-esque...

Blog : hervey bay and frazer island The Hervey Bay bus station was in the middle of what looked like a combination between the interchange park at home (the one with Matalan and the pet shop and that) and also some where American... It had s***ty shops and a big target supermarket and department store and stuff... My first impressions of Hervey Bay was that it was going to be the quaint fishing village type place i had envisaged!! Across the road from the Greyh...

Blog : Agnes water and 1770 So officially the longest coach journey i think ive ever done... 11 and a half hours i think it ended up being from Airlie Beach to Agnes water... Overnight. I slept for almost all of it but it was so uncomfortable to be all screwed up on one seat with my backpack at my feet and big headphones on... They're not the most comfortablist things to sleep in when leaning against the window!! I woke up with lines from the cable all over my f...

Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday islands We arrived in the scorching heat to Airlie beach after a bit of a rough bus journey (again!) it was a non stop so no nice lunch break like we were becoming accustomed to or a leg stretch. The bus was relatively full but we thought we might be lucky and all get a pair of seats each but a girl wed met higher up the coast got on and neither of the other girls looked like they were moving their outstretched legs for toffee so ...

We had to get the minibus from Jackaroo to the Greyhound bus station an hour earlier than we needed to because there was an earlier arriving bus full of newbies for the hostel... We were up early and made packed lunches and put all of our leftover food and bits into the cold bag ready for the journey down to Townsville and beyond. The greyhound was due at 10 and at 20 past we were getting agitated having sat in the really strong morning sun for 1h 20 waiting alre...