Alicia: Day1: We finally stepped off the plane in the Northern Hemisphere around 6pm Sat 20th Oct. As we'd arrived after sunset we could see all the skyscrapers and the multitude of lights the whole bus trip to our hostel. We were staying in the Wan Chai / Cauaeway Bay area on the island in a place called YesInn which was pretty nice with triple decker bunk beds :D Was a long day ( we'd got up at 2am for our flight from Cairns) so after a quick stint in the mass...

Alicia: So we've come to the end of our Australian Adventure, here in Cairns, Northern Queensland. Been here the past two weeks now and have seen some of our highlights from our whole trip so far. Arrived into Cairns on the Sunday night having failed to find a decent rest stop or cheap campsite for our last night in Freddo, and have stayed in the Nomads Serpent hostel - the same one we'll stay in for our entire Cairns visit since so not had to carry our stuff ar...

Mike's Dive Diaries Day 1: We were picked up at 8 and went to the CDC (Cairns Dive Centre, NOT the Centre for Disease Control) shop to have our picture taken and fill out a bunch of forms. There were 9 of us on our course, 3 Germans (Jacob, Paul and Marisa), 2 French (Adrian and Guilan), 2 Swedish (Magdalina and Peter) and 1 guy from Denmark (Oli), so a very European group. After all the forms were signed we headed over to the class room where we talked through...

Day 21: We packed up our van in the morning say our goodbyes to Chris, Phil and a few others, jumped into Freddo and headed out of Hervey Bay. That day was a long drive, we were going to stop at Bundaberg to tour the rum distillery, unfortunately we arrive too late as we want to get up to a place called 1770 / Agnes Water to do something called Scooter Roo. We arrived in Agnes Water about 1:30 and sign up for Scooter Roo to start at 2:15. Scooter Roo is a compa...

Mike: Day 15: After we leave Brisbane the Pacific Highway changes into the Bruce Highway. There is a lot of traffic and road works, a trip that was going to take us 2 hours took us 4. Especially around Australia Zoo where the traffic was particularly grid locked. We arrived in Noosa and met the tour van around 4. We follow in the Jucy camper but have to turn around half way there as he left someone behind. Take 2. On the way there we stopped off at a supermarket...