The bus took around three hours to Townsville then we had to catch a ferry over to Magnetic Island which only took about 20 minutes due to the super charged massive ferry that took us over! Then we caught the local bus to the YHA hostel we were staying at. After getting settled into our room we went for a dip in the pool  and chilled out for a while. We had been given some free $20 food and drink vouchers as part of the deal for our room so we used those to get ...

A two hour bus journey on the Greyhound and we were in Mission Beach. We had had 3 days of nice weather in cairns but on the way down we ran into more rain!! So no beach for us! (Not that you can swim in the sea anyway due to the huge saltwater crocs and the deadly box jellyfish!) We were having our first dorm experience sharing with four other people, luckily we all got on well and two of the people were doing the white water rafting with us the next day. It rai...

Our first time down under, sunny sunny oz; after a long flight we walked out of the airport to RAIN!! Torrential rain!! We caught the bus to our hostel and quickly realised just how expensive things in Australia really are. Our room consisted of a double bed and a fan, we couldn't use the air con as it sounded like a train and it was a shared bathroom. The same priced room in Asia would of been a 5* hotel so it was quite a shock. On the up side we got a free ...