It was time for our escape from backwards bay to a desert island surrounded by seas that should not be swam in as they contain sharks and strong currents. Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world covered with beautiful lakes, forested areas and immense sand dunes. Of the 11 people that were on our trip, 7 we had made friennds with before the trip and had all agreed to go together, the other 4 were unknown although by the end of the trip everyone was ...

There was only time for a quick stop in Brisbane as time was ticking down until our flight. Our first night there was our last night with Scouse Simon and being such an emotional time there was only one sensible solution - drinking games. After polishing off a box of goon we made our way down to the dancefloor at the oub below our accomodation where a 40ish year old woman tried her luck to get herself a younger fella for a while we thought Simon had been somehow ...

After Cairns it was down to the whitsundays where sailing was on the cards with our new travelling companions Chris, Tom, Simon and Ian. The sailing trip was amazing and the whitsundays are a beautiful place although i felt sea sick during most of the sailing (i really shouldn't be a diver). I got to do another free dive here but being brilliantly organised i had left my licence at the hostel so after several diving questions and proving i could put a rig t...

A few days in Cairns turned in to a few weeks at our hostel - The Asylum. The place does strange things to your head (we weren't sure if some odd 'inmates' had come thinking it was an actual Asylum) and no one ever wants to leave. There was always alot to report from Asia especially over two weeks but in Cairns we managed to do very little but have the most fun. We met a great bunch of people from the Asylum and we travelled with Simon from Liverpool and Ian f...