On Monday we got up at silly oclock (5 in the morning - I kid you not) in order to get all our junk together for our little adventure. First duty of the day was checking out all of our equipment and making sure that we had all the stuff we needed so that we didn't die on the island. It had to be loaded into our verrrrry top heavy 4x4 van before we could attend a meeting about how to drive the rickety old rust buckets - errr I mean 'the nearly new vans' - and mo...

We arrived in Hervey Bay on Friday morning after another huge overnight journey from Mackay. Believe it or not, it was really sunny! We decided that we shouldn't just go to bed like we usually do and that we'd go to the beach and have a constructive tanning day. We mainly minced around the town for a bit to get our bearings (being just one main street this took us about 6 and a half minutes!) and then decided we'd book a little sailing trip for the followi...

Arrived in Mackay early afternoon...not much to say really! The town is very 'local' and the highlight of our stay here was the 3 scoop ice cream we treated ourselves to after the disappointment of our Whitsundays trip being cancelled. We also went to see "Mrs Henderson Presents" at the cinema...much better choice than the Cairns fiasco, plus Will Young is in it! Our bus to Hervey Bay was due at 10:15pm. Our hostel was quite a walk from the bus station, so...

On our last day in Airlie beach we spent most of the morning washing the foam party out of our hair - which is nice. It was raining yet again so we never really did much, we just tried to sort out the refund for our sailing and organise ourselves for the next part of our trip. We spent most of that evening making the most of having a TV in our room and spent most of the night being woken up by our roomies! How rude! We checked out of Airlie and got back o...

We arrived in Airlie Beach at 6pm on friday after the huge journey from Mission Beach. A bloke from the hostel came to meet us in a little mini bus and informed us that we might not actually have a bed in the hostel cos loads of people had been double booked. We managed to keep our cool and make it to the hostel without headlocking him and found that we did actually have a bed. Bonus! Took us an hour to actually get into our room though 'cos there was a mob of...