We ended our time in Australia exactly where we started - in the pishing down rain in Brisbane! After a five hour grey hound ride (the last of the numb bums for a while) we met up with Lenny our stalker, and headed for a chinese take-away for our farewell meal. It went down a storm and made the bean eaters backpackers in the communal kitchen v jealous. It was washed down with a box of goon and was about as emotional as you can get over a beverage that may incl...

The last couple of days in Hervey Bay passed pretty uneventfully. We spent most of it asleep! Apart from a case of the bed bugs in the ajoining room; which meant we had to move rooms and rewash the clothes we'd washed the day before! The highlights included lounging in the pool and eating our way through a mountain of cheap fajitas (sans sand) in the hostel bar. Other than these highly strenuous activities we did absolutely nowt! Love you all lots as ...

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...