Arrived in beautiful Brissie! The capital of Queensland - The Sunshine State, and one of the fastest growing cities in the world! What gorgeous weather here today. Brisbane is so different to everywhere we have been already! A lovely city, swarming with people. We did some shopping and had a good look around before going to stay with Johnna (dads cousin) who lives here and is so kindly putting us up for 3 nights! It feels so great to be in a house rather than a g...

Up early for another cooked breaky and our last day on Fraser Island! We packed up camp and headed straight off in the trucks! Firstly we stopped at the Pinnacles. Amazing coloured rocks, orange and yellow. The aboriginal legend is that this man was promised a young girl to marry, but discovered she had fallen in love with another man so he killed the girl when she jumped in front of her lover who the man was actually trying to kill with his boomerang and the ro...

Terrible night's sleep! Poured with rain all night so a constant pitter patter on the tent and it was absolutely freezing! I was sure there was a dingoe outside my tent but turned out to just be one of the chaps snoring in a neighbouring tent! Up at 6am today, such an uncomfortable night! Woken up at about 5am by the kookaburras laughing in the trees, but greeted by a cooked breakfast and pancakes! We set off to Lake Wabby first thing. A 40 minute walk from the...

Wow what beautiful weather to start our Fraser Island trip! Not a cloud in the sky as we piled into the 4WD and set off to the ferry to the island across the 'grey nurse' shark infested waters! The sea around the island is a specific breeding ground for the protected endangered sharks...definitely no swimming in the sea! Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world stretching 75 miles. We arrived on the island and started to head along the exceedingly b...

We are now in Hervey Bay! Lovely hostel here...and its free! Included in our Fraser Island tour price! Beautiful sunshine when we arrived this afternoon so we were straight out to the pool, lathered in suncream, trying to build our tans! On the way here we passed many more of the very common sugar cane crop fields. 'Sonic' our cute little bus driver telling us stories about how they cut the crop before machinery...the cane fields are full of rats, which attract t...