Hi there :) I've just noticed that the date line of my journal entries doesn't make chronological sense - this is because I have no idea what day it is half the time so we'll just have to try and make the best of it! Hervey Bay is a really cute little place. We spent one night here before going on a self-drive tour of Fraser Island. Me, H and Emma have met two great girls - Jo and Dee - and we were all in the same 4WD together so the next few days we...

On yet another bus. Poor Marike - who has stayed in Sydney - had to get up at 6.00am to help carry my backpack after my tumble down a mountain. My foot is huge and it's gone black and I'm not a happy bunny about it. My poorly foot - and the debacle that led to my injury - has caused much hilarity wherever we've gone. Thankfully Emma and Helen both studied some sort of physical activity course at uni so they're both clued-up on strapping my foot with ice and a...

Well here we are then. In four days I can confidently say that me and three girls from the bus have managed to cram in as much as there was to see in Sydney. We wandered around Sydney Harbour and over the Bridge. We picnicked in the Botanical Gardens and went to see the Rocks Markets. We did Bondi and Manly (both in one day no less) and spent the day at the Blue Mountains. Each day has been filled with complete nonsense (as is typical for Kate's world to...

Hideee Hi In Noosa now - sleepy little town, good surf (not that I'm any good at it!), nice pubs and the Steve Irwin Zoo. Couldn't be bothered to go to the Zoo (my poorly foot is still giving me gip) but the girls went and managed to go on (probably) the one day in the year when Stevo was actually there so that was exciting for them. I met two guys from Bristol and an ace lad from oop North and we just speant three days chilling out "body surfing" - wh...

We left Jindebyne vowing to go on some sort of detox or drinking amnesty and stopped in Canderra on the wat to Sydney. We saw the Parliament Houses (old and new) and the "Tent Embassy". This is an aboriginal protest which is literally a tent outside Parliament House, outside which is a fire that was lit 30 years ago and has been maintained as part of the fight to gain recognition for aboriginal land-rights etc. We saw the War Memorial and then had a long, bori...