So. From Hervey (wearing my crown with pride) we took off through Bundaberg (where they have rum and turtles) and on up to Kroombit for a night on a cattle ranch - of all places. Our first little treat at this place was an announcement that we were going wrestle goats into submission and then pretend to brand them - how on earth I get into these situations is beyond me! Dee has left us but Jo is still here and we've also met Adam and Bex - who are crazy - ...

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...

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...

New bus, new driver, new group etc etc etc. We set-off from Byron to Nimbin - dubbed the Amsterdam of Oz apparently. Cannabis isn't legal here but it's as good as. The place was full of grim stoners and complete down-and-outs which was a bit of a disappointment. We were expecting lots of peace, love and all that mallarky but there was none to be had and so we weren't too disappointed that we only had a couple of hours there before we took off to Surfers P...

New bus, new driver, new group etc etc etc. We set-off from Byron to Nimbin - dubbed the Amsterdam of Oz apparently. Cannabis isn't legal here but it's as good as. The place was full of grim stoners and complete down-and-outs which was a bit of a disappointment. We were expecting lots of peace, love and all that mallarky but there was none to be had and so we weren't too disappointed that we only had a couple of hours there before we took off to Surfers P...