When reaching Melbourne after a gruelling and tiresome 17 hour journey, the door to the bus opened and the goose bumps already began to appear on our arms and legs, although it was still probably 20 degrees but a lot chillier than what we were used to! We checked into our new hostel which was situated just outside the city in a place called St Kilda. After equipting ourselves with hats and scarfs to combat the almost sub zero temperatures, we headed out into the ...

Continued..................After taking in the breathtaking views we went on a guided tour to the bottom of the mountains through the dense jungle where we experienced different views of the amazing scenery. Unfortunately though we did suffer a fatality along the journey and once again it was the loss of another cameras life (poor old Vivian!) by the hands of Mr Critchley! He was inconsolable because of the loss of more pics and the love of his life! We then head...

Our Premier Coach arrived in Sydney after an overnight 12 hour trip from Byron Bay - fortunately we had a few remains from the cookies we had acquired from Nimbin which sent us into the land of nod for the majority of the journey! Disembarking the coach at 6am on a Sunday morning in a dazed mood with no chance of checking into our accomodation yet we decided to take an early morning stroll around the empty city to check out the Darling Harbour and wha...

We arrived at Byron Bay at 20:00 Oz time with no accomodation booked assuming there would atleast be a bed or two somewhere for us. But after two hours of calling every hostel in the area we realised that we should probably never assume again as there were no beds available anywhere! We waited at the hostel bus pick up point asking the drivers if they could find us anywhere to kip - and by this time we were quite willing to sleep on the beach or in a public to...

We got to Surfers Paradise and the main bus terminal early evening and while waiting for our mini bus to our hostel we came across what we thought was a small child sitting on a bench. Concerned for her safety we thought we'd better check if she was ok and fortunately she turned out to be a pocket sized 24yr old called Bec who was staying at our hostel - and to Gav's delight he later found out that she owned a pair of hair straightners, no other than god da...