So, it's probably about time we gave a bit of an update. Fraser Island seems ages ago now and we've certainly packed in a few stops since then! We've also been sharing a lot of it with some of our Fraser Island group. We got on so well and it turned out that all except a few of us were going to be travelling back down to Sydney, so we decided to keep in touch with each other along the way. NOOSA First stop after Rainbow beach was Noosa. The weather was shining while we were there and the place [View Full Entry]

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So, we had booked our Fraser Island tour at the same place we sorted out our Whitsundays trip - we got a package deal type thing. After our sailing we opted for a few days rest in 1770 - a really nice little town on the beach and it was well worth going to. After that we moved to Rainbow Beach and checked into the hostel that we were booked to stay for one night before the Fraser Island trip and one night when we got back, and Dingo's was its name'o. On the night before going to Fraser, we [View Full Entry]

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Well, we booked a 3 day/3 night trip sailing around the Whitsundays, getting off and snorkelling around when ever they anchored up the boat. We met some great people on the boat and had a great time, swimming with turtles, sting-rays, sharks, lots of colourful, beautiful coral and hundreds of amazing fish. We stopped off at the Whithaven Beach on the first day, it has the purest, whitest, finest sand in the world - its 98% silica and was, apparantly, very good to clean your jewellery with as it was so fine. The weather wasn't too hot so we were [View Full Entry]

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4 hours down the coast from Mission Beach and we'd arrived at Townsville. We noticed on the way through the town that there was hardly anyone to be seen, the place was like a ghost town?? Anyway, we weren't stopping but taking a short ferry ride over to Magnetic Island. A fairly small place, 2000 people and about 7km from the south to the north of the island. We've been staying in a great place, "Bungalow Bay" resort in the north, in our own little hut amongst the trees. There's a wildlife sanctuary in the grounds of where we're staying, [View Full Entry]

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We bought ourselves a Greyhound pass that takes us from Cairns to Sydney as we start the East Coast Run back to Sydney for our flights to NZ. Our first stop was Mission Beach, partly because we thought I'd be a nice place to chill for a while, and partly because we'd rather avoid any long and uncomfortable bus journeys if there's chance. And so what to say about Mission Beach..... well not a lot. It definately a place to chill and spend some time not really doing anything. There's plenty of beach and not much else. It's a popular [View Full Entry]

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HEY. So, we bought our own little camera pouch thing so that we can now take our great digital camera under the water (only up to 5 metres - but still better than hiring one every time we go on the reef - it alllllllll adds up) and take some really good pictures. This time we went with a different company that took us to two different locations. At the first stop, we spotted (including all of the beautiful coral and other pretty fish) one turtle who didnt seem to mind me just swimming along behind him, as long as [View Full Entry]

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Lakes, Waterfalls and amazing scenery Australasia » Australia » Queensland » Atherton Tablelands By FosterGibbons May 18th 2007 Chris & Caroline After our stay in the Rainforest, we still had a few days left on our trusty c [View Full Entry]

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So, we got the "scenic railway tour" return trip to Kuranda up in the rainforest to meet lots of indigenous people and see lots of wildlife and beautiful scenic views on the journey up there. As you can see, I had to put the Koala photos first as they are THE BEST!!!! They are such sweet things! They just literally sit in your arms and snuggle you. I had to pay extra to hold it and have a professional photo with it, we were allowed to take extra photos with our own camera, I was just passing Mr Koala over [View Full Entry]

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MORE PHOTOS Australasia » Australia » Queensland » Cairns By FosterGibbons May 9th 2007 Chris & Carolinehello, heres some more photos for you!!!! Of the Reef, Melbourne and just for some smiles. . . . :) [View Full Entry]

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WOW It was amazing guys. The coral, the fish, the clams, the starfish, the aneomes, the colours - it was beautiful! amazing!! Unfortunately I was not allowed to Scuba Dive but it turned out you could actually see more just doing the snorkelling! So all was not lost and I had a great time - the most incredible time. the reef was so colourful and there were fish every direction I turned! Chris did the Scuba Diving (and very much enjoyed it too the lucky devil) & I very much enjoyed laughing at him in his Power Ranger's suit! It [View Full Entry]

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