EAST COAST TRIP!!!

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Here is the run down, hopefully all the links will help you understand whats going on:

Saturday June 7th: take a bus to Noosa which is on the northern part of the Sunshine Coast about 130 km North of Brisbane. The next 4 nights we are staying at a backpackers resort with free surfboards, boogie boards and bikes. Hopefully we can figure out how to successfully surf while checking out what the Sunshine Coast has to offer.

Wednesday June 11th. We hop on a bus mid day and go to Rainbow Beach. This is the base for where you set off for Fraser Island. We spend two nights in Rainbow Beach because we have to attend a meeting on the afternoon of the 12th. Bright and early Friday the 13th we head off for the Island. We are spending 3 days, 2 nights traveling around all there is to see in a 4X4 with 6-8 strangers. We camp where we want and see what we want. There is supposed to be amazing lakes and beaches which is the main reason for going. Sunday June 15th we return to Rainbow Beach for a night of partying. The next day we have off to surf the beaches there.
http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Fraser-Island/
http://www.dkd.net/fraser/

The night of June 16th we take a bus to Aerlie Beach arriving at 7 or 8 in the morning of the 17th. Here we spend the day checking out the town staying in a hostel that night. The next morning we take a trimaran boat called Avatar for 3 days and 2 nights through the Whitsunday Islands stopping at amazing beaches and doing tonnes of snorkeling.
http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Whitsundays/
www.whitsundaytourism.com
http://www.ozsailing.com.au/vessel.php?name=Avatar

We return back to land on the night of the 20th staying over at the same hostel as the 17th. The next day is spent taking a bus to Mission Beach. That night we stay at a hostel in Mission Beach. The 22nd is spent rafting the Tully River Rapids. The Next day we wake up early and do a 14000 foot skydive. I would love to see my moms face right now lol. After that hopefully we can calm ourselves enough to hop on a bus and go to Cairns. That night we stay in a hostel which we will be in for the next while. The next day we go bungee jumping.
http://www.jumpthebeach.com.au/
http://www.raft.com.au/welcome/video.html
http://www.ajhackett.com.au/

The morning of the 25th we begin a 5 day PADI scuba diving course to become registered divers. This involves two days of in class and theory mixed with applied stuff in a pool. After those two days we go on a 3 day 2 night live aboard tour of the Great Barrier Reef completing 9 dives and snorkeling on the side.
http://www.cairnsdive.com.au/divecourse/3/5-day-learn-to-dive-liveaboard.htm

That ends on the 29th where we stay over at the same hostel we had been staying at the whole time in Cairns.

That is how we are spending our first month travelling up the east coast of Australia!

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