I woke up in Bernie got up and showered and sorted the inside of the van out in the vain hope that everything wouldn’t fly everywhere as soon as I started moving. I also picked up the remaining cutlery from the floor which I hadn’t been able to see the previous night as it was […]
Read the rest of Friday 22nd August – Bernie’s trip from Ingham to Cardwell
I arrived in Airlie super early in the morning on the overnight bus. As usual I managed to get little to no sleep. As it was around 6AM I had 3 hours to kill until I could collect my campervan so got a taxi to the retail park near to the commercial centre where the […]
Read the rest of Thursday 21st August – Airlie again, Bernie and the road North
Before I left Agnes Water the girl on reception booked a room for me in a hostel in Rockhampton. The only problem with this is that I promptly forgot the name of the hostel and, by the point in time when I had realised this might be a valuable piece of information, her shift had finished. […]
Read the rest of Saturday 16th August to Wednesday 20th August – Rockhampton
I arrived in Agnes Water on the bus after an overnight trip from Airlie. I actually managed to doze slightly but, as always, felt rough after the long journey. We got out in the middle of nowhere but fortunately there was a friendly guy in a transfer minibus to take us to our various hostels. […]
Read the rest of Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th August – Agnes Water/ 1770
On the Tuesday I was lying in bed feeling slightly worse for wear when the cleaning ladies arrived. By this point Nadine had checked out and a German couple had checked in for the day. The cleaning ladies were distinctly unimpressed by the state of the room and the numerous beer bottles scattered everywhere. The […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 12th August to Wednesday 13th August – Airlie Beach
After a little while two of the cew arrived to take down our names and get us to sign a disclaimer lest we lose any limbs or destroy any vital organs, or they did, or the boat did, or something. We wandered to the boat and I chatted to two Emmas, one of whom turned […]
Read the rest of Saturday 9th August to Monday 11th August – “The Atlantic Clipper” and the Whitsundays
The bus journey from Hervey Bay to Airlie was, as I expected, slightly traumatic. Actually it wasn’t too bad but I didn’t really sleep. At one point myself and Josh (a friendly very talkative soul on the bus) got off for a cigarette when it stopped. The first driver had been very friendly and had […]
Read the rest of Thursday 7th August to Saturday 9th August – Airlie Beach
I woke up at Beaches in Hervey Bay, faffed online for a while and then headed to a shopping centre near the long distance bus terminal. I had actually meant to go to the shops near the bay but miraculously (I should so be used to this by now) got lost and ended up on a […]
Read the rest of Tuesday 5th August to Wednesday 6th August – Hervey Bay
I arrived at “Beaches” hostel in Hervey Bay and was pleasantly surprised. I was informed when I checked in that I had to be in the bar area for 7AM the next morning to be given the run down for the trip out to Fraser Island. I met two of the people who were going to […]
Read the rest of Saturday 2nd August to Monday 4th August – Fraser Island
I headed to Noosa on the bus from Surfers’ and checked into Dolphin Backpackers’ on Sunshine beach. The place had a good feeling about it and the setup where I was staying had two dorms in a self-contained unit with a living and kitchen area and a balcony at the rear. There was a group […]
Read the rest of Wednesday 30th July to Friday 1st August – Noosa