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Adventures of Laurie and Matt

Fraser Island – The Largest Sand Island in the World

AUSTRALIA | Monday, 1 Nov 2010 | Views [440]

We arrived at Hervey Bay and said Goodbye to Kristen as she was going further down the coast to Rainbow beach to get to Fraser. We caught one of the hostel mini buses to the hostel we were staying at 'The Friendly Hostel”. The guy was lovely ... Read more >


Agnus Waters – Town of 1770

AUSTRALIA | Friday, 29 Oct 2010 | Views [701]

After our 10 hour overnight journey we arrived in Agnus Waters, Town of 1770, the first place Captain Cook fist set foot on Australia. We were in the middle of nowhere again. We were picked up by an older guy who runs the hostel we were staying at, ... Read more >


Photos: Whitsundays

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010 | Photo Gallery


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Whitsunday Islands....

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010 | Views [336]

We got off our bus from Townsville and arrived at Airlie beach the place to be to get to the Whitsunday Islands. We hadn't booked anywhere so went to the first hostel we saw which was a YHA. We booked to stay in a dorm and chucked our stuff in the ... Read more >


Maggie I think I've got something to say to yoooouu...

AUSTRALIA | Monday, 25 Oct 2010 | Views [438]

We arrived in Townsville and again the weather was a bit iffy, it had rained a fair amount of our bus journey down. Booking our hostel was last minute and we struggled as there was a Full Moon party happening on the Island. But Matt managed to find ... Read more >


Photos: Mission Beach and Maggie Island

AUSTRALIA | Friday, 22 Oct 2010 | Photo Gallery


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Our trip down the sunshine state – maybe not so much sunny though.

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 21 Oct 2010 | Views [399]

We are travelling down the coast by coach and we have a jump on jump off pass all the way from Cairns to Melbourne. Our next stop from Cairns is Mission Beach which is meant to be a great place to skydive and lay around on the beach, also it is ... Read more >


Photos: Swimming in 'Paradise'

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 21 Oct 2010 | Photo Gallery


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Swimming with Nemo and Friends

AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 20 Oct 2010 | Views [343]

After our trip to Cape Trib we were back down to Cairns to do our Great Barrier Reef Tour, we were a bit sceptical because the weather was a bit on and off and if its cloudy you don't see the colours of the reef as brightly. We kept our fingers ... Read more >


Photos: Cape Tribulation and Cairns

AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 20 Oct 2010 | Photo Gallery


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Cape Trib

AUSTRALIA | Friday, 15 Oct 2010 | Views [390]

Great Barrier Reef – Check and Oldest Rainforest in the world – Check! We went on our trip up to Cape Tribulation for 3 days – we got picked up from our hostel and the coach took us two hours up the coast. We did a bit of a small rainforest ... Read more >


Off We Go!

AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 13 Oct 2010 | Views [412]

OK, OK – The delay of the update has been long one! But we are now back on our travels after living and working in Brisbane for 8 months, Matt working for Virgin Blue and myself as a Silk Flower delivery girl. We have made great friends over ... Read more >


Stradbrooke Island

AUSTRALIA | Friday, 21 May 2010 | Views [767] | Comments [1]

What an amazing weekend we had!                                                            Stradbrooke Island is like paradise with its wildlife, sights and small population. We went with our friends we met at the hostel and drove to Cleveland ... Read more >


Photos: Our Australian Home

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 29 Apr 2010 | Photo Gallery

Our house in Auchenflower
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Photos: Noosa

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 29 Apr 2010 | Photo Gallery

Weekend in Noosa
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Our New Home and Noosa

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 29 Apr 2010 | Views [652]

Sorry for the delay! We have moved into our new house now and have been living here for nearly a month. Have really settled in nicely now with our 5 other ozzies house mates. We have the en-suite room as we are the only couple in the house which is a ... Read more >


Our First Month!

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 8 Apr 2010 | Views [630] | Comments [2]

G'day! Our first month in Brisbane now, have done a lot of sight seeing but only around Brisbane at the moment and have met some really great characters too, especially in the hostel we were staying at. On our first day it was very hot! Coming from ... Read more >


Photos: Brissy

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 8 Apr 2010 | Photo Gallery

Our trip so far...
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