Australia

Having already done a couple of days a few of us are sent out to a property up behind the little town of Silkwood. Blaze Aid made a bit of a foe pa by sending

First day on the job and after a pretty rough introduction from the guy who’s temporarily in charge, the group of us head out to a lettuce farm not too far out of Tully.

The bus from Townsville to Tully was not particularly long but had a meal break for those heading all the way to Cairns. I’m well aware that I’m heading to what is in all fairness

The boat journey across from the Townsville Harbour is a very rough one and so I arrive on Magnetic island feeling a little worse for wear as I catch the bus onto Alma Bay where

So Townsville … Hmm. Townsville is an odd place. A big town or once again city but with no people. The entire place is empty, the whole time I was there, there was never anyone

I arrived in Airlie Beach at half nine and luckily was able to check into my hostel. I hadn’t slept on the bus but thought it was a better idea to stay up rather than

It’s always good arriving places in the middle of the night because then there’s the fun bit in the morning when you wake up and wander outside to find out where you actually are. My

Leaving Bundaberg on the Greyhound we ended up in some typical Queensland weather with one of the scariest but most exciting lightening storms I’ve been in over here. Reaching Agnes Water it turns out I’m

Three days in Bundaberg is not the normal backpacker thing to do but I quite liked it anyway. Going from a bad start where my booked hostel stood me up at the bus station and