North Stradbroke Island, Australia

... I hop on my ferry, flashing the student card gets me a four dollar discount (cha ching!!). It takes 20 minutes to get to stradbroke and from there you take another bus which dropped me at Manta Lodge. When I finally check in, I head up to my allotted room ...

... up to Point Lookout, its about a 3km walk to get to the furthest tip, so I stock up on water and head up. The island is really beautiful with plenty of sandy beaches and greenery that just stretch forever, so its a pretty walk. The maps here are really ...

... they cancel the dive for an hour until the tide settles. One girl im buddied with is gutted as she has to catch a ferry off the island later and cannot stay to dive. Its all the fault of a couple of american tourists who turned up late making us miss the ' ...

Spent the day with Kenny and Abi at North Stradbrooke Island, or Straddie as the locals call it. You have to catch a ferry across which was really nice, then we found a beach and apart from a few paddles and a picnic, just vegged on the ...