We just got to Hervey Bay (http://dkd.net/herveybay/) after travelling for 2 days. We left Surfers and drove to Brisbane which is like a smaller Sydney and spent the night. Today we woke up at 5:30am and drove to Noosa which was like a Beaverlodge by the ocean, it was so cute. We then went to Rainbow Beach and the name really describes it. The sand it literally like a rainbow - all different colours so very pretty. The water was a dirty color brown from the bad storms that we've been having at night - washes sea-weed up onto the shore. We then got to Harvey Bay and it was nothing at all what we had expected so we were kinda bummed earlier as we had planned to stay here for a month or so and work as much as we could.

We are leaving Tuesday morning to go to Fraser Island which is supposed to be breathtaking. Look it up on the internet! http://dkd.net/fraser/ or http://www.deh.gov.au/heritage/worldheritage/sites/fraser/. It is a huge white sand dune Island with bright blue water. We booked a 3 day, 2 night Fraser Island Safari where we go with a group of 10 people and camp and drive ourselves on this island. I guess it's totally roughing so we are pumped for that. It was only $150 and we couldn't go past this area without seeing it. We phoned a resort over there and left our phone number. We're going to see if we can get a job at the resort because apparently they are always looking for employees. We'll see what happens.

This tax thing is a real pain but I think we have it figured out now. We got royally screwed over by Indy with our final paycheque being only $330. We were expecting around $800 so it was really disappointing. We looked into it and it is correct and we will get about $300 back later plus the guy we talked to let us know about a loophole for next job when we fill out the tax info but for now I guess we do without that $500.

I will try to be frugal over the next while and we're making work a priority. I was super proud of us tonight because both Emma and I were considering catching a greyhound back to Surfers and just getting our own place. After a 'team meeting' we decided that we came to Australia to explore the country and that would just be going back to a comfortable situation so we decided not to. Good work Team Canada (that's what we call us).

Anyway Mom, I miss you more than you know. Kisses and Goodnight or good-day whenever you get this.