Roadtrip in our Spaceship

Brisbane has been a blast. We spent 6 days total in Brisbane with our good Aussie friends, Andrew, Matt and Rohan. They showed us around and we did some fun stuff. Matt even made it on the 5 O'clock news in Brisbane. We were down by the water front laying on the beach with the rest of the people when the news van pulled up. It happened to be one of the hottest winter days they had seen in years so they were interviewing people about it. He was sporting his red beard and sweet farmers tan. We hired a van to come up north and found it would be cheaper than flying to just keep it for an extra week and make the drive round trip. So here we are sitting out front of McDonalds in the middle of our road trip. The van that we hired is called a "spaceship" van. It's got everything from a double bed to stoves and a fridge. We hooked up with two other girls (see attached picture) that were wanting to make the trip north so we figured it would save some money by vanpooling. We have been on the road 4 days now and have made it at least 2/3 of the way to Cairns. The one girl, Laura, is from Germany. She is out for about 4 months on her vacation. The other girl is only out for a month from the UK. Her name is Deb. There is some differences when it comes to us vs. them. We'll touch on some of them later on. The trip has been super fun and interesting at the same time. We have been sleeping in our hammocks every night. I must say, this outback comes alive after the sun goes down. You will be sleeping and get woken up by some random animal running under you. Or if you are Matt, it could be a giant bug crawling on your face durning the night. My favorite is being woken up by something and then shinning the light in to the tree next to me and having a possum staring you in the face about 8 feet away, then crawling down the tree and up the to foot of my hammock. We have been using the Aussie alarm clock to get up in the morning. This consists of about 50 different species of birds all screaming at the same time for about an hour straight. We have been through the towns of Noosa, Bundaberg, Mackay, Rockhampton and have landed here in Airlie Beach at the Whitsundays. The Whitsundays are probably some of the most famous and beautiful sets of Aussie Islands. There are 72 different islands that make up the Whitsundays. They want a small fortune to do day trips out to them so we are saving ourselves for the Great Barrier Reef when we get up north. If you ask Matts belly, it would tell you that today the weather was pretty warm. It's only pink though and hasn't made it to the being in pain stage. It has been a nice stay here and we will be heading north again tomorrow. We will try our best to upload photos when we get the chance. The net is a bit slow when McDonalds offers free wifi. It did get us to purchase some ice creams so I guess it's good work to them in the sales department. We also love to see comments so hook us up.. The three pics that we did get to work are just random animals we have seen along the way...