| Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020 | ![]() |
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Manly. | 1 | |
No, your "old" ETA will still be valid. | 2 | |
Someone's going to bite my tail... | 3 | |
Hay | 4 | |
Gidday Barkery Guard Dog | 5 | |
If you have 3.5 weeks starting mid-April you can have a good time with good (beach and water) weather. I would probably get a Greyhound buspass (either distance or time based), and look at staying from this list of highlights:<BR><BR>Bellingen, Byron Bay, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast (Noosa), Hervey Bay (Fraser Island 2D tour), Agnes Water, Great Keppel Island, Airlie Beach (Whitsundays), Magnetic Island, Mission Beach, Port Douglas, Cape Tribulation (both in the Cairns region). Two nights each and every place is doable, but would be rushed, so you need to choose, using a guide book and based on your interests.<BR><BR>All these places have one or more hostels, and all will be rated on hostelz.com - standards can vary a lot. And you will have no trouble meeting other people doing roughly the same trip, and you will be very safe with the normal precautions that apply to alcohol, late hours, and dark isolated places. | 6 | |