A Guide to Magnetic Island: Australia’s Best Kept Secret & Most Underrated East Coast Stop I am SO excited to write this post. I feel like I’ve been let in on Australia’s best kept secret and I can’t wait to share it with you. You’ve probably heard of Australia’s Fraser Island and Whitsunday Islands. They’re two of the most popular stops for travelers along the East Coast. But I was recently lucky enough to have spent 2 nights on an island that completely stole my heart and I

Watching the New Year’s Eve fireworks in Sydney is a major travel goal for so many people, myself included!! This year I was lucky enough to take part in the festivities and it was totally worth the hype!! We grabbed an Uber and met my family at their Darlinghurst Airbnb. Being NYE, Sydney was crazy and we were so lost as to where we should watch the fireworks. To access one of the Sydney city recommended spots you have to line up (or even camp out!) hours and hours in advanc

A quick video of some of the awesome hikes around Sydney I did before I started the road trip up the East Coast of Australia. First bit is from the Coogee to Bondi coastal path in Sydney and the second is from The Blue Mountains hike about a 2 hour train ride from the city. Such beautiful places! Click here to read the full post about the Blue Mountains. #explore #BLUEMOUNTAINS #featured #backpackers #oz #BACKPACKING #wanderlust #NEWSOUTHWALES #travel #HIKING #COOGEEBEACH #HI

Somehow we’ve been on the road for two weeks now and it has both felt like two years and two seconds. Funny how that happens. We’ve done absolutely loads in the last two weeks and now we’ve got a few days in Sydney to just chill out before we have another wild 16 days ahead of us. I had previously written we’d be doing the east coast tour as far as Noosa but now it looks like we’ll be doing Fraser Island as well (no complaints over here!!) We’ve said goodbye to some of the am

This week has been so crazy and packed with fun activities I haven’t had a chance to write so here’s an update on how the last week has gone. In a word, AMAZING!!! Seriously, Ultimate has been such a great decision I am SO glad we decided to do it and I literally don’t know what we would have done if we hadn’t done this program (probably turned around and come home to be honest). If anyone out there is reading this thinking about doing a Working Holiday definitely definitely