Ryan Down Under

Travelling this chunk of Australia has been heaps of fun. It was relatively easy to do with only one road going north and south. The majority of travellers hit up the same area, such as Fraser Island and the Whitsundays, which makes striking up a conversation pretty easy.
The various costs sure added up though. I kept track of pretty much all my expenses and the grand total was AUD $1550. This included 250$ for the flights, 300$ for the package deal from Peter Pans, all transportation and nights out. This works out to 86$ per day, which I dont think is too bad a price when it includes room and board as well as nights out and $100+ day trips.
Overall I think money wise I did really well, though I didn't expect it to add up to that much.
I am totally okay with these expenses because I feel I saw a lot more of the Brisbane to Cairns coast than I originally planned or thought I ever would.
Also, I ended up taking 290 photos over the 18 days, and I still think a huge regret is not taking enough. Mostly of smaller things, such as the places we ended up sleeping the car at and stuff like that.
I think the downside of trips like this is really getting to know people well and becoming friends with them only to, eventually, say to each other 'well, I had fun, see you never!'. This was the case with a few people I hung out with for pretty much all day every day for a week straight and a few times afterwards, though I think we will keep in at least some contact.
The highlight of the trip for me was probably seeing Fraser Island and diving on the Great Barrier Reef. So many times I was left with nothing else to say except 'this is so flippin' cool'. It's almost like a drug that travellers are after, and it can come from any random place, and not from just seeing things, but finding yourself so far off course from what you originally thought out.
I think this is also the first time that I feel like I couldn't convey everything I wanted to about my trip in these past few blog posts. So much more small stuff went down, and I have heaps of other amazing photos that I guess a few of you will be lucky enough to see later when I'm home again.
In about 6 hours I leave for Central Australia where I'm pretty sure I will be blown away again by the vastness of this continent. 12 days will take us to Coober Pedy, Alice Springs, Uluru and Kata Tjuta and likely a bunch of random places in between.
Expect another post or two in 2 weeks time!