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Episode: 3
Gympie to Surfers Paradise is the route for Programme three. A stop-over in Gympie is needed as the boys are exhausted from driving. They check themselves into the local campsite and while Michael has an early night Baz and Mark go on a rampage in Gympie. A crazy night of drinking and break dancing with the Gympie locals has Mark feeling a bit hung-over the next morning and Baz is no where to be found! Michael and Mark are obliged to retrieve him the following day. Picking up a dishevelled looking Baz, Michael makes the boys a campsite breakfast!! Waving goodbye to Gympie the boys travelled to Hervey Bay, taking a plane trip from there to Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world! This proves to be a spectacular adventure with the exception of Mark's attempts at karaoke in the Cool Dingo Nightclub! Not satisfied with the sea-life that Fraser had to offer the boys go looking for danger in the shape of sharks!! Stopping off at Underwater World in Mooloolaba, they dive with sharks, sting-rays and a whole lot more! But do the boys survive... As if diving sharks wasn't dangerous enough - the boys allow themselves to be enclosed in a large inflatable ball and thrown of the top of a hill in Brisbane! The new adventure and adrenaline rush sport of Zorbing! Moving onto the Gold Coast, better known as Surfers Paradise, more nudity ensues from the boys - firstly sporting gold hot pants to work with the Meter Maids in Surfers Paradise and then at the Indy Undie Ball. All for the love of money of course!! The boys work as meter 'men', sporting gold Speedos and aiding the metermaids to put coins in the city's parking meters!! Looking comfortable and at ease in their Speedos Baz, Michael and Mark decide to go shopping for underwear...why I hear you ask - well you have to wear underwear only for the event of the year 'The Indy Undie Ball'! Yes the boys do Ireland proud by wearing the poker-dotted trunks but with ties of course! They then spend a day at the races - the Indy race cars that is - fast cars and fast women what more can a man ask for!! Before leaving the beautiful golden state of Queensland the boys draw straws for who gets to live the high-life! Michael loses out and Mark and Baz sail through the sky before slamming back down to earth at the Brisbane Skydiving Centre!! Cost Summary Per Person:Cost Summary Per Person: Travel:Wicked CampersThe 3 amigos opt for the Johnny Bravo designed campervan giving it the name Katherine Thomas (cheeky boys)! Hundreds of designs to choose, from the Sopranos to The Toy Story! All campers include unlimited kilometres, table, bed (sleeps up to 3 adults), blankets, sheets, pillows, CD player, camp stools, cooking burner, sink, water container, ice box and all utensils! GympieGympie is an old gold mining town situated along the Bruce Highway on the Fraser Coast. You can find out about the mining industry in Gympie at the Gympie and District Historical and Mining Museum. Other attractions in Gympie include the interesting Woodworks Forestry and Timber Museum. Gympie also holds two great festivals. The Country Music Muster is held in August, while the Gold Rush Festival is held in October. If you want to experience Hicksville on the East Coast then don't miss out on Gympie, the folk are real genuine country! From Gympie you can turn off towards the coast and the pretty Rainbow Beach, from where you can visit popular Fraser Island or continue south along the beach to Noosa. The Cooloola Regional Development Bureau24 Bruce Highway, Lake Alford Information Centre, (PO Box 415) Gympie QLD 4570, Gympie Caravan ParkBruce & Von Noble Fraser IslandFraser really is a must-do if you're visiting the Queensland Coast! Seventy-Five Mile Beach would have to be the most amazing highway on the world - imagine 4WD-ing along a surf-pounded beach, stopping to admire the vibrant Coloured Sands, splash in the Champagne Pools, float down fast-flowing Eli Creek, climb Indian Head to spot sharks and rays, and even take your photo at the rusting Maheno Shipwreck... a World's Best Beach? Well Baz, Michael and Mark thought so! So, what's the best way to explore this World Heritage wonder? Take a guided tour - making your way through Fraser's steep and bumpy sand tracks can be quite a tricky business however it can be an exciting challenge in a hired 4WD! Stretching over 123 kilometres along the southern coast of Queensland, Fraser Island with an area of 184 000 hectares is the largest sand island in the world. The highest dunes on the island reach up to 240 metres above sea level. It is a strictly four-wheel-driving territory. Seventy-Five Mile Beach is an actual highway that runs up the surf side of the island. Four-wheel-drives share the highway with planes making joy flights! If you're into birds (the feathered kind that is!) and wildlife then Fraser's Rainforests has it all! Kingfisher Bay ResortKingfisher Bay Resort, Eurong Beach Resort, Fraser Explorer Tours and the Fraser Island Cool Dingo Tour provides a diverse range of tours and accommodation for families, couples, solo travelers and groups to experience the best of Fraser Island. Packages are available with transfers from Brisbane, Sunshine Coast or Hervey Bay. If your 18-35 and looking for fun and adventure then the Cool Dingo Tour is the ideal option as you'll get the max out of your Fraser adventure! Cool Dingo Tours are fully guided and all-inclusive, with comfy lodge accommodation, great buffet meals, awe-some 4WD tours as well as return catamaran transfers. You will meet people from all over the world as you recount your adventures and party in the Dingo Bar - watch out for the Karaoke! The tour includes accommodation, food and transport and you get to explore beautiful sights like:- Hervey BayHervey Bay is situated approximately 300 kilometres, 3œ hours drive, north of Brisbane. Hervey Bay City, boasting one of the fastest growing populations in Australia, is renowned for its Whale Watching and as the gateway to World Heritage-listed Fraser Island. There is a wide variation in accommodation on offer in Hervey Bay from campsites to luxury apartments. Here are a few options:- Shark DiveIf your looking for a bit of danger on your trip then its time for you to take an awesome dive with the resident sharks and rays at the Under Water World oceanarium with the Scuba World team. Feel your adrenalin rush as you come within centimetres of large grey nurse sharks, white tip reef sharks, shovel nosed and the sleek whaler sharks. You'll be face to face with blotched fantail rays, coach whip rays, spangled red emperors, sweet lip, snapper, bream, remoras, wobbegongs and much more! Don't worry you get a scuba lesson first! For more information on shark diving contact: Scuba World For more information on Underwater World: ZorbingWhat is Zorbing I hear you ask? - Well a Zorb® is a BIG, fat, 3 œ metre huge inflatable ball, round and bouncy, you jump inside it, it rolls and so do you. Excited - you should be as the ride begins with a drive to the top of Zorb® Park hill, then enter the Zorb® and be launched down the hill! There are two different ways to ride in a Zorb®, one involves getting wet and one doesn't, simple!! Water in the hydro Zorb®s is to make the surface slippery so you slide rather than rotate with the Zorb®. The Harness experience is designed as a more extreme ride as you are rotating every 10 metres. For more information on Zorbing contact: Zorb Gold Coast, Brisbane Surfers ParadiseSurfers Paradise is Queensland's party capital that plays 24 hours a day 7 days a week!! There is something on every night of the week from beach cinema to beach markets. The excitement doesn't end when the sun goes down. With more than 31 nightclubs bars and pubs open late each night, and late night shopping seven days a week, you can burn the candle at both ends. For a romantic twist, view the lights of the Gold Coast from the top of the world's tallest residential tower, Q1 or soak up the night-time atmosphere with a horse-drawn carriage ride through Surfers Paradise. High rised apartments on beachfront is the way to holiday here and is reasonably cheap too! Or unless you have a bit of cash to flaunt you could always booked yourself into the Versace Hotel!! And it really is where the beautiful people go - bronzed surfers and girls in gold lamé bikinis on the beach - people watching is a favourite pass-time in Surfers Paradise! Lexmark Indy 300Highlight of the year in Surfers Paradise is the Lexmark Indy 300 race car festival. It's a race, a party, an eyeful and an earful. Champ Cars scorching through bends and screaming down the straights. The earth shaking thunder of Australia's V8 Supercars laying it all on the line. And ninety-six hours of on and off track entertainment with events like the Barter card's Miss Indy Competition (more girls in bikinis!!), the Indy Undie Party (yes that's right you have to wear 'underwear only' to get in, held in Billy's Beach House!!) and CAPA Stunt team! The event is held in October each year - for more information contact: MetermaidsMetermaids are icons of Surfers Paradise!! Introduced in 1965 by Bernie Elsey, he decided to get a group of girls together, dress them in gold lame bikinis and get them to put money in parking meters for the public! The tradition has continued and is now run by ex-metermaid Roberta Aitchison. During the Indy Car races you'll see the Metermaids in action around Surfers Paradise! For more information on the Metermaids contact: Sky DiveA road trip in Australia isn't complete until you have done a Skydive - yep free falling baby!! Recommended highly by Baz and Mark (apparently even better than sex!) If you like the idea of jumping out of an aeroplane at 12,500ft, walking on clouds, or gliding over the gold coloured coast of Brisbane then be sure to include a skydive on your trip. Be sure to book in advanced and save the pennies as it ain't cheap! For more information on Skydiving contact:
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