early aus plans

Me and my girlfriend will be travelling before settling down, leaving in feb 2010 (early i know) but i need a budget to work to! p.s we'll be staying in hostels. and using greyhound to make way down east coast.
so heres the plan,

fly from UK to
Thailand 10 days onto ...

Sydney - spend about 4/5 days seeing the sights, then a bus tour http://www.adventuretours.com.au/3-day-sydney-to-melbourne-tour/ making our way to... takes 3 days
Melbourne - about 3 days
Melbourne to adelaide on a 3 day tour seeing great ocean road etc
adelaide 3-4 days includin 2 at kangaroo island
fly to Alice springs and spend about 3-4 days there, see uluru/ayers rock etc.
then fly to cairns
spend about 4/5 days in cairns - barrier reef and cape tribulation

making way down east coast by greyhound buses stopping at....

townsville 3 days - magnetic island
Airlie Beach - 3 days - see whitsundays islands
bundaberg 1/2 days - see turtles on mon repos beach
Rainbow beach 3 days - fraser island
Brisbane 3 days - Moreton island trip
Surfers paridise 5 days - australia zoo, surfing lessons, etc
Byron Bay 2 days
coffs harbour 1 day
back to Sydney

any advice? where to save time, places to skip, places to add, must see and do's? etc

cheers

tbh a budget can be done in MS excel...?

You can get hostel prices, bus prices, tour prices, flight prices on the net, the rest is food and extra, just write it all down in excel, week by week and see what you come up with.. You can do it yourself better than anyone as you know exactly what your doing...

Flight from Uk to Sydney $600
Five days in sydney at $18 per night dorm of 8
Food $10 per day
Adventure tour Sydney to Cairns $500 ?

Blue mountains in Sydney are quite cool
Rafting down the Tully in Cairns is worth doing
Walking around about lake Placid in Cairns is worth doing

etc...

[ Edit: Edited on Dec 4, 2008, at 2:28 AM by andy11 ]