Current Mood: Ready for the Sunshine! What to say… after a chilled Friday night of playing a few tunes that I have not mastered at all we set out early to the Stanford for a Saturday morning pick up. A good mob of us met for our bus ride to the ferry for the 24th birthday of Whitney and Hamish. The gang consisted of two kiwis one of who were Mauri.. Brendon and Ria, the south African twins, two Yorkshire lasses a taff one ozzy and myself. You can imagine the diversity of accents. Half of the time I didn’t know [View Full Entry]

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Current Mood: Ready for work Ok so Melbourne was a blast.. the drinks were finally killing me and my decision to leave was certain. Saying goodbye to Lewy and a few others myself and Anne jumped a shuttle bus to the airport where she would be heading to New Zealand and myself to see my cousin Chris in Perth. I couldn’t wait to take a little bit of rest from my week of binge drinking. So the airport was dead quiet for a Friday night like normally there are people everywhere. Looking for the most comfortable bench Anne and I set [View Full Entry]

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Current Mood: Time for a weeks rest... Yeah!! Melbourne Ok… I heard so much about this city. Working in Darwin the way I did I got to meet Rob who constantly bigged up his home town. The guys from Laos told me to make sure I got down there as it was the best city in OZ and many other Australians I’ve met on route and Europeans for that matter all say you have to See Melbourne. As explained earlier in the blog listings I spent my last Day with the family and after a great day got dropped to St [View Full Entry]

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Current Mood: I'm Running the Gauntlet! Waking up in that Backpackers in Brisbane wasn’t the best. It was full of Chinese guys who love to chat and play with there gadgets etc etc ALL NIGHT LONG. The room was boiling and after spending the night with Cacca I had a slight hangover. Myself and kim were sharing a bed and with the obscene heat in the room I couldn’t wait to get out of there. We both got up pretty early to get me to the airport. So saying my see you laters to Kim I jumped the train to the [View Full Entry]

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Current Mood: Too much fun has been had! Mission Beach to Hervey Bay The Bags were packed and myself and Kim were on our free bus to Tully where we would get in a plane and get the rush of my life! Saying goodbye to the guys and see you at 6 to Lewy and Anne who were following on the greyhound bus we got on the road and on our way! Arriving in Tully the Day was to begin. The deal was you would leave all of you bags on the bus that would continue to Mission Beach for you [View Full Entry]

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Current mood: Relaxed.... My arse!! Portdouglas to Innesfail Well… Waking after the night out in Cairnes was a weird feeling! Did I say Waking… erm I actually never went to sleep. We left the woolshed at around 5am and walking down through the town we came across the Lagoon. Basically In cairns you cant really swim in the ocean to my knowledge, so in its place is a monster out door communual pool accessible to all and his dogs! Apparently after many attempts at getting near the water we were persistently told if we were to enter the pool before 6am [View Full Entry]

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Current Mood: Excited.. im a Backpacker again! On route to The Beginning of my East Coast Adventures. Current mood: Excited The Plans oooooooh the plans! What to do when I get there?? Where to go, what to see?? I think before that we just better concentrate on the Nomad as from prior stories you all know that the trusty van has never made a single Camping trip without spitting her dummy out. So after a great few days seeing the guys to say goodbye before our departure we woke up at unit 2/125 Smith street Darwin for our final morning with [View Full Entry]

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Current mood: Time to hit the road... Excited!! It’s been a while so where should I begin…. OOOoooh I know!! I’m finally Off that Island and the end to Darwin is approaching!!! Ok so the last time I left you I think it was something to do with a Cricket match that was supposed to be an on going thing for Maxwell Camp and the Tiwi lads!! In True Maxwell or could it be Tiwi Tradition the games never came about so it turned out to be a one off. The local boys on Melville island pulled out as they couldn’t [View Full Entry]

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Current mood: Counting down the days and shifts!! Well well well… Coming back to work from a great weeks drinking and Camping wasn’t so bad after all! In fact it was more like a Holiday. We rocked up a day late due to a designated day off for the Darwin Cup that I said we missed out on. No problem. So at 7.30am, I’m in the office to find that the week will consist of the usual really….. Not to much walking and plenty of digging. So that we did. As the week went by myself and Brett got to go [View Full Entry]

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Current Mood: Cant wait until this is my life for four months of the West Coast. Right then… After getting back home from Dropping Hilke to the airport our original plans of heading off straight away turned out to be different as per usual!! We both crashed out at home and didn’t get up until 11!! Well I didn’t anyway!! I got up to find Brett had been a busy bee running around the house (with his feather duster hahaha kidding) Packing up the essentials for a trip to Daly Waters to see a mate of his!! Man its going to [View Full Entry]

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