Where to Begin! Agnes Water/1770 It's been a long time since my last entry, sorry guys. A catch up is indeed required!! Right here goes! On the 10th July we caught the greyhound bus to the town of 1770/Agnes Water. The weather was great whilst we were there. we stayed for 2 nights at a hostel named 'Cool Bananas' and it was indeed really cool!I'd recommebnd it to anyone travelling there. The staff were great the dorms nice and spacious and clean and they do food for $5 every night and it was great food. The hostel is a 5 [View Full Entry]

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Where to Begin!!! Well it has been a very long time since my last entry so I shall try to put things into some sort of logical order by doing this entry in sections!!! Ipswich Well what a saga Ipswich was!! Ipswich is a suburb of Brisbane and is where I went to do my solo skydiving training (AFF Training) with Brisbane Skydiving Centre, which is owned and operated by Brian Scoffell along with all his staff, 'Spready', 'Kiwi', 'Belg', Clayton and Anna to name but a few! The course was intended to be 9 stages with a solo jump [View Full Entry]

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Brisbane So we arrived in Brisbane a few nights ago now on the 17th june. Once again we all travelled together (Sarah, Vanessa, Myrthe and Katie & I). Brisbane is ok. It's a very large city with a tidal river running through it dividing the city in half. But it's still just a city like any other. We all booked into Brisbane City Backpackers as it said the internet was free!! I wish we hadn't it makes Byron Bay Backpackers Inn seem tranquil!!! This hostel is a real party hostel!! Our room is adjacent to the 'in hostel' pub!!! The [View Full Entry]

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Surfers Paradise Well we all travelled on the greyhound bus together (Katie & I, Sarah, Vanessa and Myrthe) and arrived at Trekkers backpacker hostel in the afternoon on the 15th June. The weather was stunningly hot and sunny yet my first impression of Surfers was that it was ugly. High rise buildings absolutely everywhere you look. The beach was lovely but spoilt by the high rises. We all booked into a dorm and agreed to stay only 2 nights as we all thought it looked crap, and we were right! That first day we just walked back into town, which [View Full Entry]

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Byron Bay- So Chilled Out! Wow Byron Bay what a place!! Im writing this in retrospect as I have got a bit behind with the blog!! We spent a week in Byron Bay and to be honest it was one of the most chilled out weeks of my life so there is not much to write about!!!! For the first couple of days it rained hard and non-stop!!! We just hung around the hostel or local pubs and shops for those two days!! We stayed at the Backpackers Inn. It was awesome for the private beach access but very very [View Full Entry]

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Sunshine at last! We got to Port Mac on 5/06/08 and I went fishing and Katie sat and read as shes not a reel fan of fishing, get it? 'Reel', like that did ya? That's one of mine! SO anyway I didn't catch anything that day. The next day the sun was shining bright and it was about 21 degrees celcius so we took a leisurely stroll to the Koala hospital via a boardwalk which goes through the local wildlife reserve. We saw hundreds of different birds; Herons, cockatoos, storks and parrots. The best thing was the trees were full [View Full Entry]

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We Made It! We made it down under! We flew into Sydney on the afternoon of the 30/05/08 and it was beautiful sunshine and 21 degree heat. Shame that hasn't lasted! Let's see that afternoon we just checked into the Glebe YHA hostel and got the bus back into town and wandered around circular quay for a few hours doing the usual touristy stuff, like photos of the bridge and the opera house. After that we went through the quayside parks trying to follow these miraculously colourful little parrots! They were so fast it was difficult to follow them, let [View Full Entry]

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Christchurch Well its been a while since my last entry so I shall set to filling you all in on what we've done. We actually spent a couple of nights in Nelson and walked to the centre of New Zealand. Then we spent our last 3 days in NZ with some friends in Christchurch. I hadn't seen Stacy for a very long time, over a decade in fact!! Stacy and her husband J very kindly let us stay with them in their home. We didn't actually get up to much whilst we were there in the way of touristy things [View Full Entry]

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What a great place! Well allot has happened since the Fox Glacier blog, so I shall fill you all in. Hokitika As I mentioned on the last entry we stayed one night in Hokitika. It was a funny place, like a ghost town. We met only two other backpackers. The weather was gorgeous and the beach lovely. We spent the evening there just walking along the beach looking for Pounamu (greenstone) and found allot! Obviously it didn't look like the stuff in the shops as that is all polished and carved, but it was still a beautiful green colour nonetheless. [View Full Entry]

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The Nimble Fox Well we arrived in the tiny village of Fox Glacier. It really is tiny, the population was like less than 1000! So the only thing we could do there was literally either walk the glacier or go to the pub, so we did both! We arrived there 2 nights ago and Katie being extremely well organised had booked our walk when we were in Queenstown, which is good cos the tour was full!! What a day though. We got up at a reasonable hour, around 0800 and were all checked in and boot and crampon fitted by [View Full Entry]

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