Today we had a lovely walk through Finch Hatton Gorge. Just beautiful! At one point there was a lovely rockpool where I had a swim and luckily it wasn't till afterwards I noticed the eels and stuff in there - though dad did tell me not to swim up the other end 'cause there was a snake in the water there. It was great having a swim 'cause it was a very hot day - 29 degrees when we had breakfast at 9.30 am. After our walk we headedd north again and we've ended up on a Motel in Airlie Beach. [View Full Entry]

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What a day! Op kl. 6:30 samtidig med Hans Henrik, hurtigt i tøjet og afsted til Broken River for at få et kig mere på Næbdyrene. Io havde allerede i aftes tilkendegivet, at hun ikke ville med, hvis vi kørte en morgentur, og vi blev ikke skuffede, 4 Næbdyr blev det også til i dag, og i tillæg en hel del fugle, dem var det mere gang i her fra morgenstunden. Vi kørte lidt længere ud ad grusvejen, men der var kun flotte udsigter. Hjem igen, en hurtig kop kaffe, vække Io op og spise morgenmad (Hans Henrik ik før os [View Full Entry]

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Vi var trætte i går efter en lang dag ude i solen og som til ved 7-tiden. Ved 5-tiden stod naboerne godt nok op, men de skulle jo også på arbejde. Morgenmad og så pakkede vi bilen og lidt over 8 var vi igen på farten i flot solskinsvejr og 20-25 gr. Vi havde beskuttet vat køre ad de mindre veje mellem Capella og minebyerne Dysart, Saraji Mine og Peak Downs Mine til ud til Peak Downs Highway. Fantastisk flot tur, specielt mellem Capella og Dysart, hvor vi kørte ca. 40 km på ret dårlig grusvej. Knas hamrende tørt alle steder, [View Full Entry]

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YEAY! We saw them! And four of them at that (maybe even 5). When we left Capella this morning our destination was Eungella National Park, famous for it's Platypus viewing opportunities. And true enough, as soon as we got down to the river (okay, maybe we had to wait for 5 mins) there the first one was. Just floating at the surface for maybe 30 seconds and whoop, off it goes again. They are just amazingly cute "little furballs with a bill in each end" as Hans said. Hehe, that's actually how it looks when you first see them because their [View Full Entry]

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Today we went straight to the farm Old Stoney were Lullu works for Joe and Estelle. We brought lunch with us from the Motel and as soon as we had been properly introduced to the pet Cockatoo we went off in two cars (me and dad with Lullu and Estelle, Hans with Joe) to see the farm, the cattle, the horses and all the other stuff around. It was o wonderful day and it'd be madness to try and tell all that happened, but I'll brief you on some of the main events. As we were driveing along nice and quietly [View Full Entry]

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En travl morgen, der skulle spises morgenmad, der skulle arrangeres så vi kunne blive i Capella en nat mere og vi skulle have skaffet nogle sandwich til frokost, foruden noget vand og så skulle vi først og fremmest være ude på 'Old Stony' inden 8. Vi nåede det hele og 2 minutter over 8 kørte vi op ad indkørslen til 'Old Stony'. Louise tog imod sammen med Joe og Estelle, vi fik lige set deres tamme kakadue og så blev vi ellers pakket i to biler og drog afsted for at se på deres egen 5000 acres og de 6000 acres [View Full Entry]

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So, just briefly a little more on what we did yesterday, after I wrote that entry. We headed a little more inland and ended up in Biloela. On the way we saw both Roos and Emus (this time wild ones for sure!) And it was a beautiful drive through the very different landscape, though we weren't really that far from the coast, maybe 120-150 km. Anyway, this morning we went inland for real leaving the coast almost at an angle heading straight west to begin with. We saw more Roos, more Emus (3) and we were almost melting away in the [View Full Entry]

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Så er vi kommet nord for Den sydlige Vendekreds, det skete ca. 10 km uden for Emereld. Skyggerne er også meget korte midt på dagen, har vi bemærket de sidste par dage. Vi har kørt 400 km i stort set en stor græsmark; meget savanneagtigt med spredte enkeltstående træer og en hel del kreaturer. Det er zebuokser man har på disse kanter, vi går ud fra at de europæiske racer ikke kan klare det varme og tørre klima. Der har også været et par bomuldsmarker så vidt vi kunne se, den ene kørte vi langs med i ca. 10 minutter, med [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone Just wanted to let you all know we've been trying desperately to find an internetcafe with LAN access for the labtop. We were up and down the streets of the town for three hours in 30 degrees c trying harder and harder, but we couldn't find one :( So news and pics will have to wait, except for this to tell you that we're all having a great time, and no one has been eaten by a croc yet ;) No worries their not here at all, they're further north, and besides we've been to Steve Irwin Land (Australia [View Full Entry]

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Vi er nu kommet væk fra kysten og er ca. 120 kom inde i landet, Det har været en meget spændende køretur gennem afvekslende landskaber, der mest har været megastore arealer med kvæg. Men der har også været steppe/savanna-agtige områder der har set meget tørre ud. Vi har passeret store Ananas-plantager (det er kun et par dage siden vi så de første) og der har været enkelte appelsinplantager. Floraen har ændret sig, de første kaktusser (Opuntia) er dukket op i løbet af idag og de er blevet hyppigere som dagen er skredet frem. Og så har vi set de første termit-boer, [View Full Entry]

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