http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Rebecca-Coulson/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Rebecca Coulson en-us Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:00:24 +0000 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:00:24 +0000 So its my last full day in oz. Which is increidbly sad. Am currently trying to give myself a tummy ache so that i wont miss oz right away as its yummy food will have given me a tummy ache. Currently i am too full to eat any more tim tams or drink any more solo at this point in time. and i dont even have a tummy ache yet SO since my last post i have surfed with dolphins. which is pretty cool. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-422971.html Hey all Sorry about the time gap. Things seem to keep popping up or shutting down in my laptops case. Fingers crossed that this post manages to make it onto the net. SO bad news. The ocean ate my camera. and i did cry. In fact since the 4th which is the fateful day when a little bit of me died inside i keep having issues keeping track of my stuff. NIck and i left Wollongong on the 6th. He h http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Byron-Bay/blog-419605.html Hey all sorry about the gaps from posts. I've been pretty busy and no where near computers with internet. which is pretty much becoming my lifes story. I ended up going back to queenstown getting a haircut and getting some other errands done. I left from the Dunedin the next day which is the most Scottish city in all NZ if anyone was wondering. Because i was on a timeline for the first time http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Wollongong/blog-415301.html So i ended up going to see Terminator Salvation as it was the first thing about to play when i got the the cinema. I will say nothing other then it was great and i cant wait for its dvd release. and i cried but i guess that last bit isnt really much of a surprise to most. I also ended up watching the simpsons movie that night and cant help but wonder WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PIGYesterda http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Te-Anau/blog-409577.html SO i survived the higest bungy jump in NZ. Its called Nevis and is a 134 m plummit. I arrived at the spot in a small van full of people at probably 10am. Lucky me i got to 'test it out' to make sure it was 'safe for everyone else.' Aka i got to go first. Which i was totally fine with until i got onto the friggin small platform looked over the edge and saw just how high i was. The difference http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-408913.html Hey all am currently in the surprisingly small town of Queenstown. Its much more like a little town or city than the adreline capital of the world i saw a sign saying that today as i walked around. Since i last posted I've been to the city of Greymouth on the way saw the Pancake rocks which are a geoglogic formation of i think igneous rocks which have been pressed together over time and for http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Queenstown/blog-407997.html hey all After leaving kaikoura we headed up to a little town called Picton. On the way there we stopped at a vineyard called Montana's which i guess exports a lot of wine to the Uk and area as everyone on the bus it was pretty much an irish fest got very excited. Learned quite a bit about wine there and once again that i'm not a very big fan of red wine got fairly happy and then we all pile http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Franz-Josef/blog-406337.html Hey all Just wanted to let everyone know that i managed to make it down under alright. My 14 hour plane ride to Sydney from San Fran was pretty long especially because i was in the economy section with all the little babies. Who liked to cry. I landed in Sydney at about 615 am local time i dont know what that is back home just that i was reallly tired got through customs with my brothers tw http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-395541.html Hey all sorry about the delay. its been a little more then a week since my last post but hopefully no one really noticed that....Anywho to bring everyone up to dateLast sunday May 24 i ended up breaking down and buying uggs. Its friggin cold here If you check out a map you'll see that NZ is located fairly close to Antartica so i feel justified and that i havent utterly failed at the Can http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Picton/blog-403704.html So surprise I'm now over in NZWhen my mom called me yesterday morning at about 930 am local time to chat she asked me what i had planned for my day and i honestly told her that i had absolutely no idea. Which was the honest truth. i was mucking around the the net with ideas of still going down to tasmania despite the ferry and websites being unagreeable. I looked on jetstar which is an ai http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/South-Island/Christchurch/blog-401360.html Hey all two posts in two days WOOOOSo i did end up going to Wicked the other night and it was better then expectation I got there an hour or so early to get mt ticket and have a look around before the show. It turns out that i didnt need to be there that early but i ended up meeting some pretty interesting people who were also seeing the show. There was a motherdaughter pair who were ther http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/St-Kilda/blog-400739.html Hey all me again As promised not as large of a gap between posts. So i've been in Melbourne visiting my friend Lauren Mendis for three days and a bit now. I caught a train on friday night and ended up being in the last car car G which was pretty much unoccupied. At the start of the trip there were three of us in it. An older Aussie lady myself and a mid20s British guy. The british dude S http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/St-Kilda/blog-400149.html Hey all I know its been awhile since my last post and i still dont have any pics uploaded. Sorry but think of it as good things come to those who wait ok so I've been to and from wollongong which is where my big brother Nick goes to uni. I've pretty much fallen in love with the place and am considering doing a sem exchange or maybe even a full year there. The people were so great and it w http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Wollongong/blog-399095.html So i did end up going to Wild life World and the Aquarium today which happen to be side by side conveniently enough. I had changed my mind a few times walking down there because one of my roomies said that if you had been to the Vancouver aquarium which i'm now a seasons pass holder to then you would be let down. So i was considering going to a place called Oceanworld in manly and mayb http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-396110.html So its day three here in lovely Sydney and i think i might be over jet lag or getting pretty close to it. I woke up at 7am and its almost 6pm now and i'm not ready to take a noise dive due to exhaustion. YAYI met my 3rd roomie today. Shes from Germany and her name is Chris. She seemed really relieved to have someone to talk to when she first arrived both our other roomies were hung over fro http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-395802.html