We have just returned from a 3 day / 2 night self drive trip around Kangaroo Island. Kangaroo Island is about 3 hours from Adelaide (by bus and ferry) and as the name suggests has lots of wildlife - mainly Kangaroos but there are also sea-lions, koalas, wallabies, penguins and pelicans. We started our trip on the island by picking up our car from Budget. We were served by a lady we later knicknamed 'Budget Bitch'. She was very unhelpful, patrionising and bascially acted like she didn't want us to rent a car from her!! Fair enough we didn't actually realise [View Full Entry]

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After our amazing few days in Alice we were finally refreshed and ready to get on tour again! We had also stocked up at K-Mart with with a few extra pieces of clothing as we had been told about how cold it was going to be camping at night. First stop was Kings Canyon - this is a massive canyon as the name suggests (we did this tour about a week ago and I'm struggling to remember what we actually did!! Keep meaning to write it down so I can do this blog). At Kings Canyon we did a walk for [View Full Entry]

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Apparently this part of the tour is called the boring part, as there is lots of driving to do. This meant that our tour guide was on a mission to make sure we had fun! Mainly through playing very loud music when we were driving, entertaining us and not sticking to anything on the itinerary but showing us better stuff (apparently). The music was a bit annoying, but everyone else seemed to enjoy it. He also played a few Australian songs including G'day G'day and one abourt a home in the country. Check out the hand movements on the video on [View Full Entry]

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We have booked a 14 day tour from Darwin to Adeliade. It is actually three tours together so I'll split this acording to how the tours work, so our first trip was a 3 day / 2 night trip from Darwin to Litchfield and Kakadu Park. The tour is with a company called Adventure Travel, and I must say sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice as I'm not exactly an Adventous Traveller! The tour started at 6.30 in the morning. Well, this meant we had to meet at the office at 6.30am, but we didn't get on the [View Full Entry]

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After our very brief trip to Cairns we flew to Darwin. Darwin is soooooooooo hot! Am def not used to this temperature anymore. It's was about 32 degrees but as the sun is so strong it kinda feels like your whole body is on fire. Not good and meant that we had to be sensible with lots of suntan lotion and hats whenever we left the hostel. Luckily everywhere has air-con so it was easy to sleep - although saying that we had a girl in our dorm who was working in the local Irish pub and didn't get back till [View Full Entry]

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We spent about 3 days in Cairns. Of course it rained for the first 2 days! So in true style we spent one of the rainy days in the shopping centre and watching Angels and Demons at the cinema (the rain was at the same time as Cheap Tuesday which was good!). We also meet up with a few of the guys from Fraser Island. Then we went White Water Rafting, which was the main reason for the time in Cairns. It was really good and there were only about 6 boats following each other so we didn't have to wait [View Full Entry]

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We have recently returned from a 3 day sailing trip round the whitsunday. We did the usual - 3 day / 2 night sailing on a lovely boat called Waltzing Matilda. There were 9 of us on the boat, us, 4 people from Ireland and 3 Canadian girls. We were upgraded to the private double, which was nice as it meant that we had a nice big double bed and a room to ourselves. The funny thing was that I was going to pay an extra $50 each for this when we booked the trip but Ian convinced me not to [View Full Entry]

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After our hectic time on Fraser we decided that we needed to relax for a few days so we decided to make our way to 1770. It's a really small town and is really relaxing. Of course it rained on our first day which was a bit annoying but am slowly getting used to it! The next day the sun came out, yippee! So we decided to try and learn to surf. It was the cheapest surfing we had seen and I must say you get what you pay for! Our 'coach' was this fat, old, typical Australian guy. He spent [View Full Entry]

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The rain finally stopped in Noosa so we decided it was about time for a bike ride. I was my usual demon on the bike! The good thing about Oz though is that you can ride on the pavement, so I didn't need to worry about being hit by a car! We rode to sunshine beach was is a much nicer place then Noosa. Then we went back to Noosa and rode around the spit, which was very nice too. It also helped us decide the location of where we could drink our last bottle of Hunter Valley wine. So that [View Full Entry]

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Hello, So we have been on the road for a week now. We left Sydney last Wednesday after about 3 days of cleaning the flat and packing all our stuff. I still can't believe how much stuff we seem to have picked up in Sydney and am still confused about how we will get it to New Zealand. Oh well, plenty of time till we have to worry about that. Thanks again Karen for taking all our crap and looking after it for the next three months! We flew from Sydney to Byron Bay last week. We stayed with a friend [View Full Entry]

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