http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Taylorr/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Taylorr en-us Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:55:27 +0000 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:55:27 +0000 the whitsunday island trip was amazing. so many beautiful things. we did some snorkling and went to white haven beach which is 99 silica i think. i loved sailing. i met lots of great people and had alot of fun. i got back to airlir beach and went to the lagoon there for the next cuple days that i was there. the weather was beautiful i headed to megnetic island on friday for 2 nights. coinciden http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/blog-391209.html so fremantle was really nice small little town with a prison and brewery. i took the train to cottesloe beach a really nice beach all white sand and clear water. but it was pooring rain and miserable so i left to go back to my hostel in fremantle. after 2 nights in fremantle i went back to perth city and stayed in a hostel that was all chinese people but it was relaxing and i had the pool to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/blog-385141.html so i arrived in perth ok after being up for over 24 hours waiting for my plane i arrived in perth and slept for 18 hours. the last week i havent been doing much. walked around a bit but mostly laying by the pool since i finally have some constant good weather. when i left melbourne it was cold and rainy. tomorrow im going to fremantle which is a beach area in perth just south west. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/blog-381781.html so i didnt get the job at the coffee shop and there arent any jobs available in st kilda so i have been hanging around with my friends. for the first week in st kildamelbourne i hung out with the people in my room who were there a whole week with me. i went to the beach and just hung around. then they left and my friend lucy from the great ocean road trip came to melbourne from tasmania so i ha http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/blog-378939.html so the night before borossa valley a bunch of my friends were leaving the hostel and we drank alot which was not smart for me since i was going to the wine tour the next day. but the next day i had a bit of a head ache. there was alot of wine tasting we went to 4 winerys. we got back late me and the girls from my room had apple pie at 8 o clock and played cards. wed me and 2 new zealand girls http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/blog-374968.html so in airlie beach it was raining alot so basically everyone stayed in the hostel all day and drank at night for somethnig to do. a cuple of the days i went to the lagoon a giant pool that looks like a beach and swam since when you walk outside you get drenched anyways. so the first 2 nights were mostly girls in my room and we hung out and on the the last 2 nights were mostly guys. we just sat http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-371142.html so the last cuple of weeks i spent with janine and her kids riley and hayes. it was nice to have a room to myself. i spent christmas and new years there and then decided to go to fraser island but the weather wasnt good until the mid january. so i went for a weekend trip to fraser island on a self drive tour with 7 other people. we caught a ferry to fraser island and went to lake mackenzie first http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Hervey-Bay/blog-369463.html when i arrived i brisbane my hostel was very close to the bus stop. i checked in and went to go watch a movie. at this hostel i ran into a guy that i graduated school with trevor and his freind who i had met a cuple of times danny. after saying hello i went to bed. the following day i walked around brisbane trying to get someone to fix my camera which couldnt be fixed so i got a new one thank http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/blog-356521.html when i arrived in byron bay it was pretty late so i walked to my hostel and got settled in. i met a girl from vancouver who was in my room. i walked around a little bit and then went to bed. thursday i woke up and walked around all the stores and walked around the beach. afterwards i went to the pool with one of the girls from the room. i met some of the girls in my room 2 sisters named jess and http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/blog-356333.html i arrived in port mcquarie late at night it was incredably stormy. the bus was an hour late. the hostel i stayed at had a driver pick me up which i was glad because it was such bad weather and was close to 10 30pm. when i had woken the next morning it was not very nice out but was extremly humid because of the storm. i walked around town and saw all the shops. and walked around the harbour which http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/blog-350546.html so i went to my room to go out for dinner and met some people in my room. 3 guys from scottland and a girl from england her name is pamela and we got along very well. one of the scottish guys pamela and me went out for dinner at a thai restraunt. it was a bring your own alcohol like most of the restraunts so we brought some wine to the dinner. we talked for a long time there getting to know each http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/blog-350533.html after i booked into the hostel i walked around and did some shopping. in my hostel i met a girl named amy she is korean and she is trying to get a job in hospitalitytourism it was finally nice to have some company so we went out to dinner at a place called scuffy mcgruffs an irish pub. then walked around darling harbour. in my hostel was a a family a 10 year old girl her mom and grandma staying http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-347130.html i woke up and had the continental breakfast with a man that i had kept running into at my hotel he was here because his wife had died 3 years ago and he was going back to all the places they had gone together. he asked me if i wanted to eat with him and so i did. after breakfast i packed up and left to go the ferry to get to manly beach. i went on a big walk throught the botanical gardens and alon http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-345455.html so the plane ride was long but i slept most of the way. The woman next to me was from oregon and she was very nice we talked for quite some time. when we landed i got my luggage and headed for the train to go to kings cross which was so much more complicated then i had ever imagined fortunatly there was this guy named marc from chicago who had been living in australia for the last 2 years he ha http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Sydney/blog-344852.html talking to lianne..... filling some space. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Coquitlam/blog-339091.html