After a bizarre detour of a flight to Adelaide I met up with Tony. He was staying with relatives in a town 30mins out of Adelaide called Gawler. John, Sheila and Sam the dog were all very kind and welcomed me to there home. It has been a long time since I have been in a homely environment so I was very relaxed and mellow. I didn't have drawbacks that come with staying in a hostel dorm with 4-8 other people in the room, that's why I ended up sleeping till midday for the whole 5 days I was there!! We [View Full Entry]

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The tenth day of our road trip was one of the most random nights when we got chatting to a tour guide at a petrol station. His group was really boring so he invited us to stay at the farm they were staying at that night and let us have some of their dinner!! So obviously we agreed and me, Laura, the tour guide and one of the blokes from the farm stayed up drinking wine till about 1. We also had the opportunity to hold a joey. We mentioned to Glenn (tour guide) that we were going to Kalbarri the [View Full Entry]

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We are adapting well to the hippy lifestyle where we sleep in our van which is quite comfy and we have a little gas cylinder to cook our food on and a little sink to wash up. We are not going to always stay at caravan parks as it costs money so we'll stay at campsites instead. But that means we have to make the most of washing in rivers or even better the sea. We have decided to not wash our hair throughout our trip and so far it's not looking bad.... On our fourth day after some more rock [View Full Entry]

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We arrived at the Wicked van depo in suspense to what design would be on our van. Having only seen an Elton John van sitting out the front (don't mind him but the picture was dodgy) we were a little disheartened, however, we were then led out to the back where our little "Sheila" was waiting for us!!! The design on the van was neither Elvis nor Spongebob, it was a passive choice of "Wicked" written on eitherside and the quote on the of "It's only kinky the first time" on the back :) Just perfet for us... Having not properly [View Full Entry]

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After a 13 hour night journey on the Greyhound bus we arrived in Broome, so be it if we are 2 weeks behind schedule, killed a national symbol and done some fruit picking during this time... We have now officially made it to the West Coast!! We had the choice of staying in the town or on the beach. The toss of a coin predicted it was the beach, so Cable Beach backpackers it was. We were anxious to check out the beach but were in need of a snooze, we didn't realise how tierd we were cos we ended up [View Full Entry]

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After having faith brought us to Kununurra, a small farming town, we thought it was only right to try out some harvest work. Laura is trying to extend her year work visa to 2 years by doing 3 months of agricultural work and I would like to keep my options open so I thought I would try extending my visa too, plus I need the money so how hard can it be? We were told pumkin and melon picking was hard so we opted to work on a corn farm instead. It was a 5.30am start to 4.00pm finish with one [View Full Entry]

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Our road trip was cut short and there is a long story to it... so here it goes... Saturday morning we finally left Darwin, 2 hours behind schedule but so excited about what lay before us. Our campervan was sooo cool!! It slept 4 people but there was only two of us so we had lots of space. We had stocked up on food and even had two mascots with us, Garfield and Willieroo the rabbit. I drove first until we got to Katherine. We bought a cd to keep us going "Songs for my rig", possibly the most awful trailor [View Full Entry]

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What happens when you work, play and drink too hard? a) you have alot of good memories b) you're exhausted c) you're not short of cash cos you get men to buy you drinks d) all of the above With no hesitation I would tick option (d) for Darwin!!! I feel like I'm living a second teenhood! No one actually believes my age anyway so I'm just going to make the most of it!!! However saying that my active lifestyle has got the better of me and I am now taking a course of injections (in my bottom!) to cure my [View Full Entry]

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How does a tour bus of 6 girls sound? Well, you would think you would never hear a man complaining but we had our bus driver getting that way!! So I set out on another 3,5 day camping trip from Alice Springs upto Darwin together with Heli a Finnish girl I met in Adelaide and have been travelling together since, the pleasantly disturbed blonde Dutch girl Mer, the upmost entertaining young Laura from the UK, the crazy Ozie chick Cyndy and the outcast Lara from Canada. We visited many places including Wycliffe Well known for the most Alien sightings in Australia, [View Full Entry]

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After my 19 hour train journey from Adelaide I arrived in the small town of Alice Springs. Alice Springs once known as just a simple telegraph station set up to communicate with England is now Australia's key town providing tourists a taste of the outback. Having heard various stories, including the recent movies Wolf Creek and Hostel (have not seen either film and choose not to till I get home) I decided will not put me off from camping in the bush. Therefore, I booked on a 3,5 day camping trip visiting the sights of Kings Canyon, Kata Tjuta and Uluru. [View Full Entry]

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