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Chantal Kerr-Sheppard Joined: January 14th 2009
Logged in: June 23rd 2009
Logged in: June 23rd 2009
Travel Blog Posts
AUCKLAND - every item of clothing on...no shoes but flip flop and its 1'C outside.... THE CAMPER VANS 2 weeks...automatics...find yourself reaching for the gear stick constantly either that or Caz's leg - whoops. There were a couple of trips to the old McDonalds drive through we must admit but it has to be doen right?! Most of the time we camped on the roadside/picnis sites where we could find them and endured soem very freezing nights and many adventure toilets times, cold bums and washing our pots and pans in publice toilets....unacceptable? One night we did park outside a rugby club in the vain hope that some very fine looking men would wake us up in the morning however that was not the case what we were awoken by was 10ye old boys and their ... read more
17th -20th May Caz and I attempt to get breakfast from woolworths shut....as fittie Mcfit informs us walking back from the closed store. OOOoo he is pretty but we discover too young, not legally morally. So aquire food from elsewhere and look forward to our separate jopurneys of the day ...Jonny and Katie off to Cairns at 11...Zoe and Phil not till the late afternoon and Cazna dmyself well we're not goig to Cairns at all...we're makig a sort detour for a couple of hours to innisfail and the crocodile farm! so 12pm we arrive in what coudl easily mistaken fort he deep south of the usa ...its's all bit strage really. soooo...to the Johnstone River Corcodile Farm......awkward written all over it...lady at counter takes our money and leaves us to wander and wander we do....we ... read more
15th-16th may i wake up in a stress my new camera has ceased to work...just my luck and then the internet stole my money and then my online banking broke too ! I will not be an electrician when I grow up thats for sure! 9.50am bus which we have to runf or backpacks and wall to get the ferry back over to townsville to get the coahc to Mission beach. Meet ZOe and Phil at coach station ....all aboard for the 4 hour journey. Coach time rubbish western film but we do have sweets and cracker so not all is bad as well as the view out of the window being stunning as usual. 3pm arrive in what appears to be a sleepy place Wongaling Beach or something to that effect. Absolute Backpackers is where ... read more
12th-14th Arrive early in the evening Phil and Zoe already here somewhere. Find a hostel that resembles a block of flats somewhere in leamington and quite rowdy too...fisrt things first a shower.....much needed too! Then sesh clothes straight on and out to a lovely wine bar to meet up with the parents ...Phil ZOe. Nice and cheap wine bar Zoe already on it withabottle of wine down so we join them for a couple more before locating the nearest pumping club Bank. Bit of dance music and R&B for Zoe perfect . even more perfect is the price sof thedrinks $4 for a double vodka mixer....and its gets better the cute asian bar man takes liking for me and as the night goes on my drinks go from $3 to $2 to free.....ooo yeh...it's because I'm ... read more
8th-12th May So I've lost my shoes again great...it has to be the 5th pair at least ...oh well no one needs shoes when you're going on a sailing trip in the next couple of days.Arrive early in the morning looking particularly haggish after no shower on Fraser island and the over night bus trip adding to the mess that is my face. And to add to all this there was a huge dead spider in my toilet and a snake hanging it's tail over the edge of the wall...consequently I never went and ran away screaming like wel a girl of course. Find Magnums hostel convenient club attatched to the side of it....good times find our dorm room....and a naked man swinging form the beams of the balcony...naked dave. Seem like a nice boy despite ... read more
4th-7th May 2009 Bus to Hervey bay the stop off before venturing to the world's largest sand island!! Get to Hervey Bay mid afternoon large spaced out town with not a lot going on as far as we could see. 4km walk to attend safety briefing about ragging a Landrover Defender about on sand for 3 days...and something about only having 2 drivers insured...Jonny and Phil then..although we are cleary going to have a cheeky go. Oh and some warnings about the dangers of dingos. ...like don't hang rubbish in trees..whoops! We endure the talk and obviously pay strict attention to the instructions but by the end are eager to drive the thing sooooo...we have a little word and convince the company to let us have the landrover tonight...get in! So supermarket and drive thorugh liquor ... read more
2nd -3rd May Zoe and Phil left on early bus as keen to get to Noosa to visit Australia Zoo...we take it easy haven't booked a bus yet and wonder into the bus station about 10 ish only to find Zoe and Phil overslept and not only missed their first bus but the sexond to and are now getting the 10.15 ....conveniently for us 4 people have just cancelled their booking on the 10.15 to Noosa so we're all on the same bus. Takes a while no dvd on the bus :( and we forgot breakfast ..hard journey! We're off to Noosa nice seadise town with some funky vbars and restaurants...or so we think. We arrive in the afternoon to discover that all the hostels (there are only 3 though) are all booked up and the ... read more
28th apr 2009 Left byron bay super early. Sad to go. But an unacceptably early glass of goon cheers us up somewhat whoops. Get to Surfer's and meet up with Irish Jonny from Malaysia and Sydney again who has finally decided to join us for the rest of our Oz journey. Sort out some kind of holding bay for New Zealand chavs type hostel and head straight for the the white sandy beaches. Whiter sand than Byron Bay and much nicer beach but skyscapers and mcdaonalds far too close to the beach front for my liking...shopping malls expensive restaurants...completely different. Super tired and spend most of the day napping on the beach with an attempt to swim but the water is bloody freezing still. surfers down side...the beach is covered in shade by 3pm due to ... read more
20th Apr --27th Apr...the best place ever! Sun sea sand and an awesome lighthouse that I got slightly obsessed with. Some awesome people and an awesome session and hence the week we spent here. We met Jim and Annabel and Rosanna and Dave and Ross and Tom and Mike and Stephan some swedes we forget the names of some irish and some germans girls who dont seem to like us mainly because dont think they like the sesh. There was a lot of goon (boxes of wine for you lot at home), drinking for 7 days, a lot of dancing about 40 pies between us by the end of the week which we didnt seem to think was enough and never getting home before 5am on any night we were there. we adopted a new best ... read more
d 86--13/04/09 SYDNEY!! well a lot of travelling to sydney ....12 hours on a coach in fact but luckily we're back on the westernised side of the world so the coach is spacious (as spacious as a coach can be) the seats are comfy and made of r anormal sized person the people dont stare at you in a pervy manner and there is also a dvd or 2 on the way. Arrive in Sydney 9pm, raining cats and dogs ..find nearest hostel quite nice right by the train station and the dorms are in old train carridges next to the platform....might close the curtains. Change clothes quick smart as off to meet Johnny (Katie's favourite we met in Kuala Lumpar) at the bar just a block away. We have some beers, get chatted up by ... read more
