Our first day in Sydney started pretty well, we managed to naivagate our way around to drop the car back at Darling Harbour and then went for a bit of culture at the Maritime Museum, we decided against the aquarium due to ridiculous overpricing so instead we headed over to meet Chewy (another mate from the Asia trip) briefly before he left Sydney. Following this we decided to go on a wander through the city before heading back to rest our weary feet-and i managed to get a $10 hair cut from an English girl at the hostel. Nice couple actually [View Full Entry]

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So we left Gotcha in Mackay after some interesting time at work and some more interesting people and times with the gang! We flew direct to Sydney and stayed the night in the maze backpackers in central sydney, arrived fairly late so didn't see much of the city but SCORE we got upgraded to a 2-person room instead of an 8 bed dorm- much better considering half to residents there were drunk and sick by the time we arrived! The following day we headed off to navigate our way to the novotel to collect our wheels for the next couple of [View Full Entry]

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Finally we said goodbye to Gotcha! and boarded a very late flight to Melbourne via Brisbane. Flight was pretty uneventful but neither of us managed as much sleep as we'd hoped. It was a bit of a shock to the system getting on a flight in Darwin, where we'd finally got used to the heat and humidity, then getting off in Melbourne and feeling cold enough to actually put on a jumper!!!! God help us when we get to New Zealand and home!! Arrived in Melbourne mid-morning to be greeted by Auntie Jean and Bob, luckily Matt recognised her instantly so [View Full Entry]

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Only a 4 hour stint in the car this time, arrived in Darwin in the dark and took a few minutes longer than usual to locate the apartments but we found it eventually and headed pretty swiftly to bed. Plenty to choose from!! beds enough for 11 people and only 3 of us there! Bit of an upgrade to the spacious cabin of Katherine and our own ensuite again!! Our first morning we went down to the local market for breakfast and to have a look at some of the crafts and nik naks, nothing took our fancy so we headed [View Full Entry]

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We finally reached the small town of Katherine in the afternoon of Matt's birthday. It was quite fun to see all the abo's staggering around in the shopping centre car park and get out of the car to hear the music the large street-speakers play to all of them presumably to entertain them and try to prevent them fighting in their drunken boredem. We were pretty astonished to find that everyone in town seems to know everyone else...the first guy Matt spoke to could tell us exactly where our mate from Asia 'Cat' was working despite the fact all we could [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Townsville pretty late and our first views were through torrential downpours..not good fun driving around in the dark trying to find the place you have never seen before. The apartment was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we were all gobsmacked!! We fell on our feet and got the master bedroom with king size bed, ensuite bathroom with spa bath and a tv!! The kitchen was gorgeous and had a breakfast bar and the sofas and big widescreen tv were just the ticket! Lovely pool and spa and right opposite the ferry terminal to the island so very convenient, plus only a s [View Full Entry]

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Our first work post was a few hours up from the gold coast, we met up with our other 2 team members.. two Danish girls called Sofie and Signe (pronounced ZENA like the warrior princess) and moved into travel-mode before reaching our apartment full of krispy kreme doughnuts!!yum! The apartment was fairly nice, comfortable and clean with some laz-e-boys chairs and stuff so that was nice. Not great with numbers work-wise but we did our best and eventually one of our managers came up to try and vamp things up and we got a couple of good days. We were pleased [View Full Entry]

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We drove for several hours, accompanied by some Harry Potter on the old Ipod and it wasn't such a bad drive!! We reached Tin Can Bay late evening and pulled up outside a campsite to get our bearings and make plans for overnight accommodation and seeing the dolphins the following morning, only to be approached by the owner of the caravan site brandishing a torch and accusing us of sneaking in to use his facilities..which hadn't acually crossed our minds until after he said it! cheeky sod! An early start down to the harbour and straight into the water knee deep [View Full Entry]

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Following christmas we took to the roads for some serious driving!! Our first stop was a night in Mackay, a nice town further up the coast. The campsite was nice and shady and a lovely sea breeze which helped us get to sleep that night!! There was a beach just next to the campground so we had some nice walks along, amazed at the huge amount of tiny little crabs all along the beach!! Only a brief stop up in Mackay though, and then on further all the way up to Airlie beach where we intended to spend a longer stretch [View Full Entry]

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Christmas day for us began at the not so dignified time of around 7am, the sun was definately already high and hot hot hot!! We got up at our usual leisurely pace and indulged in some lovely cereal.. before exchanging a few xmas greetings with our pals on the campsite. After slapping on the suncream we headed down to the beach for a quick dip. Naturally aftter the mention of shark-infested water the previosu day saw me entering a little cautiously! But once i saw others in i went for it..it wasn't that deep anyway so i took the chance and [View Full Entry]

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