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Oceania » Australia » Queensland July 12th 2007

What a great experience I worked for peter and jayne looking after their show horses. We traveled to the ingham horse show and stayed in the truck for 3 nights. Robbie was my favourite horse, there is also logan, rose, muffin the dog and mini the kitten. I met a french girl mary who was the groom here she was great help showing me how to put all the rugs on the horses and look after them. Did you know some horses have make up and fake tails!!!!seriousley theses horses were amazing. Rose or her show name of Katie scallywag won her title of champion hack. There was a rodeo on too at the night time, great fun!!! ... read more
katie scallywag winning champion hack with jayne
mary and logan
mini

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Magnetic Island July 9th 2007

Loved this place me and Hannah went across to magnetic island for the full moon party, got quite drunk and partyed all night with simon, john,verron,ian and mark that we met on fraser island and the whitsundays. Hannah and I decided to go for walk to the beach one day except missed the trail and ended up rock climbing down the side of a cliff through really prickley grass and all sorts, was worth it though the beach was mint. We hired moped for a day too, was great fun tazzing around the island.... read more
this is where we rock climber too
and heres me rock climbing
ian,john,hannah,mark,simon,me

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Whitsundays July 4th 2007

More like sailing the WETsundays! Again we were not lucky with the weather but we still had a fantastic time! Quite a lot of the goups who did Fraser Island continued up to Airlie beach to do the sailing trip. It wasnt really a sailing trip, more like a boat party! Had loads of fun, i know that sailers like their alcohol so there were loads of drinks on board, the irish turned up in funny hats and the the entire trip was very entertaining! Hannah Had to borrow the host jacket nearly blinding a few people! The first day we sailed over to the Island where we would be staying, from a distance it just looked like rainforrest but as we neared it became like a resort. We were already wobbly from the boat ride ... read more
steve, jock and matt
me,matt,tom,simon
ah hoy there

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island June 20th 2007

Frazer island is the biggest sand island in the world, its just an island full of sand, rainforrests and lakes, no swimming in the sea aloud as man eating sharks flipping around! You see pictures of this place with white sandy beaches, blue sky,turquise lagoons…not bloody likely it was the coldest day in something like 60 years!!!we took a 4 wheel drive with the others from our group tom, lucy,matt,jock,dave,hannah,carl and kelly and went round the island for 3 days. It was a gorgeous place ill give it that but was oh so cold. AT night we would set up our camp and pitch the tents then get drunk and play drinking games to make arctic night more bearable. Sleeping on the beach in a tent with no insolating matt gail force winds and rain was ... read more
the lads rolling downs the dunes into lake wabby
searching for sharks

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Gold Coast » Mt Tamborine June 10th 2007

This is where i went wwoofing for the 3rd time and it was 3rd time lucky ill say, the house was big with a gorgeous landscaped tropical and organic garden. I spent 2 weeks at this place and would have liked to stay for longer. my hosts bev and geoff were the most lovley people you can wish to stay with pluss geoff cooked roast lamb and rhubarb crumble and all sort of delicous food with pudding every night wherhoooo! ill tell you what i leart loads about food and nutrition here, did you know that milk is actually a load of crap!!! that saying int milk brillient is b*llox, basically because milk is heated up when pasturized it kills all the germs and your body needs germ to digest the food...meaning the calcium in the ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Gold Coast » Surfers Paradise June 6th 2007

Had a few drunken nights here with carl, kelly,hannah,llanan and charlotte, basically its like benidorm but in oz, hugh hotels, loads of shops, theme parks etc..i only stayed here for 4 days and amuzed myself by going to movie world and seaworld. The beach was really nice but very windy so no sunbathing for me. jackie and wayne came down for the day so that was really good to meet up with the shrims again, spent the day shopping and eating and ofcourse in the pub! The second time me and hannah came back for 1 night and went to see sheck the 3rd and ate alot of sweets till we felt sick (so nothing new there) we were going to get a job on a boat that sailed round to darwin and to asia but ... read more
shrimps in surfers
in the pub

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Byron Bay May 31st 2007

After spending 3 weeks on the farms it was time to have some fun!!! met up with hannah again and also carl, kelly, laura,llanan,mimi and gary from coogee. I started off in a shrimp shack tent made up from odds and end found around the camp site, it was very cosy i must say...then hannah found us both gigantic tents deffinatley luxury apart from the rat that decided to befriend me in the middle of the night and caused absolute mayhem...i was screaming and the rat was running up and down the inside of my tent making rather large holes....the rat went and then returned at 5am scarred the living shit out of me!!! ....since that insident i have not kept cheese and chive flavour rice cakes in there!! We have all been working in the ... read more
byron bay sunset

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Nimbin May 28th 2007

Now this was a day out i can say, going to nimbin is like going back in time to some sort of crazy circus, theres hippies everywhere that seem to have been stuck in a time warp from when the mardie grass festivals started. I did see some strange characters i can say, the bus we went on was like being on a rollercoaster ride going up and down the hills with bob marley in the background. We went to some crazy persons house and returned with a jack fruit (curtesy of hannah...they are hugh fruits for those of you that dont know about the size of a water melon) I can honestly say nimbin has the best chips ever...that good we went back a second time but the place was closed and me and hannah ... read more
hippies man
on the way to nimbin
nimbin

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Newcastle May 2nd 2007

Ok so i went wwoofing, this is basically staying on a farm working so your keep, you dont get paid but figured id be in the middle of nowhere so wouldnt be spending any money and would get to see the real australia aswell as learing how to herd cattle, go crazy with a chain saw and see some countryside. Now you might all laugh but ive turned into mary poppins, ive been busy cleaning and preparing the cottages that are rented out for mini breaks, they are 4 star so everything has to be bloody perfect (mum, to your standards or folding towels with fancy chicolates on and things) The last few day we have been gardening so ive been running round the farm with the lawn mower and industrial strimer and i look ... read more
der de der der de der ghost busters
kate and laura
me and kate

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road April 30th 2007

no road kill on this trip! Australasia » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road By shrimpApril 30th 2007 Me and Jade took a car for 3 days and drove the great ocean road which is one of the most scenic drives in oz according to the lonley planet. We went past bells beach where they have all the surf competitions. There are loads of stretches golden sand beaches with no one on them so it was really nice. We stopped off at a lighthouse and went inside and also saw loads of wildlife along the way. We saw kangaroos, kualas and emus in the bush. We drove to the 12 appostles which were amazing, we got th... read more
12 appostles
london bridge
kangaroos playing




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