Blogs from Batemans Bay, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Escrevemos enquanto comemos umas deliciosas panquecas em Batemans Bay, a nossa primeira paragem a caminho de Sydney.Ontem logo cedo deixamos as malas no hotel e fomos buscar o nosso bólide ( um Ford XK com eleron que mais parece um Subaru). Basicamente perdemos metade da manha para fazer meia dúzia de quarteirões para recolher as malas!! Ou o gps nao funcionava ou as placas nao estavam no sócio certo ou entravamos nas curvas em contra mão... Um filme! Lá atinamos com a condução e seguimos para Sul via a grand pacific road. A vista é deslumbrante, a estrada passa por parques naturais e falésias de cortar a respiração. Resolvemos parar em Hyams Beach na Jervis Bay para comprovar a cor da areia que segundo o livro do guiness tem a areia mais branca do mundo. A ... read more

Today we got up packed our bags and tried to get out of Sydney without being driven over this was not easy and in the end it took almost one hour to leave town. We learned that the definition of Highway has a different meaning here than at home!!! So driving 250 km took five hours. But it was worth it as the views we got in the Royal National Park and Murramarang National Parks were breath taking. Just before we arrived in Batemans Bay where we spent the night we turned of the highway onto a small dirt road leading us to Pebbly Beach. We had read that kangaroos often come to this beach at dusk and low and behold as we walked onto the beach three kangaroos hopped straight past us! We spent about ... read more

Canberra We stayed at Ulladulla for one night. The caravan park we stayed at had a massive indoor pool with 3 slides, water tipping buckets and mushrooms thing that had water coming out of it. We stayed in Canberra with our friends Liam, Connor, Chrissie, Graham and Julia. We swam in the pool everyday. They are a lot of fun. We went to the adventure play ground. The Sprowls are very fit and they all do triathelons. Graham gave me Liam's old bike. It is the best bike I have ever had. It has gears and a stand. My old bike didn't have any of those things. I am so lucky. Places we visited: The mint, The portrait gallery and the National Museum. My favourite place was the mint because I saw the machines/ robots making ... read more

4-6 November 2010 Rain rain go away! We are now in Murramarang National Park a few kms north of Batemans Bay. Every so often we get really over the rain as it would be nice to dry the tent out.. On the other hand, we have set up camp on the edge of a rainforest which is absolutely beautiful. We look out into this amazing scenery full of bird life. There are kangaroos roaming free all through the camp site as well as all over the beaches. The boys are so amazed that the kangaroos are so close and you can even pat some of them. We have been into Batemans Bay and checked out Pebbly Beach and Pretty Beach. Depot Beach (where we are staying) is the most picturesque though. Really looking forward to some ... read more

Australia, July 26th - August 6th , 2010 After spending exactly 3 months traveling South East Asia, we were finally going to the long awaited destination of Australia. I say long awaited because Australia is the most similar place to home that we have been to since leaving Europe in September of last year. Its a place where rooms are clean, they have toilets (that even flush) and you don’t have to carry toilet paper with you 24 hours a day. Buses run on time, they take as long as you are told they would, and you don’t have to haggle for everything that you buy. So, as much as we did like Asia, it was nice to be in a place that felt more like home. We arrived on the 5th continent of our ... read more