Blogs from New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 1127

Naa blir d surfing paa oss!:D har booket aa betalt femdagers surf camp naa, sammen med Elisabeth, Kine, Signe og Ida. Starter i Sydney paa mandags morgen, som ender i Byron Bay fredag. Imellomtiden stopper vi altsaa paa diverse strender oppover mot Byron Bay, der vi skal proeve aa laere aa surfe litt uten aa drukne saa alt for mye. Med i prisen er ogsaa en egen Rip Curl surfeskjorte, det hoeres bra ut;) Aa alle maaltid og overnattinger er inkludert i prisen, men hvordan standard det er aner vi ikke saa det blir interessant aa finne ut. Gratis pizza and beer i Sydney skulle det visstnok ogsaa vaere. Gleder oss vanvittig mye til det naa!:) I gaar var jeg og Elisabeth paa shoppern..svidde av litt for mye ja..Men jeg fikk mye for pengene; et par ... read more

I head back to Syndey for a week to catch up with Sar before my trip to NZ (and also because I love Syndey!) Catch a flight from Brisbane (1 hour), and am in Crow's Nest later that day. Lee is away on business for the first 2 evenings, so Sar and I catch up over wine and take-aways, and just generally enjoy girl talk!! ... read more

I spent a feqw days in Byron Bay, this tunred out to be longer than i had planned but it just seemed far better that Surfers (where i briefly went) which seems so capitalist that i just headed back to Byron. Byron is a moor relaxed place, in some ways its like an exponentially smaller san francisco, which is good. I got there, with no hostel to stay in and this wasn't good, the place is so popular that every bed was booked out, which was a shame. I had to get a more expensive hotewl room for my first night, butv was able to book into a hostel for the next three. In my hostel i met a gang of seven Irish guys who were really friendly, accompanying them were two norweigian girls and a ... read more

My time here was the best. It is such a beautiful town. The owner of the hostel took me on a tour round the town and down to the water to show me these massive sting rays. They were huge! A guy was cutting up some fish and throwing the leftovers into the water where the sting ray would gulp it up through his belly whole! On my walk around Narooma I came across what I thought were 'heaps' of stones but in fact they were crabs. Absolutely hundreds of them. I crouched down to have a closer look and take some photos and I noticed that they were appearing from underneath them mud. The sound of their movement was so loud, it was strange. Sabine and I also went on a bike ride (oh how ... read more

So we arrived in Cronulla and have been backwards and forwards to the Blue Mountains... as we like it so much. The weather has reminded us of home as one day it is grey and then the next it is wet... the only difference is when the sun shines the weather ends up as hot as 40 degrees!!! Well, hope you enjoy this new lot of photo's .... Missing you all Suzanne and Tony xx xx... read more