Blogs from Agnes Water, Queensland, Australia, Oceania

Hammered it down on Saturday morning when we left Rainbow Beach. All day I kept slipping in my flip flops when we would take breaks in the journey. Wet floor and flip flops are lethal and after the 6th slip I fell over in the middle of a zebra crossing! I got up extremely quickly to keep going as a car was coming but I tore a whole in my new three quarte trousers :( On our way to Agnes Waters we stopped at a rum distillery at Bundaberg. We did a rum tasting. Not much of a rum drinker usually but rum and coke was actually quite nice. They also had this coffee and chocolate liquor (thankfully couldn't taste much coffee) which we had with cream and it was delicious!!! Rum went straight to my ... read more

Day 35, 16/10/11 I got up at 5am today for a free 'Feed Wild Dolphins tour' which left at 6:30am and got back at 9:30am in time for checkout at 10am. I caught the mini bus to the boat, got on the boat to the dolphin cove and got off. We waited about an hour for the dolphins and none came so we got back on the boat to come back - very disappointing but we were told if we wanted we could come back another day and do it again. As I was leaving today I wasn't too fussed - and it was a freebie anyway. They told us the storm from last night put lots of fresh water into the cove and the dolphins don't like fresh water. We caught the 12:30pm bus up ... read more

Friday 5th August Today we went to the movies to see the movie "Red Dog" - a movie about a red Kelpie who adopted the town of Dampier and it's people and united the town. The movie made us think of Robby Dog (Geoff's dog who now has gone to heaven). It is a good aussie movie with a lot of laugh's and a few tears. We then had lunch at the "Brothers Club" - the meals at these clubs are very good value for money. A main meal for around $10 each, of course they have a huge poker machine room - it looked like a Las Vagas room with all the sparkling lights everywhere and there were quite a few people playing the machines and of course this helps pay for the cheap meals. ... read more

Wie im letzten Eintrag erwähnt, haben wir uns das Ziel gesetzt, einen Ausflug Richtung Great Barrier Reef zu machen. Im Prinzip ist das ganz einfach: man fährt zum Anfang des Reefs (z.B. nach Agnes Water / Town of 1770) und bucht eine Tour auf einem Boot. Leider war es in der Realität etwas komplizierter. Wegen den ungewöhnlichen Wetterbedingungen in Australien gibt es an der Küste oft Perioden mit starkem Wind. Während dieser Zeit können die Boote nicht zum Riff hinausfahren und schlimmer, wir befanden uns genau in der Mitte einer solchen Periode. Da die Wetterdienste eine Verbesserung der Lage erst am Ende unserer Camperreise vorsahen, änderten wir unseren Reiseplan, um etwas später in Agnes Water / Town of 1770 anzukommen, und buchten eine Bootstour nach Lady Musgrove Island. Als wir in Noosa abfuhren, fragten wir uns, ... read more

Sorry I haven't been able to get on the internet much so haven't updated this as much as I wanted to! It's been an eventful week and I am really really bored today! Went to Fraser Island at the weekend which was amazing, Lake Mackenzie has got to be one of the most stunning places on earth and also Lake Wabby, but wasn't a fan of the up hill mountain HIKE we had to do to get there! Also saw a dingo eating a turtle straight out of the shell which was weird and also smelt bloody horrible! I'm now in Agnes Water and I think I'm going to be stranded for a couple of days as the rain is so bad that the road up to Airlie Beach has been closed so I have had ... read more

Durch Miriam Vale (wunderschoenes Oertl ; ) ) zu Agnes Water, wo ich meine ersten Surfversuche hatte -gar nit ohne -die Balance zu halten, aber machte Spass! Agnes Water hats mir irgendwie angetan: Surfen, mitm Scooter durch die Gegend duesen, nette Fotos machen lassen ; ) , kreatives Betaetigen, wie zeichnen, Gitarre lernen etc. , am Strand entlabg spazieren und einfach relaxen... ja, hat schon was! : ) nur leider immer no teilweise sehr verregnet, aber in einem komfortablen Wohnmobil laesst es sich schon ein Zeitl aushalten : )... read more

Ok, first things first. Yes, i am alive (only just mind you). No, i have not forgotten about this blog, and i apologise now for spelling mistakes. I have less than an hour to write this and then internet is so expensive! So the last time i blogged, we were leaving asia Australia bound! We landed in Cairns to some serious heat and with a couple guys we met in pretty much every country in asia we set off for our hostel. Gilligans was the name and if you've ever been to cairns you'll no its pretty crazy there! The nighclub downstairs made for a pretty messy first night and the live band was ace! (Also the pool was pretty lush, didnt seem to get pools in asia... or hot showers) Cairns is a lovely city, ... read more

From Airlie Beach we moved on to somewhere… very quiet. The next part of our trip took us to Agnes Waters, next to Town of 1770. The Town of 1770 is where the Australia story all begins – Captain Cook landed there back in 1770 and we now have Australia. Agnes Water is next door with a little more going on than the 50-something residents of 1770. However, there is not a huge amount to do there so if you find your self there or are planning to stop there one/two nights is more than enough. Despite being a quiet place we still got in some firsts and adrenalin rushes. Poonam put her feet to board and went for a surfing lesson! After a couple hours in the water she is now level one certified. It ... read more