Blogs from Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Halli Hallo, ertmal ein ganz großes Dankeschön an die Leute die das hier lesen! Ich hätte ja nicht gedacht, dass es so viele interessiert. Dumpel die dumm... ich dümpel so vor mich hin :) Die Regenwald tour war recht interessant! Ich haben jedemenge "Flying Foxes" gesehe die mit Ihren großen braunen Augen in den Bäumen hängen, habe Bäume bestaunt die über 60 Meter hoch sind und bin Lieanen hochgeklättert. Die Kanu tour war recht geil, da wir am Ende Steine aus dem Fluss gefischt haben, aus denen man eine Farbige Paste gewinnen konnte und uns damit gegenseitig und alles um uns herrum wild bemalt haben (Aborigines-Painting) In Cairns an sich hab ich dann ein Hostel gefunden, dass mich nur 15$/Nacht gekostet hat incl. Frühstück und freiem Internett. Dementsprechend bin ich auch fast 1 1/2 Wochen in ... read more

We arrived at Airlie Beach at the beginning of August, with the idea of spending a couple of days sailing the islands of Whitsunday, one of the “must do”s of the Australian east coast. We first spent some nights in an organic farm inland, which was run by a couple with two daughters and two dogs and two horses and two..no three cows (but actually two giving milk and one calf). We stayed there through the helpX system, helping with some works 4-5 hours a day. We did some fencing, weeding with a really hot sun. They were quite into organic food, have their veggie garden and doing their own cheese, butter and yogourt from their own fresh milk. Baking as well their bred. That is to say that we filled our stomachs quite a lot ... read more

Grandpa here is the password Austrailia or austrailia2012 The letters should not because sensitive We are iairlines beach until the 23rd it is a spectacular location and so so tropical it is hard for us to believe that it is winter here! The weather is quite perfect but it does get chilly quickly when the sun goes down at 6 pm each night. Quite amazing actually as it disappears in about two minutes! We spent the day on Camira yesterday - an 80 ft catamaran snorkeling and spending time at the famous whitehaven beach on Whitsunday island. The sand is pure white silicA that cleans jewel really well and feels like baby powder. It is a protected park so you can't bar.ing sand back so you will just have to trust us with how amazing it ... read more

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So we headed off to the "bullzeye" Rodeo in the "Great Western" hotel on Saturday night. There was a mini bus going from our hostel in Emu Park, carrying about 10 people. We were all given a can of beer and a cowboy hat before we left. Full of excitement, we undertook the 40 minute journey nto Rockhampton. So we arrived and whet an experience it was! It was like walking on to a set of a country and western movie. Real cowboys standing at the bar- check shirts, wrangler jeans and leather chaps. Along with this they had that country accent, the walk and general demeanour of real life cowboys! It was surreal, really it was!There were real, famous bull heads on the wall, taking pride of place. These were champion bulls in ther time ... read more

14th May ’12 Leaving Sydney and the start of the Motorhead Motor Home Adventure! Howard and Matty set off to fetch the Motor Home while the rest of us packed up and got the gear down to the road to wait for them. We weren’t sure how long it would take them but knew when they pulled up we would just have to jump in and not hang around. Once they arrived we had a mad scramble to put the bags in and then we shot straight off. Well this was our first introduction to the motor home and it was bigger than I had expected but with 4 of us plus bags everywhere it wasn’t long before we realised that we had to get the gear stowed away. As we flew round corners the stuff ... read more

Had an 11 hour journey to Airlie Beach and Wednesday! We stopped in Sarina and did lawn bowling which was pretty random and I got perved on by some of the old men there! I'm even worse at lawn bowling than I am at 10 pin bowling and I came to the conclusion that I pretty much suck at all activities! I keep trying and hey its the taking part that counts! :P Arrive in Airlie quite late in the evening and feeling pretty stressed! Had a lot to sort out this evening to get ready for our Whitsundays trip tomorrow. Had to do laundry as I have run out of clean clothes, as well as meet our bus group for food. Had an amazing pizza at the Downunder bar, possibly the best pizza I have ... read more

Hello again! Well I arrived safely in Cairns early on Tuesday morning and got a transfer to my hostel, Gilligans. I was sharing a room with 7 other people but this was more than made up for by the fact that the hostel was right in the centre of town, had it's own swimming pool, bar and club and the people in my room were really friendly. I went out for lunch with Andy, someone I met on the Cambodia tour and then sunbathed for most of the afternoon (fortunately I managed not to burn this time which was rather nice). I had dinner in the hostel and then went out for the night. On the Wednesday, I had booked myself on a boat trip out to the Barrier Reef to do some snorkelling which was ... read more