Blogs from Moreton Bay, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Suprisingly for a camp site in a spider's equivalent of Clare in a shoe shop we avoided getting bitten or attacked by the little blighters during the night. Our Tent probably resembled NORAD due to the amount of zips and blockers Clare secured during the course of the evening. We haven't encountered any Red Back Spiders yet - they are proper evil - but we have now seen a Funnel Web (will easily kill you if it bites you), a few Huntsman (big Tarantula's but not too dangerous) and a whole load of Golden Orbs (will do you a bit of damage). The thing is they hang all over the place - and you can easily find yourself walking into a web and shitting yourself for the next 30 seconds. They also seem to like ... read more

Hej alle. Vi haaber I nyder at laese lidt om vores oplevelser her i det australske. Vi nyder i hvert fald meget at vaere her. Siden sidst har vi vaeret ved Hervey Bay og set pukkelhvaler. Desvaerre har vi ingen gode billeder af de fantastiske pattedyr, kun video. Men helt fantastisk at se dem.... Efter det tog vi til Brisbane, som bare er en storby. Lidt saert at vaere der, efter vi har set saa meget smuk natur. De havde en dejlig oase, hvor de havde lavet en slags strand - lige midt i byen. Efter 2 dage der, tog vi ud paa Moreton Island, hvor vi boede paa en gammel hvalfanger -station. Der er de nu kendte for, at man kan fodre delfiner. Meget kontrolleret, da det er vilde delfiner der kommer ind. Stor oplevelse ... read more

Gday. My name is Troy and on the 28th of Novermeber myself and two mates are going oversead to fiji, canada and hawaii. We have booked our flights and accomodation through STA travel. We'll be flying Air Pacific to Fiji, Canada and Hawaii!!!! There not much left for us to do as this point apart from saving like crazy! All tickets, accomodation and insurance have been paid off and the only things we really need to look into is international drivers licences, baggage restricitons for the flights and in general what we would like to do overseas. The general plan................ Departing BRISvegas airport on the 28th of november. Arrive in fiji and stay for three nights. From here fly to Vancouver, Canada with a short stop only for a few hours in honolulu on the way ... read more

Hey all! I've been in Brisbane for a few days now. Pretty cool city, not too big considering that it's the third largest city in Australia. They also have a lagoon here on the South Bank which is close to where we're staying ( Somewhere to Stay hostel). Visited a few free museum but mostly took some sun. David-Olivier arrived here yesterdat so we did a barbie to celebrate. Getting ready to leave tomorrow mornign for Surfers Paradise , staying there for 2 ngihts and then going to Byron Bay... The end is near but I'm trying to enjoy every last day I have in this beautiful and perfect country!... read more

After Wednesday's film festival marathon in Brisbane we took a train out to the town of Manly (not to be confused with the beach town of the same name outside Sydney) in Moreton Bay. We had planned to visit St. Helena Island which was the site of an early convict settlement but found that as it's winter, no trip was running on the days we were there. Instead, we considered taking a ferry to Moreton Island but we ruled this out as we were planning to visit Fraser Island further up the coast - both are examples of sand islands but Fraser is largest of this type in the world. By default, we ventured out to North Stradbroke Island via a train ride to Cleveland, the "Gold Cat" ferry and two bus trips. There's an amazing ... read more