Blogs from Great Barrier Reef, Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
cape tribulation and so on...
Published: February 20th 2012Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
February 20th 2012
so a kind irish girl has let me use her notebook... on valentines day chloe and i went for a romantic walk along the beach...pictures to come :) and after chlo prosing to me with a coconut we decided to head back to Cairns all loved up haha. back to Gilligans we went for a wonderful italian meal and spent the next day by the lagoon cooling off becasue it was so damn hot! we had a lindt ball on valentines day at the restuarnt and it tasted like heaven after not having choc for 1month and 2weeks! on thursday we headed off to the Great Barrier Reef on a boat trip. we drove through a thunderstorm before coming out into the reef with all its turquiosiey splender ha! we saw a turtle which was the ... read more
trip to australia 2010
Published: November 29th 2010Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
November 28th 2010
Northwards to Cairns Heading up the Bruce highway the weather became very wet. At times the rain was lashing down. We left Cyril and Kasia and did a detour through some beautifully green countryside, long straight roads with little traffic. Farms set in valleys, cows, cultivated fields, small towns and villages. We carried on and on, stopping for lunch and filling up with fuel. Eventually we realised that reaching Townsville was out of the question and it was getting late, the rain was torrential and we were tired, so we decided wherever the next place to stay was, we were stopping. It was a caravan/camping site at clevedon, a tiny strip of development along the side of an inlet and a massive area of water. This was a fishing resort of sorts, and the people were ... read more
Cape Tribulation & Mareeba
Published: June 17th 2010Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
June 17th 2010
huhuu hallooo wie gehts wie stehts?? Ich hab's mal geschafft, dass ich aus dem schoenen Port Douglas raus komme :) Hab meine 7 Sachen gepackt und rrrrein ins Auto (jaa richtig gelesen - AUTO mit 4 Raedern :) ) Auf dem Wochenendsplan stand: Cape Tripulation und kurzumentschlossen Mareeba. Aber zuerst zu Cape Tribulation: Port Douglas raus, bei Mossman gings vorbei - immer weiter in den Norden ... Mit der Ferry ging es ueber ein kleinen River voll mit Crocs und hinein in den Regenwald!!! Die Strassen sind alle asphaltiert aber ziemlich eng. Auf der Seite sieht man nur Gruenzeug! Da bekommt man Lust, Tarzan zu spielen :)) Purer Dschungel - sonst nichts - alles Gruen thihi Der erste Stooopp war Daintree Icecream Company. Wir (Giles und ich) fuhren eine kleine unbedeutende Schotterstrasse entlang bis wir eine ... read more
Cairns
Published: June 23rd 2009Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
June 23rd 2009
hi everyone!!! thought id update our blog now that we're home from our wee holiday. it was AMAZING! on wed we flew to Cairns which is about a 2 hour flight from brisbane. when we arrived the weather was beautiful, sooooooooo sunny and our accommodation was good. that day callum and i just explored the place, its really chilled out and we loved it. the next day we got picked up early and went on a tour to cape tribulation which is the rainforest a few hours north of cairns, there is no electricity or anything! its one of the nicest places iv ever been. so peaceful and so muuch to see. we were living in wee log cabins in the middle of the rainforest, and trying to get about at night was hard with ... read more
Cape Tribulation - Where the rainforest meets the reef
Published: February 25th 2009Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
February 14th 2009
Day 228: Thursday 12th February - I’m an ant licker, and I don’t care! It is yet another early start in Cairns as I’m getting picked up at 7:30am for a tour going north to Cape Tribulation. Almost everyone on the tour with the exception of a Swiss couple and an Irish guy are English. Our first stop of the day is to a wildlife sanctuary. I question our driver, Scotty when we get off the bus as already he has sent around a sheet for people to choose their lunch option and now he is about to buy entrance tickets for everyone on the bus. The tour I paid for didn’t include either lunch or entrance to the wildlife sanctuary as I’ve done enough wildlife sanctuary’s/zoo’s over the last few weeks and I’m sure I ... read more
Fraser Island
Published: February 3rd 2009Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
February 3rd 2009
Of all the places and of all the things I have ever done while traveling...Fraser Island is in the top three if not number one...We arrived in Rainbow Beach which is the jump off point to arrive in Fraser Island...We got to our hostel called Dingos for our briefing the day before we headed over to the Island...They broke up 44 of us in to 4 groups of 11...And provided us with an order form for booze and a list of our camping supplies and food...The next morning we got up bright and early to pack our trucks...The cars were land cruisers kitted out to 4 wheel drive and had racks on the roof to pack up all of our gear...They gave us 4 tents, 2 coolers, cooking supplies and all our food and drinks...We packed ... read more
Explosive Newyear and tropical cape tribulation
Published: January 2nd 2009Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
January 2nd 2009
Hello again folks, nu dat we terug in de bewoonde wereld rondtrekken kunnen we wat regelmatiger de blog uptdaten he. Onze nieuwjaar was een vroege dit jaar, lekker eten in Darwin, het Noorden van Australie en als 2 watjes op tijd ons bed in want heel moe (en in die godverlaten stad valt gewoon NIKS te beleven :). Goed slapen is het toch niet geworden: om half 6 sochtens schieten we plots wakker na een extreeeem harde knal op de gang!! En erna brandalarm...de meest extreme scenario's (geweerschoten? bom? en andere dingen om elkaar nerveus te maken :) schieten door ons hoofd. Vlug grabbelen we paspoorten, wat geld en wat kleren bij elkaar en volgen the flow langsheen de brandladder naar beneden. Buiten zien we een security dude, waaraan we vertellen dat er een gigantische knal ... read more
Cruising down the East Coast of Australia
Published: November 11th 2008Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
November 10th 2008
The beginning of the campervan started out with a bit of a wrinkle. We thought the rental place was a 5 minute walk from our guesthouse...after about 1 hour and 3km later...oh and a body drencehed in sweat...we arrived to get our fabulous campervan. Its one big advertisement, but not as bad as the company called Wicked, which have paintings on the sides of them such as: Kiss, Sopranos, "I DO NOT MASTERBATE," and other funny/fresh/crude paintings. Anyway, our BackPacker van is our new home for the next month. Dave has to do all of the driving, because its a manual and i cannot drive it...but maybe i will try to learn on it. We started the trip up north in Cairns. we were saying it all wrong the entire time, since they have a funny ... read more
Blooming Marvellous Bloomfield
Published: July 24th 2008Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
July 23rd 2008
When we originally booked our trip with Trailfinders they recommended that we have a few days peace and quiet to recharge our batteries in Australia. Fortunately they could recommend somewhere (funny that!) - a place owned and managed by them (doubly funny that!!) - called Bloomfield. Despite not really knowing anything about it and really just relying on a knowing look from Nick at Trailfinders, for our whole trip Bloomfield has represented an "oasis" in an otherwise pretty frantic wizz around the Southern Hemisphere - thankfully it didn't disappoint... actually quite the opposite... Bloomfield is situated on Weary Bay just North of Cape Tribulation in far Northern Queensland literally at the spot where Captain Cook crashed and burned (or scraped anyway) on the Great Barrier Reef. Talk about a wingeing pomme - just look at the ... read more
Cape Tribulation - Regenwald trifft Groesses Barrierreriff
Published: July 19th 2008Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cape Tribulation » Great Barrier Reef
July 19th 2008
hallihallo! uns gehts prima hier! sind nun in far north queensland noerdlich von cairns vorbei an port douglas und daintree am cape tribulation und es ist traumhaft - super sonnenwetter und der strand ist traumhaft. fast keine leute hier oben und unsere huette im urwald ist echt schoen! heute waren wir am great barrier reef schnorcheln - eine surreale welt da unten - so friedlich und harmonisch und eine farbenpracht - gigantisch! vielen dank fuer eure zahlreichen nachrichten, freue mich sehr, wenn ich von daheim auch ein bisserl was hoere! vlg martin und kathi ps: der internetzugang hier im cape trib beach house macht um 11pm zu, drum muss ich jetzt schluss machen, melde mich aber demnaechst wieder und - ich will nicht zu viel versprechen - aber vielleicht gelingt es mir, einige fotos hochzuladen - ... read more
