Blogs from Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 48

"Un week-end sur un coin de Paradis"... cela suffirait a resumer notre excursion sur Fraser Island. Cependant, nous ne vous ferons pas l'affront de nous limiter a ce commentaire un peu maigre, bien qu'explicite. Vendredi soir, 18h00, nous avons pris le route pour le Nord, depuis Brisbane, en direction de Rainbow Beach, ou Sandra avait pris soin de nous reserver une nuit. Trois heures, un bon nombre de tournants et quelques nuages de brouillard plus tard, nous sommes arrivee a Rainbow Beach, patelin balneaire relativement calme en raison de la saison. Le Backpack dans lequel nous avons debarque etait de loin le meilleur que nous avons essaye jusqu'ici, tout du moins "rapport qualite - prix". Propore, chambres carrelees, une salle de bain par chambre, un grand espace salon rempli de divans, une terrace sympa, le tout ... read more

Our flight from Hamilton Island to Brisbane was uneventful, and since we were flying JetStar, there was no fear about proper identification this time! We arrived in Brisbane in the late afternoon, and we took the SkyTrain from the airport. It was easy, and a good walk from Central Station brought us to our hotel - the Chifley. Considering we booked the hotel online, and got quite a good deal for right in the CBD, we weren’t sure what we were getting - but it was perfect! A hotel which caters to business travellers within walking distance to everything! When we arrived at the hotel, there was a message from our Fraser Island tour operator… after calling, I found that they were cancelling the 3-day Fraser Island trip, but had saved us two seats on the ... read more

Running away from Brisbane 23-29/06/06 Up early and finish the packing, then try to eat breakfast; the YHA, which has 165 bed spaces, is incredibly poorly equipped and has the grand total of three spoons in the kitchen, ten mugs, about the same number of bowls but, oddly, hundreds of knives. Stupidly we are on the porage today as we need the fuel for cycling, so while Vernon cooks the breakfast I stand next to two people who are eating cereal (and selfishly using 67% of the hostel's spoon supply) and as soon as they have finished I get their spoons and bowls off them. Stopping only to perform the same trick on two tea drinkers, I race back into the kitchen with my booty, wash it, dry it and jealously guard it until the chef ... read more

Sharks again? Nope..this is the main rule when dealing with Dingo Safety. We have made it to Fraser Island, home to Australia's most purebred dingo's. So far the East coast has kind of left us lacking in excitement. The surf is always good but it is just same same in every town. Crawling with all the flashpackers (our new word for fancy backbackers who bring heels and other fancy things) it is a bit uninteresting. So, we hopped over to Fraser in hope of an adventure. It is the first of our last 3 big ticket items in this trip and it was sweet! Imagine a giant sandpit for adults and kids and then you are half way there. Fraser Island is the worlds biggest sand island but the ecology is only one of the many ... read more

Hello again.......We are extremely sorry that it has been absolutely ages since blogging, you all must be getting fed up with waiting!!! The time over the past couple of months has gone at a lightening speed so we have fell well behind, but do not despair we will continue with our blogging and will be right upto date ASAP. When we last left you we were on our way to Hervey Bay. Well, after a 5 hour coach trip (with an idiot girl sitting behind us singing the 'La la la Long' song - our worst nightmare come true - yeah thanks to Inner Circle & 'Sweat'!!!) we arrived at 9pm. We were picked up by our hostel minibus. As we had an early start in the morning we sorted our bags out and got an ... read more