Blogs from Gladstone, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Caught up with friends and family. Boys went fishing at the Calliope River and at last they caught something, well Emerson did. Bev and Lester shared some pointers about traveling… apparently it’s going to be hot in Darwin!! Bev stocked our kitchen with fresh fruit and veg from their garden and homemade pickles and jams. Lester kitted up the car with the biggest mud flap I’ve ever seen. The car looks real tuff now. We took their advice and the recliner chair did stay at Gladstone and we bought more practical chairs. Sunday afternoon at the caravan park Emerson felt quite at home sitting with the grey nomads listening to some golden oldies live music. Bless him! ... read more

This is our very first entry into our travel blog! Horray!!! So very exciting! We have finalised all of our travel accomodation and flights and are super excited to go! We leave in less than 8 weeks... We fly out to Brisbane on the 10th December stay overnight in Brisbane and then head on to Los Angeles at midday on the 11th December. We have started to get out packing list together - as it is going to be cold!!! What am I looking forward to most - Disneyland!!!, New York and all the amazing art spaces and museums, Madame Tussauds, riding in a carriage through Central Park, doing a spot of celeb spotting, staying at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, shopping, seeing all the wonderful christmas decorations and christmas window displays in the department stores ... read more

Thursday April 9th/Friday April 10th- After turning in a paper on Thursday afternoon I packed for Heron island and what would become the first part of the best trip and 10 days I could ever imagine. I packed pretty light for the trip figuring there certainly wouldn’t be very much besides the Heron Island Research Station and the resort on the island. At 1130pm Seth and I headed from King’s to the main bus stop on campus to catch the bus which would take us to Gladstone (where the ferry is to go to Heron). The bus ride was complete misery. It gave me flashbacks to the Greyhound bus ride to St. Louis for a hockey tournament after my senior year of HS. The bus was cramped and the seats didn’t recline. To top it off ... read more

My final day in "Brisvegas" was a very satisfying sort-out day, which sounds dull, but if you know me well, you'll know the pleasure I get from sorting things out, writing lists etc. I went to see Slumdog Millionaire - great film, and good way to escape the humidity for a couple of hours. I also took a ride on the Citycat ferry and ran into Martha and Laurent (who I'd met, by design, in Sydney). The next day, I left a rainy Brisbane, heading for Noosa, where I spent a fairly uneventful couple of days. It was really too hot to do anything much - and actually it was Australia Day when I was there, so the town and beach was FULL of schoolkids enjoying their last day of freedom before term started again the ... read more

13th February 2008 The big storm has now passed but we are still having frequent showers. However, 30 degree rain showers do not seem too bad, they just cool you down a bit. There has been some flooding in the area and we saw some evidence of the floods where there was mud from the fields across the road. The first hundred metres of the sea is also turning a red colour as the earth from the land is washed into the sea by the small estuary near the campsite. We got up early today at 5-30am and after a cup of tea strolled up the beach. The public are not allowed onto the beach until after 6.00am when all turtle activity has finished. We could see the tracks of the Logerhead Turtles going up the ... read more