Blogs from Kroombit, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Kroombit was a class little stop over curtsey of the Oz experience. It’s basically a working cattle farm which opens its doors to tourists who fancy themselves as a bit of a Jackaroo (the name of a young cattle hand in Oz). We pulled in to the smell of sizzling steaks which is always a good start in my book. Well fed and watered we were showed to our respective horses which we would be riding on for the coming goat muster. It was cool experience to trot off from the cattle station into the surrounding hills to herd up goats. There stubborn little buggers, stopping to eat anything in there path you have to be quite dexterous with the old reigns to make sure you get them all. As expected I got the arsey ... read more

I caught the Oz bus from airlie beach and was pleased to find that we had another cool bus driver called Stringer. We played dead bug bingo on they way to Kroombit, which is done by drawing up a grid on the windscreen of the bus, everybody putting in one dollar and picking a square in which their initals are written and whoever has the most splattered bugs in their square by the end of the journey wins all the cash. Needless to say by the end of the jorney i had never seen a cleaner windscreen in the section where my was, despite being surrounded by squished insects. We passed through Rockhampton on the way, which is a very strange place. Its main export is beef and so it's very into its cows, which is ... read more

So the drive to Kroombit prooved strenuous although we met a cool guy from Liverpool called Dave - talked bout footy, uni life, his friends...really down to earth guy considering the experiences he's had and was probably one of the most genuinely nice people we've met so far! Hope we meet him down in Sydney! At Kroombit we got straight into some food, attacking my vege soup and mush! Good stuff! The atmosphere there was really nice! We learnt how to whip-crack, which tok some time but i can now do it really well but only with my left hand?! weird?! then we had a go on the mechanical bull..i volunteered to go first as no-one else would and we could have just sat around for hours..stayed on for 11 bucks and ended up coming 3rd ... read more

Morning Scooteroo! Have license? Grab a helmet! See Agnes Water. I had another early morning pick-up in Hervey Bay. I was the first one to be picked up and therefore got to pick the best seat in the house with the most legroom! Whoohoo! Pickups lasted at least 30 to 45 minutes because there was so much stuff to pack in and repack twice because our driver Stretch kept forgetting to tell everyone to wear proper shoes because of our morning scooter ride in Agnes Water and Town of 1770. Eventually we were off and drove for a few hours with a few stops before coming to the town of Agnes Water. They predict this will be the next Byron Bay. I was a bit nervous hopping onto a scooter on my own. 1) Fear I'd ... read more