Blogs from Mission Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 19

Soede Caroline! Du grinede kaerligt til mig, da du spaendt sad ved siden af mig i stuen paa Bakkevej. Husker du, da jeg kontaktede Charlotte fra MyPlanet for lige at faa stykket det sidste sammen. Det var ret spontant, at jeg lige pludselig fik lyst til ogsaa at rafte i Australien. Hvorfor ikke? OK - gi' mig 1 stk. af den rafting tur var vist mine ord dengang midt i januar. "Mor det toer du altsaa ikke, er du da helt fra forstanden?", spurgte du. Jeg kan godt forstaa, at du som 17-aarig pige havde svaert ved at se din mor - og saa en kylling som mig - i susende fart, baglaens, forlaens og paa hovedet flydende gn. Tully-river, store sten og vandfald. MEN........................ skattepige. I've been there, seen this & done that. Og det ... read more

Our first Oz Experience trip. Once everyone had finished faffing around we met our bus driver - Shaun, boring, annoying, babbling Shaun. Not a great impression of our first bus driver! Our first stop was at a place called Atheton table lands to see a curtain fig tree. Which is pretty special but still quite boring. We found out once we were in there that we weren't supposed to be, as there were no foundations on the bridge we were standing on! Before lunch we stopped at Lake Eacham, took a 90 min walk around it but only saw trees, so just good exercise. At the same lake was a turtle viewing area. After lunch we went to a beautiful waterfall called Millaa Millaa Fall. We arrived at Scotty's and shared a dorm with Austine, Rebecca ... read more

Well, I did it. This morning at 11.30am I was collected from my hostel taken to an air strip, given 5 minutes training, flown to 14 000ft and then thrown out of an aeroplane! I have to say that for some reason I wasn't scared at all and loved every minute of it! It was such an amazing experience and I can't wait to go again. My instructor - Bruce (No I am not making it up he really was called Bruce) was really fun and has done an excellent DVD so you can all see for yourselves when I get back exactly what I went through. There was a 60 second freefall and then it took about 5 or 6 minutes to land on the beach. Amazing, breataking scenery over the reef and great views ... read more

had to get up stupidly early as we were being picked up at 7.35am to go rafting. still, it was totally worth it, rafting was ace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i never thought that i would enjoy it as much as i did, but we all had such an amazingly fun day! we went with a company called raging thunder who were brilliant. our guides (or whatever you call them!) were great, two blokes, vince (who looked an awful lot like a cross between vin diesel/sly/arnie) and baz (who was just pretty :)) who did everything they could to make sure we had oodles of super fun :) ah, slight twist, me, laura and sarah booked on to the normal rafting but somehow ended up doing the extreme rafting day!! eep! they told us after (thank god - think i ... read more

Slept in really late and then went to the supermarket and got stuff for a picnic on the beach which was lovely, and much better than the fake brie that we had the other day on Magnetic Island! The beach was also very nice (but obviously the food is more important and needs to be mentioned first). 14 km of (almost) deserted beach and we're right in the middle of it, so we spent a few blissful hours sunbathing, reading and picking shells on a long stroll as the sun went down. I saw more of those amazing star-like sand patterns like I saw on the beach in Broome and discovered that they're made by crabs - i.e. i had to wait for ages outside the hole and see what crawled out!! We had the "buffet" ... read more