Blogs from Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 4

After a long, tiring day’s travel from New Zealand we arrived in Cairns, Northern Queensland. This was the first time either of us had been to Australia so we were keen to explore the country and its culture. The first difference that we noticed from NZ was that the temperature was considerably higher. In NZ it had fluctuated wildly from high 20s degrees C to hailstones and biting winds. In Cairns it was still, balmy and warm. Later, we quantified this as a high of 32C daily with biting cold nights of 24C! (Ha Ha, we hope you are all enjoying November in the UK!) We had booked a couple of nights in a Lonely Planet recommended hostel and were taken there by a skinny, unintelligible taxi driver with long, unfashionable, New Zealand hair. It ... read more

Day 34, 15/10/11 Today I had a lovely lay in and woke up not knowing what to do for the next few weeks. I have decided I plan to reach Cairns asap, hopefully within the next 2-3 weeks. That way I will have finished everything I have booked so far and I can stop for a month or so to work before heading south (probably Melbourne) for Christmas. That's the plan anyway but they seem to change quite a lot when your here. I am heading off to Airlie Beach today with a one night stop off at a town called 1770 just to break up the 17 hour coach journey. Once at Airlie Beach we will do The Whitsunday Islands. After I was all set on my plans we headed for the beach in the ... read more

So after staying in Alice Springs for a week I headed back to Brisbane with the intention of staying for two days..... This turned into a week as soon as I heard about the Riverfire festival happening on the next Saturday. This is part of the Brisbane festival and there are fireworks set along the river and from the tops of the tallest buildings along the river. It was well to be expected :D Between landing in Brisbane and leaving I didn't really have a lot to do. I met a group of nice English guys and girls who were working and staying at the hostel. I had brought a guitar in Alice and we spent most of the time playing with it. One day I did visit Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary with Matthew (a boy ... read more

Heute morgen machten wir einen kurzen Abstecher an die Sunshine Coast. Normalerweise ist hier der Name Programm, allerdings nicht an diesem Tag. Da es anfing zu regnen, viel unser Strandspaziergang am Sunrise Beach etwas kürzer aus. So machten wir uns weiter auf den Weg zum Rainbow Beach. Dieser Ort ist einer der Ausgangspunkte für die Fährüberfahrt auf Fraser Island. Auf der Fahrt dorthin wurden wir Zeuge eines in Deutschland seltenen Schauspiels. In Australien gilt generell eine Höchstgeschwindigkeit von 100 km/h, eigentlich auch für LKW. Im Rückspiegel konnten wir beobachten, dass dennoch ein LKW, ein bereits mit 100 km/h fahrendes Auto, mit 120 km/h versägte. In Rainbow Beach angekommen, entschieden wir uns für eine 2 Tagestour auf Fraser Island. Jürgen handelte noch einen „Good Price“ heraus, als es auf einmal anfing zu hageln. Ein kurzer Hagelschauer, der ... read more

We travelled from Airlie Beach via the town of 1770 (which is soooo boring!!) before arriving in Rainbow Beach. Small town (again!) but quite nice to be able to chill out here as the last few weeks have been none stop drinking and partying!! We are staying in Rainbow beach before heading to Fraser Island to do a 3 day tour of self guided 4wd!! So exciting! After spending the next day on the beach before our briefing, we had another early night and got up early for our Fraser tour to behind! The tour is 8 cars, each with approx 7/8/9 people in each. We are Team A (of course!) with 7 people altogether! We headed for the ferry which took 10mins over to Fraser Island. Fraser is the worlds biggest sand island, literally nothing ... read more