Blogs from Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
September 10th 2011
Well we're all packed, the house is almost clean and the taxi is booked for the morning....only 19hrs to go and we'll be on the plane!!!!!!... read more
September 4th 2011
Brisbane – Whale Watching Für heute unseren letzten Tag in Brisbane haben wir eine Whale Watch Tour gebucht. Pünktlich um 7:50 h werden wir von einem Bus mit aufgemaltem Wal vor unserem Hotel abgeholt. Nachdem wir 10 weitere Personen aufgesammelt hatten war der 21-Sitzer komplett voll und wir machten uns auf den Weg zum Hafen. Wale-watching beginnt im Bus. Unglaublich, was für dicke Leute es hier gibt. Am Boot werden Tee, Kuchen und Tabletten gegen Seekrankheit verteilt. Das Meer verspricht etwas rauher zu werden, aber - so die Kapitänin - da sind die Wale eh verspielter. Nach einer Stunde Fahrt die erste Sichtung, zwar kein Wal, aber eine große, grüne Meeresschildkröte. Weiter geht es, raus auf das offene Meer. Die Erwartungen werden nicht enttäuscht das Meer wird rauher, viel rauher: drei Meter Wellen, Sackerl bekommen Abnehmer. ... read more
August 20th 2011
Well it"s a while since I've updated this blog but now we're on the final countdown - only 3 weeks until we head off! I think we have just about everything organised - passsports, visas, medications, contact lenses, money, travel wallets........if only Contiki would hurry and send us our travel documents :/... read more
May 23rd 2011
Hi All, Welcome to the Travel Blog of Dan Trevarthen & Sarah Wadley. We will be updating this periodically over our trip and uploading a whole heap of photos and the occasional video. It's now one week til we leave and we are so bloody excited it's pretty ridiculous. Can't wait to board the plane and start an awesome 5 months. Stay tuned for our next post. Cheers, Dan & Sarah... read more
April 4th 2011
This is going to be the trip of a lifetime! Personally I think it's going to be torture waiting to leave and I'm sure the 6 weeks we're spending over there will feel like 6 minutes.... Anyway here's a rundown of our trip: We fly out on September 11 - what a day to fly to America huh? We spend our first two nights in New York doing our own thing before meeting up with a New York Contiki tour that goes for 3 days. Once that finishes we meet up with our second Contiki tour group for our Grand Northern tour. This tour goes for 25 days and goes through New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Quebec, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada ... read more
April 3rd 2011
The countdown has begun.....160 days till we leave for America!!!!!!!!! Spent 2 hrs in flight centre going over the details Saturday, just have to organise our passports and wait..... ... read more
September 5th 2010
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy itself has outsold the Encyclopedia Galactica because it is slightly cheaper, and because it has the words "Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters on the cover" Which is the of course the desktop wallpaper of choice on our Ipad, kind of like our Hitchikers guide. I'm sure the phrase "DON'T PANIC" shall come to mind from time to time and is in itself great advice, as I attemp to fit all the stuff which I need for the trip into my trusty Macpac. ... read more
September 2nd 2010
Well its Thursday, I'm on holidays and we spent quite some time today getting the last of our travel gear together. Carmen got some lightwight fleece pants and a jacket and I got a pair of shorts. Plus a travel clothes wasing kit and a combination lock with wire strap. I think we are pretty set now. So its full steam ahead to the wedding on Saturday then we fly out on Monday. All very exciting. This blog is a way of everyone seeing what we are up to while on the road. I shall also post updates on Facebook.... read more
August 14th 2010
With careful planning and phonecalls we were able to plan a Skydive for Kevin for his birthday. I never quite felt I got the sympathy vote as to how scary jumping out of an aeroplane was and how high up you fly to expereince the ultimate free fall. It was now his turn, he had often said that he would like to do a jump so his wish came true. It was a beautiful sunny day with clear blue skies giving 100% visability over Redland Bay and Kevin said he could see pods of dolphins and whales below in the sea. We lost sight of the plane as it soared higher and higher and could only spot him as his chute opened and he approached the ground at an alarmimg speed! A neatly executed landing on ... read more
Frisbee match and swimming in the dark!
Published: March 10th 2010Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Redcliffe
February 28th 2010
We drove out to Redcliffe quite early in the morning and stopped at a scenic viewpoint. We all got out of the car and while Dad and Richard were playing frisbee in the park, Sophie and I walked down the path and around the corner where we found a shipwreck on a beach. It was really cool, and I took lots of photographs of it. We then stopped a bit further down the town and got some lunch from a bakery. We went and sat on the seafront and had our lunch while we watched the sea. The sea was very rough thanks to the earthquake in Chile and the tsunami that had hit New Zealand. There were rough sea and strong current warnings in place and none of us were going to dare to go ... read more
