Blogs from Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 1214

We've taken the car back to Sydney and the guys at CITY CAR MART took it back at the agreed price on the buy back deal. Great service from these guys, we bought an old (common in Oz, cars don't rust here!!!) car, but a good runner, didn't use any oil or water during the 12,000 k of touring Australia. We will thoroughly recommend these guys to anyone considering travelling through Australia and thinking of purchasing a car, van or 4 wheel-drive. It was a very quick trip to Sydney; we hadn’t left ourselves enough time!!! We drove 840k on Tuesday, leaving only 120k to drive next morning which meant we were late looking for somewhere to kip in Tues night. We tried the holiday park at Morriset, but this was full as was the local ... read more

Only 2 weeks left of working here in Queensland. Anna and I can't wait to travel. We have figured out everything :) It'll be really great. Here's a rough list of where we are going to travel to: - Fraiser Island for a 2 day 1 night camping excursion - Fly to Cairns to see the great barrier reef...go scuba diving, skydiving :) and other fun stuff - Fly to Alice Springs (the middle of the desert) and go on a 4 day, 3 night camping trip in Uluru around Ayres Rock with a bunch of other young backpackers :)...that should be really awesome, camping in the outback..fun times :) - Fly to Adelade (south) and drink some wine....supposed to be great there. - Fly to Melbourne and visit Harriet...my roommate from the first half ... read more

Im just going to put the pictures up for now and write in the blogs later... im off to New Zealand next week * June 17* for 10 days and then Fiji :) so hopefully i can update it again soon :)... read more

8th june We were travelling up the coast by Greyhound bus- a hop on hop off type thing. Spent the day travelling to Agnes Water which was close to a place called Seventeen Seventy we wanted to visit. Arrived that eve with no hostel they were all booked up!! Managed to get a motel for the 4 of us which turned out to be better value anyway. 9th june We did the Scoooter Roo Tour! A tour around the area on scooters!!! Was great fun- about 30 of us on scooters!!! A girl fell off and badly grazed her face- silly girl had never been on one before and didnt accept the offer of how to drive it!!!! Drove to a pub to collect wedges where we sat by the beach and watched the sunset which ... read more

Brisbane was completely different then i thought it would be. Its a big city... but nothing really appealed to me. We were only there for a day and a half so i couldnt really give it a fair chance but nothing stuck out to me. They had a lagoon there like many of the major citys not on beaches along the east coast. We went to markets and just walked around it was kinda nice. We were staying in what would have been a nice hostel if we werent in a room with 8 people that were actually living in the hostel. the room was an absolute mess, multi share, so boys tend to be messy too... it just wasnt the nicest of rooms ever. and i was sick and trying to get to sleep and ... read more