Blogs from Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 1319

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City May 25th 2003

Greetings from the land down undah I 2nd Liza's joy in response to all the new participants in Blog-Life. What a digital happiness it creates in my cyber heart. It is also quite hip that we are representin all over this fine planet. YO Eric, i think we are in the same time zone now, so we should celecrate somehow. but it sounds as though things are mighty fine for most of you(except liza who is either dead or ditching us). Glad to hear it(not liza's potential death but the goodness of ya'll). as for me, a few more days have passed...and i have been here over a week now.I have been playing lots of spots...as the guys around here are pretty competitive. So far it has primarily been basketball and volleyball...and this odd variation on ... read more

Australia Begins

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City May 20th 2003

Sharing a big jungle

Brad of the Jungle

AHOY MATES! Alas I have arrived on the other side of the planet. It was a long time coming and an even longer plane ride! But the wait was worth it...as now I am living leisurely in tropical weather with LAra. I arrived about 4 days ago...and have done a few cool things so far. First off though, I guess I will kind of explain the setup. I am staying with LAra in here campus dorms. She is going to James Cook University nearby. She has been in class for awhile and is fast approaching finals. The tricky part is that I am technically not allowed to stay in here room. The management is very tight with the budget and such..so they would much prefer me to shell out some dough. Of course being the cheapo ... read more

3 Months in Brisbane

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane May 19th 2003

Kangaroo

Ali

This is going to be a weird one - an entry that covers three months of my life, in one go. Time behaves strangely when travelling - the moments go so quickly, the stimulation of meeting and seeing so many new people and things. The differences in cultures that you're continually exposed to, the intensity of relationships that build up in only a matter of days. Its life at it's most concentrated. Two weeks can stretch out unimaginably. In the year since I left, I write this almost to the day, I feel that I have had more experiences both good and bad than in the rest of my life combined. I don't know if it is true, but if any one were to ask me to talk about myself, most of the material I would ... read more

Whitsunday Sailing

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Airlie Beach May 15th 2003

Sunsetting on another gorgeous day

Leebee

Leaving Airlie beach (the town that has no beach) in the morning on our vessel (the matador) the biggest racing yacht in the world!. We were lead into the Whitsunday islands off the coast of queensland by a pod of Dolphins at the front of the boat, amazed to see them everytime. We anchored at many points around the island but Whitehaven!! WOW unreal, probably the most idilic scenery i have ever come across, we alighted the yacht and explored the island finally settling on Whitehaven beach. Something to rival Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island, the most brilliant grainy white sand with fringing light transparent turquoise ocean, so clear and fresh looking i wanted to drink it. This is truely unreal beauty. I feel so lucky to have been here. Nature at its best, as we ... read more

Fraser Island

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island May 8th 2003

Red Sky at Night

Leebee

I have found my paradise. This is what i imagined travelling to be like whilst day dreaming at work in rainy grey London. The feeling of being here is overwhelming, i have had to scream on numerous occasions to vent my growing excitment whilst driving our group of 8 in the 4x4, something that caused the immediate wetting of pants of my passengers. Camping out on the beach setting up the tent over a beer and watching the amazing sunsets that lit up the whole sky in a blood red colour with friends was pretty special. After the sunset, we all sat drinking VB on a sand dune admiring the red sky when after about 1 hour there was a spectacular and unexpected moon rise!!! we were totally unprepared for this and i did'nt know they ... read more

Laidley Fruit Picking

Oceania » Australia » Queensland May 4th 2003

Tomatoe Picking

Leebee

Roughly 100km west inland of Brisbane. We basically decided to have a 2 to 3 weeks stop in order to rest, detox and replenish our bank accounts. We intended to stay here long enough for both of us to save around $1,500 each. We calculated that would equate to around 3 weeks work if we limited our expenses. WE QUIT AFTER 3 DAYS. Christ almighty, what a crap load of work. We basically had to crawl on our hands and knees in the middle of a damp field all day picking bloody tomatoes whilst struggling to keep up with the tracktors conveyor belt moving up the field at an irritating pace. I wanted to quit after 2 hours but Kev kept up the motivation with positive talk whilst i balanced it out with copious amounts of ... read more

Brisbane

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane May 1st 2003

Leebee

Ater 2 weeks of constant drinking and partying in Surfers we decided to come here to find work & de-tox. Our first night of de-tox consisted of 2 boxes (8 litres) of Stanley Wine on the roof of our hostel (Palace right in the middle of the city). Playing ring of fire. So much for not drinking. We found jobs beginning next week, about 200km inland in a farming town called Laidley, we will be embarking upon the profession of fruit picking!! tomatoes to be exact, so it was decided we will carry on getting p*ssed until then it was unanimous. yay!!. Brisbane is a small city. Good nightlife, sod all to do in the day. I much prefer Sydney. ... read more

Surfers paradise

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Gold Coast April 15th 2003

Club Crawl night 1

Leebee

Surfers Paradise!!, nothing like what you would expect of an australian town at all, more like benidorm! with its high rise blocks of flats & 10,000 bars All i did here was spend my days on the beach and nights out drinking. One of the best things the hostels do is they organise a huge club crawl night out with all the other hostels. Some pictures to follow...... read more

Klar til aa dra forhaapentligvis

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane November 19th 2002

moonwha

Vel, saa er alt pakket ned, visaene fikset, og billetten klar. I morgen reiser jeg til Bangkok. Ut paa landeveien igjen. Det er hundre smaating som boer ordnes foer avreise, men jeg er ikke helt klar over hvilke smaating. Jeg har naa da en filosofi da, og det at saa lenge du har penger, pass, og billett, saa ordner det meste seg. Og det gjelder ikke bare naar man reiser heller... ... read more

Australia: Queensland - south

Oceania » Australia » Queensland November 2nd 2002

Whitsundays at nightfall

Jos

Zaterdag Volgende etappe richting Airlie Beach alwaar een driedaagse zeiltrip staat gepland over de azuurblauwe wateren rond de Whitsunday Islands met hun witte stranden. Slechts 280 kilometer voor de boeg vandaag, dat is dat een rustig dagje. Maar nee. Na 80 kilometer begint er een lampje te branden in Mr. Turbo die nog niet eerder had gebrand. Snel beraad van het boekje leert dat er iets niet in de haak is. Toch maar proberen door te rijden tot een tankstation, anders sta je daar tussen de suikerrietvelden... Maar daar kwam de trein met geoogst suikerriet, zoals er door deze streek zovelen rijden. Dus maar even stoppen. Stank. Meer stank. Rook. Meer rook. Van onder de motorkap? Ja. De auto maar even de berm in sturen en uit zetten dan. De motor kookt. Pofferdikkie. Motorkap open. De ... read more

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