Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4304

Apres ces trois jours intenses au Kakadu National Park et une journee de repos bien meritee (oui, c'est dur de voyager), nous avons repris la route vers l'ouest. After our wicked trip to the Kakadu NP and one day rest, is was time to head west to Western Australia! see below for the english version Premiere tache, redescendre vers Katherine, pour piquer a l'ouest via Kananurra (ou nous avons fait une petite croisiere de trois heures sur le Lake Argyle, le plus gros reservoir d'eau potable d'Australie), Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek et Derby. Qu'a-t-il bien pu nous arriver d'interessant en chemin??... Plein de choses! Dont les "bushfires". Je ne m'en cacherai pas, j'etais comme une gosse emerveillee prete a sautiller dans tous les sens. J'ai du prendre 4 ou 5 mini films des feux. It's AMAAAAAZING!! ... read more

and so it begins......... both of my flights on the way out here were awesome!!! soo good to relax and catch up on some much needed sleep:) i missed the shuttle that was supposed to take me to newcastle so i got to find my own way here, hehe. i caught a train from central in syney which was great cuz i got to see tons of sweet grafitti and cool old buildings...wish i could have taken pictures but i will dedicate a weekend to that for sure! so yeah, haven't seen any crazy spiders yet...thank god...but i did get ambushed by a possum!! so funny, i had just opened my door and this big furry thing dropped down into the tree in front of me...scarred the shit out of me!!! you're probably wondering what the ... read more

Day 62 Coral Bay to Carnarvon 30/08/06 As we had to be at the Shopping Centre by 8.30am for the ‘Quad Bike Tour’, we were awoken at 600am by the alarm clock. We got out of bed straight away to find the tent was wet from extremely heavy dew. We quietly dressed, ate breakfast and began the pack-up. As I wanted the tent as dry as possible before we collapsed it (dried by the sun), we didn’t drop it until 7.55am. After tying the bikes on the front box, we drove across the road and parked in the trailer parking bay. Once at the tour shop, we were fitted out with helmets (we took our own snorkels & masks) and taken to the bikes. The boys had chosen the particular quad bikes they wanted the previous ... read more

Day 55 Onslow to Exmouth 23/08/06 As we had had such a big day yesterday, we slept in until about 7.30am. We got up, had breakfast and packed up. We walked down onto the beach and had a look around before driving back into town. We then drove out to the Onslow Salt works and had a look at the conveyor system they use to transfer the salt to the ships. After having a look at Sunset and Four Mile Beaches we drove back into town. After Leanne phoned Melbourne to check on her mother, as she had been admitted to hospital, (Marie is okay and on penicillin) we headed back out to the Highway and south toward to Exmouth. We arrived back at Nanaturra at 11.50am, where we refueled ($183.9 Lt) and had lunch. After ... read more

A self explanitory title After five lazy days in Bowen, we drove 140km south to Airlie Beach. Arlie beach is a jumping restort town, despite its name is has NO beach...mmn...but a huge lagoon -or- swimming pool as we know know it. Backpackers arrive by the coach load to seek the beautiful Whitsundays Islands, beaches, sailing, and boozy doo's. Unfortunately the weather was bad for the first five days we where there, so we camped in a car park :o/ for the duration until the gail force winds and rain had passed... It was during this time that we felt obliged to visit every pub and club at least three times, met loads of sound people, and partied the nights away. We booked a three day tour of the Whitsundays on a huge Catamoran called 'Wings' ... read more