Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4338

so little time to settle down for your update... before flying to cairns we spent our dat at UNSW. it turned out to be foundation day. an occasion uni students have found to appreciate fine liquor during the chilly days of winter. needing to pack some gadgets from the lab for our trip Clement was able to introduce us to Joe Wolfe. hIs exploits had already made their way to us.Niko wanting to gamble once more his life, decided to give Joe the power to take away. so off we were to the physics' game room, where the instrument was waiting. 2 boards of wood. each a meter wide. all 9000 nails where there. erected up to a frightening 10 cm. all pumped up from the adrenaline niko couldnt wait any longer. layed down on the ... read more

Hi All I know what you're thinking, no blogs for weeks and then two in a fortnight. Don't worry, this is just a quickie to bring the story up-to-date so if I were you I'd save it for Friday afternoon when you need to look busy. As you probably guessed from the cheesy title of this instalment, I've left the warm weather behind and am now in wintery Oz. After a lovely, relaxing and very expensive 10 days in San Francisco (my credit card is now on life support!) where I caught up with my mum and some old family friends I flew to Melbourne on 20th July (arriving on 22nd July having crossed the dateline and completely missed the 21st!) and got back into proper travelling mode. Melbourne bills itself as the 'loveable, liveable city', ... read more

Yay lucky us , We get to stay in Cairns for a month, There is a fair amount of stuff to do in Cairns eg; The lagoon in the heart of town , The Coffee Club is on the Esplanade , Shopping Malls, ( good if you are going bush ) , and as i write Jo is consulting the Diary to help my fantastic memory, Here we go she reminded me we were hassled for parking the first night there... warning danger Will Robinson... Travellers ...Lock them up , The Cairns Council are the sole owners of all the caravan/trailer parks, and we are not going to stay in them!! Threaten us as they did!!! We arrived on my birthday and we celebrated at our favourite Mexican Restaurant MONTEZUMAS... We spend our money where we ... read more

well from airlie i booked my yongala dive.this is supposed to be one of the ebst dive sites in the world and somethign that i had been looking forward to for soooo long.those that know me know abou me n my diving...anyways booked it all up n have jumped back on the oz experince cos was able 2 get an awsome deal..and so they were guna drop me off in ayre to do this awsoem dive..so all was going along swimmingly, until was dropped in ayre n know1 had got hold of me to tell me that it had been cancelled for 4 days!!!!!!!!! arrgggg...n let me tell u wot u can do in ayre for 4 days..BUGGER ALL-quoted from reception lady at my hostle..damm...get me out of this hole were my thorts..anyway luckily was able ... read more

Today shall be interesting. Ive managed to meet up with 3 canadians. 2 from calgary and one from vancouver. I will be working with the two from calgary at the same location for the next few weeks. Anyways, today is my birthday a local from melbourne, myself, guy from vancouver and a english guy are all going to the home of steve erwin...gonna check it out...I havent done a lot of "tourist" stuff. Im really stingy with my money! I dont know why but I guess having a lot of cash is my security blanket. Ill post pics later! Bye!... read more