Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4345

The journey to Darwin was only 3.5 hours and on stepping out of the coach I could tell it was too warm and muggy for my liking. Darwin is the capital of Northern Territory, which was clear from the number of bars, restaurants and hostels nearby, the like of which I hadn't seen since Perth, though it's population is only about 100,000. I'd had a lot of trouble finding somewhere to stay in Darwin, and from Kununurra had phoned round every hostel in my guidebook before I finally found accommodation for my entire stay. One problem was that I'd originally only intended staying a day or 2 before heading out to a couple of the national parks, however various e-mails I'd received had indicated that a lot of people from earlier in my trip would be ... read more

WORK Today was our first day of work, and I was admittedly pretty stoked. We began on the hilly coast to the east of our caravans at like 8:00 am. It was very, very, cold, so I bundled up for warmth. Our job today was to weed out all of the non-native plants to make room for planting actual native grasses. Marcus pointed out a few to look for, so we began going through the brush to find and eradicate the weeds. Some of them were huge plants; I'm talking like actual trees. It seemed like a shame to cut down such large plants, but hey, if that's what they want me to do, that's what they want me to do. Everybody worked in pairs; the first person walked around with a small saw to cut ... read more

As I left Geraldton the clouds closed in for the first time in months. Then the heavens opened and it started to rain. Listening to the radio on the way down you would have thought it was Christmas. Farmers and the like were literally dancing in the streets as this was the first rain they had seen for years. Probably wasn’t appropriate for me to ask when it was likely to stop!! When it does finally rain in WA it really knows how to. Coming from the UK I’m used to driving in rain but this was something else. The roads aren’t designed to channel the water away and it’s all you can do to hold onto the car as you aquaplane down the road with visibility not much greater than the end of the bonnet. ... read more

it's been just a matter of days since the last blog though so much has happened, it's all quite exhausting - i somehow remember typing something to that effect previously though this whole travel buzz warrants a holiday and i suppose that is what i'm purposefully gonna do over the next week or so in sydney. Leaving Koh Samui was quite something, i think i have stumbled upon quite possibly the smallest international airport standing. Beauvais is Heathrow compared to it (Is beauvais still vertical with all those tremors??) THe flight to Singapore was as flights should be (without incident) and singapore itself is immediately inviting. The overwhelmingly sense you get when you walk down the street is one of such warmth and safety. The transportation infrastructure is paramount, the metro is practically door to door, ... read more

hallo ihr lieben....... melden uns nun mit neuen bilder aus australien u. noch ein paar von bali. sind nun in brisbain angekommen und wohnen gerade in einer 6 er jungen wg :-))))))) mit pool.....:-((((( leider koennen wir das mit dem schwimmen vergessen (winter 20 grad). haben die letzten drei tage auf fraser island verbracht.... der einzige ort in ganz australien, wo es keine kaengurus gibt....dafuer um soooooo mehr dingos.. keine witzigen kleinen huendchen...nein, ganz im gegenteil. letztes jahr wurden zwei kleine kinder von ihnen getoetet. wie ihr auf dem bild erkennen koennt... konnten wir die erste begegenung mit einem gestrandeten baby-wal machen. sorry...leider ein bisschen von den dingos angeknabbert. sonst alles tuti... haben die tage dort an noch geileren straenden als auf bali verbracht. trotzdem vermissen wir unseren party-ort ... dreamland-beach......transport-transport u... read more