Where to Begin! Agnes Water/1770 It's been a long time since my last entry, sorry guys. A catch up is indeed required!! Right here goes! On the 10th July we caught the greyhound bus to the town of 1770/Agnes Water. The weather was great whilst we were there. we stayed for 2 nights at a hostel named 'Cool Bananas' and it was indeed really cool!I'd recommebnd it to anyone travelling there. The staff were great the dorms nice and spacious and clean and they do food for $5 every night and it was great food. The hostel is a 5 [View Full Entry]

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Off at last after so much planning and talking. Our first day out of Melbourne was wet and cold, but we arrived in Mildura without incident and enjoyed a meal in Stafano’s pasta place in the Grand. The weather was better the next day as we drove through a very green, undulating landscape - all the crops planted out and springing up in great emerald green expanses for miles in all directions. Renmark is a very smart, lush town - orange trees borne down with their crop everywhere. We had lunch (which we had bought at the smart Patisserie in Renmark) [View Full Entry]

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Since we had nearly a week's time to kill before classes started we started researching trips that were too long to do on a weekend but were short enough to do in the space we had. We really wanted to go to the Outback but airfare was much more than we had expected and we couldn't get a good deal because we were only booking our tickets one day in advance so our travel agent on campus suggested Melbourne. We looked into some of the tours and airfare was almost 1/4 of the price so we booked the trip on Monday [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys! So, I am officially sitting here, on the other side of the planet in my single at JCU Townsville. It’s actually awesome, my single here is only marginally smaller than my double at Stine…although the mattress and pillow they provided me with kind of smell funny and are a little damp…and I don’t have air conditioning (it’s the depth of winter here now, and its 70 degrees, I am perfectly comfortable in a t-shirt, summer is going to be brutal). I also have crazy limited internet access; I get 100 mb for the semester. If I go over I [View Full Entry]

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Day 4 Sorry no photos yet haven't been able to upload them. Today we woke up to sunshine and headed out to Hell's gate which is a natural thermal volcanic area. We walked round and saw all the bubbling mud, water and sulphur pools - it really smelt bad, rotten eggs!! Whilst there we indulged in a mud bath, the mud was from the thermal pools it was really soft and silky and we covered ourselves in it!! The lady then asked us to get out and follow her to the showers but what we didnt know was that they were [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone! It's my last day here in downtown Sydney, which is a little sad, but I'm extremely excited to move into my condo on campus tomorrow! And meet my 4 random/co-ed roommates who I am totally clueless about! Definitely going to be quite the adventure. Went out with a bunch of my friends last night to one of our favorite pubs where they have live music. They always play tons of American songs, and they really love the "Land Down Under" song by Men at Work, which is great, because I'm obsessed with that song too. Anyways, met the lead [View Full Entry]

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Tue 22nd July Another early start, as we set out for the 2nd day of our Kakadu tour. Amazingly, it seems to have been raining significantly during the night, and there is still a little rain when we awake. This is pretty much unheard of in the dry season - we are later told it has happened just twice in the guide's 6 years experience. Fortunately, the rain soon clears away... Today, we are heading out to Arnhemland, which is not strictly speaking part of Kakadu. It is an Aboriginal-controlled area, entrance to which requires a permit. We are picked up [View Full Entry]

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Today we went on a cruise to watch the Whales. After one hour sailing, we finally met some of them. They are pretty huge animals! Even if it was quite difficult to see them because it's not the kind of creature which go out of the water like dolphins (we saw a few). Anyway, we can see the whales on the videos I will try to upload, sorry for the quality of the image, the boat was moving a lot, and so was my target. Cheers! [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from down under. I have made it, can't believe I am actually here, me, in Australia. Its great! The flight was looong and shared with Fabio Capello (england coach) although in economy he was not! Arrived early in the morning and got through customs and everything. I then got a train to Epping, I think all the the trains are double decker which is great, didnt take very long to get to my stop and I headed on to where im staying - Jackies house. Jackies house is lovely and I have a really nice room, was soo tired and [View Full Entry]

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Nach langer Zeit endlich wieder ein EIntrag... Durch das ganze Reisen bin ich nie dazu gekommen! Also: Hab in Cape Tribulation (ganz im Norden) mein Paradies gefunden. Schoener gehts echt nicht mehr!!! Sonne Sand Regenwald und Meer. Und dazu Kokosnussessen, die man selbst frisch oeffnet. Sowas habe ich noch nie erlebt. Auch das SChnorcheln am Great Barrier Reef war der Hammer!!! So viele Farben - und erst wenn man mit einer SChildkroete geschwommen ist, weiss man was Eleganz bedeutet. Und Krokodile hab ich auch bewundern duerfen - bin zwar nicht mit ihnen geschwommen - aber cool wars trotzdem :-) Danach Flug [View Full Entry]

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