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December 17th 2005
Good afternnon everyone...and a happy +30C, sunny although its a little humid...Sorry, I have heard how great the weather is there...LOL... To bring you todate... Monday morning we left Cairns and bused our way to Airlie Beach, about 11 hours south. It wasn't bad, slept most of the way, nice senery of the country, it was interesting to see signs stating "flood area ahead, measurements ahead" and then drive past signs 2 meters high. We arrived in Airlie at 7pm checked in slept some more. 8:30 the next morning, we boarded the "Derwent Hunter", an ECO Tall ship in which we travelled the ocean for 3 days and 2 nights. It was amazing. The weather we awesome, nice and warm. The first day we had great sailing conditions, we stopped at Chance bay, swam in the ... read more
December 17th 2005
13th December 2005 Hiya Folks, We decided to go for the day to the Blue Mountains. So after a a small breakfast we set off for Kings Cross Station, just minutes walk away from the Hotel and bought 2 return tickets to Katoomba. Sounds like something out of the Lion King that song, what was it? "Hakuna matata" thats it ,well this is Katoomba Matata. Anyway the ticket included a bus tour as well a sort of hop on, hop off arrangement. The train left at 11 am and so we set off through all the outer suburbs of Sydney, the trip took just over 2 hours and it stopped at some very curious stations "Emu Plains" for example, I kept imagining that Rod Hull would appear at any moment with the bad tempered bird under ... read more
From the Great Ocean Road to the Murray River
Published: December 17th 2005Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne
December 17th 2005
It was 34 degrees when we landed at Avalon airport near Melbourne. From the air Victoria looked quite flat and dry and we had an extremely hot drive into the city. We dumped our bags at our backpackers on Elizabeth Street and set off for a walk to the visitor info kiosks, which we are now regulars at in every town, and picked up some brochures about Melbourne. Dinner was at a noodle bar near our guesthouse before crashing into bed, only to spend most of the night fighting to keep our ear plugs in with some very noisy neighbours in the dorm next door... Next day we woke to grey skies and torrential rain! Just our luck when Lisa had planned to take Keith walking the length and breadth of the city. So we opted ... read more
Visiting friends in Auckland
Published: December 29th 2005Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland
December 17th 2005
This was the second time in Auckland for Kirsi and third time for Sami so we had already seen most of the city. We stayed with Ally and Phil and for a couple of days spent some "normal" everyday life including cooking your own meals, doing some exercises and helping with house works. This was a pleasant change after almost four months of traveling, eating at restaurants, living in hostels and not doing any excercises. One day we went to Rangitoto island, which is Auckland´s youngest volcano. The city is surrounded by tens of old volcanoes, Rangitoto being the latest to erupt around 250 years ago. The island is just 20 minutes ferry ride from the city, but the scenery changes more than you´d imagine. We walked to the summit of the volcano and walked through ... read more
December 17th 2005
Hotel Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island (dag 2 af 2). Heldagstur med 4WD: “Ranger Eco-Tour of Fraser Island” (8-17). Dagen tilbringes i 4WD-bus, som bringer os rundt paa den svaert fremkommelige oe, der er verdens stoerste sandoe paa ca. 15 km. i bredden og mere end 100 km. lang. Som foer en flyvetur gennemgaar vores guide bussens sikkerhed. Som hun siger "der er en grund til, at der er gulvtaeppe paa bussens loft". Vejenes standard er "interessandt" og naar bussen saetter i gang, udsaettes vi for en voldsom gyngetur - det er pludselig klart hvorfor, alle skal have deres sikkerhedsseler spaendte. Flere gangeundervejs maa guiden ud og flytte traeer, foer bussen kan komme videre af de smalle veje lige gennem den taette regnskov. Efter en times koersel naar vi den modsatte bred, hvor foerste ophold er ... read more
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To the North Island for our final adventure!!!
Published: December 17th 2005Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland
December 17th 2005
We only have five days left!! I can hardly believe it's almost over! We are now on the North Island of New Zealand. We took a ferry ride from the south and through the Marlbourough Sounds, it was a very scenice boat ride to say the least. Then we did a one way transfer rental car from Wellington to Auckland which is about an 8-9 hour drive so here we are. Tomorrow we are heading out to Waiheke Island for our last 4 nights here and then home we go. I think last time I left off at the Franz Josef Glacier. From there we headed north up the west coast and stopped over in a town called Punakaiki. If you haven't noticed already, many of the towns in New Zealand seem pretty foreign and hard ... read more
December 17th 2005
New Zealand Countdown I'm making the final run through on my travel equipment, internet access, etc. If you recieve this e-mail you are on my travel log e-mail list. Please let me know you recieved this entry and if you want to continue to be on it. Also for more info you can visit my website at: http://home.earthlink.net/~parsons00. Choose New Zealand by Bike. All this cold is making me long to be on the plane heading to the southern hemisphere. Lisa Backcountry Adventure Girl Just a tantalizing photo of possible destinations. ... read more
I aint doing no snorkellin' fool!
Published: December 30th 2005Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Shark Bay
December 17th 2005
OK, so before I start with the story, I'd just like to mention a bit about the title. Because there are so many gorgeous beaches here, and the water is teaming with wildlife, everyone encourages you to go snorkelling. However. I'd like to advise that at no point during our trip, will I be doing any sort of swimming in the open sea or snorkelling, due to my incredible ''might be sharks in the water'' phobia. Alan might go in for a lirrle dip, but not moi. Anyway - lets crack on with the blog...... ......Heading further up the East coast of WA, our destination Shark Bay Heritage Park, we stopped for a light refreshment at a town called Carnarvon. We wanted to check the place out as a potential stopover point for a few days ... read more
Broke Down, Stinky Land and Tramping
Published: January 25th 2006Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Taupo
December 17th 2005
Hello all you intrepid readers of Benji and Abby's blog. Here is the latest installment from the travelers. First off an apology from Benji: There are no stories about the cute kids I let you all down:( Okay now where have we been let's see: Well we tried to leave Tauranga the last location that we updated the blog from, only to find that Benji had leftthe lights on and killed the tiny battery that was in our van. We expected this would happen sooner or later so we quickly hopped in a cab and made3 it to an auto parts store just before closing. We purchased the correct size battery for our van and headed across a bridge to a little town called Mt. Marangui (actually a suburb of Tauranga). This town turned out to ... read more
December 17th 2005
Having consumed half of the Australian beer stock at the BBQ last night we decided to have a fairly lazy day today so took a stroll around the town to look at the car garages and what we could potentially buy for our money. THere were a few nice cars, although a bit out of my price range so we retreated to The Flying Scotsman pub for the hair of the dog breakfast and to consider our options. We have decided if we are to buy a caqr we will wait until the new year as we are likley to have had to much to drink on most days to get behind the wheel of a car anyhow. Generally public transport (Indian-Pacific excluded) seems to be quick, clean, cheap and efficient so we may just use ... read more
