Blogs from Oceania - page 7086

Sunday May 28th and we leave Coral Bay with Bruno, Irene, Liz and David, all from Coffs Harbour, waving farewell. Our next destination is Tom Price and we drive through magnificent country during the day. Scenery changed from semi arid to beautiful green and red dirt and hills and big rocky outcrops. Just what we were waiting to see in the Pilbara. Came across plenty of cattle today including a few rather large bulls. John’s diary says they would each feed an army! The wildflowers are starting to appear and with the blue sky and the red dirt and rocks it was a lovely drive. Had to stop overnight so had our first night free camping at Beasley River. Tom and Val from Singleton were already there and shortly after our arrival Wayne and Jill from ... read more

So this is what this travel blogging thing is all about, storing all your fab travel stories on line for the world and your friends and family to see, no more writing 1,000 emails this is the place where everyone who subscribes will be able to see what I am up to when I start my adventure.....so thanks Yvette for introducing me to Travel Blogging..... So the reason Im setting up a travel blog is because in six weeks time my big adventure starts that I have been procrastinating and thinking about doing for the last five or so years. For some reason when I got back from Austria, all the stars seemed to align in a way that meant the timing was right now, a series of things, people changing lifestyles etc made me realise ... read more

Introduction This week the hikers were lucky enough to have a long weekend to explore a bit further than the Adelaide environs. It was Dan’s turn to pick which walk to do and he had been eyeing off this one in the Adelaide for kids book by James Muecke. It wasn't really a walk at all, but a visit to Mannum minerals, however we were able to couple it together with a few other walks and touristy things while we were visiting the Mannum area. Mannum is about 75 km away from home (as the crow flies) and on the River Murray. From Adelaide, you need to head east, crossing the Adelaide Hills, through Chain of Ponds, Gumeracha, Birdwood and Mount Pleasant. It is then a steep descent through the rocky slopes to the Gum-tree lined ... read more

Wed. June 7. Lost momentum yesterday with cold. Laundry and long sit in pub reading and dinner. Better today. Went to 'Save our Whales' demo at harbour. Twenty boats, 500 people, media. Out front before spruik. Sold two small flags to boat owners, one from Mooloolaba passing through going north. Older crowd. Stickers good. Drove to 1770. Lots of space here. Distant mountain, sweeping bay and a pub with no loo. Public ones in park opposite. Guy said that's 1770 which seemed to mean something. Keep you posted. Thur. 8 June. Warmer night, light rain. Spruiked at 1770 headland Joseph Banks Park. Two real estate guys got a large flag each!!! Drove to Rockhampton. Newspaper interview and pic. Story Saturday - editor willing. River with yachts. Fri. 9. Awoke Yeppoon heights. Spruiked very well. Girls from ... read more

In a nut shell Scott writes: I think we have just popped out of a Purple Patch with our travelling as the last couple of weeks moving up the east coast have been so good that we have to pinch ourselves just to make sure we were actually there. In a nut shell we have ragged a 4wd Suzuki Sierra around the largest sand island for three days; went sailing on a picturesque tall ship around the Whitsunday Islands and snorkelled on it’s beautiful fringe coral reefs; completed our four day PADI Open Water Dive Course in a small town called 1770 and then finally lived aboard a dive boat in Townsville for four days, completed our PADI Advanced Open Water Dive Course, did eight dives on the Great Barrier Reef and two on the largest ... read more