http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Queensland , Townsville en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:15:52 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:15:52 UTC Ce matin on a visit un peu la ville de Townsville. Ici il y a le plus gros et plus beau parc drsquoeau pour enfants qursquoon nrsquoait jamais vu Les enfants taient ravis Puisque crsquotait samedi matin il y avait plein drsquoenfants au parc drsquoeau. Pendant que les enfants srsquoamusaient au parc je me suis promene un peu et jrsquoai vu des affiches qui faisaient honn http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-350064.html 3er BlogNuestro ultimo dia en Brisbane lo dedicamos a pasear desayunar comprar deportivas y chanclas por el centro en Queen street y recorrer el rio en los catamaranes de alta velocidad que los locales usan como medio de transporte.Por la tarde fuimos a recoger la Caravana una enorme furgoneta mercedes adaptada a caravana con todos los extras Ducha WC agua caliente cama aire acondicionado entre http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-348909.html We left Mission beach after 5 days and headed south to the large town of Townsville. We had hoped to find work there however there was very little on offer and not much going on in the town. Whilst in Townsville we began calling around and eventually managed to find some farm work 40 minutes south. As they only needed 2 people to begin with me and Kirsty decided to go for it and the others would http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-345153.html Hello all. Since last time I wrote I haven't done too much worth writing about except the Rugby League World Cup has started. Luckily the first game of the Cup was being played at Townsville's Dairy Farmers Stadium. It was PNG vs. England and although the stadium wasn't even close to being full it was a good chance for me to learn the game. England ended up winning which most of the Aussies di http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-344206.html 12.58 Saturday October 15 2008Well so much for my attempts to explore yesterday. Lets put it this way I now know the internet caf and the pub across the road like the back of my handhellip if you can call that exploring then Irsquom the Christopher Columbus of Townsville. Ended up with some older people at the pub drinking beer and talking sport. A subject I know next to nothing about. There http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-338172.html The debate may never end as to the best way to see the East Coast buy a car rent a car rent a campervan hitch or get the bus. There is no doubt that you own wheels give total flexibility but the reliability or lack of it with some of the wrecks on offer in Cairns doesnrsquot make it a lot of financial sense or fun. We played safe and bought a hop on hop off bus ticket to Sydney a mere http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-338034.html 14.02 Thursday October 23rd 2008Irsquom sitting in my economy berth on the Sunlander train. Irsquove got the whole cabin to myself which really suits me for the moment but may get a bit lonely later. The outer suburbs of Brisbane are sliding by lazily and yet way too fast simultaneously. In fact there goes Burpengary so I guess Irsquom about to leave Brisbane very soon and start this mad http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-337873.html Hello againI have arrived in a little place called Townsville after travelling for around 14 hours on a coach. The driver asked me at the end of the journey if I had been hybernating because I actually slept for the entire journey Not sure if that was because of the hangover of the exhausting week that id had...Friday day was amazing I have another rather large bruise covering my left knee whic http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-335913.html Well its been a while but I have a day off donrsquot feel like doing homework so I can type for a bit. Classes started a few months ago and im taking a rainforest populationscommunity class intro to GIS and doing my literature review for my project next semester. It seems like the same as last semester tons of work. Before classes started Crystal and I had a marine animal behaviour block http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-333374.html Hello all. Hope everyone had a good weekend. I had an awesome weekend. Friday was a little low key we stayed home and had nachos and beer and watched the footy on tv. The reason for our quiet friday was because saturday was packed full of things to do. JP went to work till 11 and then we went to the Billabong Sanctuary just 17km outside Townsville. It was fantastic. We made it just in time http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-328797.html This week has been hard on the little Canadian girl. The weather is getting warmer and with JP's sister home her and I have been doing the work out thing everyday. The two things seprately wouldn't be a problem but together they almost killed me. The first day we got out and about we went for a massive bike ride. It took us about two hours to do this trail and as the day went on and the sun go http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-328013.html So far Australia has been very kind to me. We've been having fantastic weather since coming to Townsville. It has been about 29 everyday and the humidity is still not bad since it's not quite summer yet. I've taken full advantage of this by sitting out on the balcony with my book most days taking the dog for walks and of course going down to the beach for a swim. Everyone keeps telling me tha http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-325108.html After 36 hours of flights and airports I was relieved to finally be in Australia. I flew into Cairns which happened to be a bit rainy and met up with JP who informed me that we already had plans to meet up with some friends for lunch. So I didn't change or shower just hopped in the car and was off exploring Cairns. We walked the streets in between rain showers and checked out the restaurants http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-322937.html Bin mit dem Greyhound von Mission BEach nach Townsville. Der groessten Stadt austrlaiens noerdlich des Wendekreises des Steinbocks.Ich find die stadt nicht so schoen bis jetzt. cairs fand ich besser. das hostel ist auch nicht unbedingt das tollste aber dafuer siehts mir meinem job auf den whitsundays ziemloch gut aus freu...vermiss euch alle schon win wenig.morgen fahr ich vllt. nach magnetic http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-317078.html We spent the morning on the beach enjoying the Australian winter weather and after lunch left the pikey campsite and headed on towards Townsville. It was quite a drive and we arrived in the late afternoon just in time to purchase some supplies and book our ferry to Magnetic Island on the following day.The tourist centre had provided us with free camping information and we headed off to a nearby si http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-315192.html As most of you probably know I am going on my European trip very soon. I actually leave home on Sunday afternoon and come back a whole eight weeks and a bit later. I've cancelled the paper set the video to record all my shows very important and started to think about packing my bag.For those out there who aren't in the loop on my itinerary I'll give a quick rundown. On Monday I fly to http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-314771.html Endlich mal wieder was von mir Sorry dass es so lang gedauert hat. In Townsville hatte ich meinen 2. Job angefangen als Housekeeper klingt besser als Putze im Yongala Lodge Motel. Kein schoener Job ziemlich harte Arbeit aber war ne Erfahrung hoffentlich nicht so schnell wieder.Die Bezahlung war ziemlich gut 18h so konnte ich mir dann mein 1. eigenes Auto leisten juhu Gab zwar einige http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-312963.html Hey guysSo I am officially sitting here on the other side of the planet in my single at JCU Townsville. Itrsquos actually awesome my single here is only marginally smaller than my double at Stinehellipalthough the mattress and pillow they provided me with kind of smell funny and are a little damphellipand I donrsquot have air conditioning itrsquos the depth of winter here now and i http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-304560.html 5th July Reef Aquarium One of the main reasons we came to Townsville was to visit the Reef Aquarium recommended by the Lonely Planet guidebook. We were a wee bit dissapointed with it. It was interesting and they had lots of fish but 'Lucky T' the sea turtle must have been feeling ill that day as he wasnt at home After the aquarium we wandered along the coast through the Anzac Memorial G http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-298224.html The next stop was Townville I arrived by the time I got checked into a hostel first 2 were full it was getting late. I met a couple of girls here looking for a hostel spend the following day walking up Castle Hill around the shops. Townville was a nice placed huge compared what I was used to being in Bowen. I left that night at 1230 AM on a night bus to Cairns. Only 1 week until I leav http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-296340.html Well it's my last day at work I have 5 hours 20 minutes remaining and I now have a capable 4x4 to travel across Stralia.Our intrepid group of adventures plan to leave at 8am from Townsville and return about four weeks later with the turn around point being Kalgoorlie. Not much to report yet except to show off my pimped out rig. http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-295053.html june 18 another day same carpark. more better still. finally at 1 pm said to a bloke as i stuck sticker on his car that i'd been lucky not to be told to leave when centre manager cme up and did it. oh well. i'd had enough anyway. tomorrow northwards.june 19 markets in center of maryborough. one bloke got four handwavers for his shop. cheap veggies. went north stopped childers for two hours. on http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-293471.html Unfortunately things have not gone to smoothly for us we have been 3 weeks and more stuck here.Today finally the shaft is being put back and hopefully we will be in the water tomorrow morning.....this is happening as I am writing this entry so we won't know but I can say that is looking very promesing.Last weekend we packed the car and with the boys head north of Townsville all the way to Missio http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-289116.html After farewelling our hosts we went via Horseshoe Bay and Queens Bay up to the lookout at Flagstaff Hill in Bowen. Great 360 degree views and perfect weather. After arriving in Townsville and meeting our host Corina HC she took us down to the strand where we spoilt our appetite with cold rock icecream and strolled along the esplinade. She also took us up Castle Hill to take in the views of t http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-283871.html Just an update of what's going on...... http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-283634.html After spending a couple of days in Bowen the capital of the mango unfortunately it was not the season for them we sailed into Townsville marina and enjoyed city life for a few days were we celebrated my birthday again.Now we have been in Rossheaven Marine for a week were we have put Spirit of Ozz on the slip to clean and paint the hulle as usual not everything goes as plan Rex has found http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-282351.html So since beer prices are so high the great alternative that we came up with is brewing beer at home ha and some of you were thinking we would stop drinking. Well our first batch was a simple lager and it came out really good surprisingly. The next beer that we brewed was closer to a hoppy red and now that it has matured a little longer it tastes pretty good. Fermenting right is our first hef http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-281351.html G'day guysWell had another good few days which were a bit more laid back. So the day before yesterday we got a 6 hour bus journey to a place called Townsville. The bus journey wasn't too bad actually. Haha the bus drivers wear these really funny uniforms here with shorts and knee high socks. The Aussies are all extremely friendly...even the bus drivers But I guess driving a bus down coastal r http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-277048.html FRANCAIS29Apr2008 to 03May2008 Retour a TownsvilleApres avoir dit au revoir a nos parents il nous restait une semaine a passer et profiter ensemble avant de prendre 2 chemins un petit peu differents pour les 2 prochains mois. On a repris une vie de backpacker plus modeste camper dans la nature... ce qui a ses restrictions mais aussi de belles recompenses.A Cairns il faisait tellement chaud http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-272949.html FRANCAIS03Apr2008 to 28Apr2008 Road Trip en familleNotre grand voyage a commenc il y a plus d'un mois maintenant depuis que l'on a quitt Sydney. On a pass 2 jours rapidemment Canberra pour obtenir notre visa pour la Russie et on l'a obtenu Le reste du voyage tant scuris maintenant on tait prt accueillir nos parents. Aprs 2 jours passs montrer la ville et les plages du Nord de http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-272089.html