Blogs from 1770, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Holiday blog 2 rolls off the presses. Well let’s take a few minutes to review comments made by some local well known celebrities. Paul & Ian both commented on the pictures “where’s the breasts?” Brad & Vicki found it very informative and interesting however they didn’t recognise any of the towns from America!!!! Steve & Kath didn’t make any comment - get a computer; Rob and Wendy didn’t need to read it as they have been tracking us by satellite; and JAG is still jealous. Anyhow, back to our travels. Hervey Bay - made some great friends here at the local Post Office due to the amount of visits made to collect a parcel of spares required to repair our water leak, which we haven’t mentioned so we’ll not bother!!! Hervey Bay is a pleasant place ... read more

Ca fait un moment que je n'ai pas ecrit, donc je ne sais plus trop ou j'en etais. Donc plus ou moins, je pars de Pomona pour aller au village appele 1770 (Quand Captain Cook est passe par la-bas). Et arrive a Gympie, ma Louloute refait des siennes... pouf... le moteur ce coup-ci... donc des potes a Brisbane m'ont aide a trouver un moteur pas "trop" cher. Retour sur Brisbane, petit passage vers Lismore, dans un "koala sanctuary"... trop bon! Et une fois la voiture a nouveau d'applomb, a nouveau direction le nord... 1770, j'arrive. A mi-chemin, je m'arretes pour pose technique (a nouveau vers gympie)... et voila que Louloute se met a fumer dans tous les sens!! Bon... heureusement un autre backpacker qui s'y connait un peu en mecanique m'accompagne... on tente donc de reparer ... read more

Just made you say "under where". We are continuing our way north, along the coast and of course fitting in as much surfing as possible. We attempted a solo venture by renting some borads in the small town of Coulundra. The boards were a wee bit shorter than the ones we learned on, and lets just say we did not get as much "surfing" in as we did swimming. By then end of the day we had gotten the hang of it again, but were hungry, sore, and were in need of an icy cold beer. But now we're pros! We have spent the last three days in the Town of 1770, surfing the last break of the east coast. How sad! We almost didn't make it out today because of a little rascal called the ... read more

1770 - The only town to have a number for its name. We dropped our bags and headed out to find somewhere to eat. First impression very quiet! 24/01/10 We knew this was going to be a chilled out stop over and as I was happy to relax Rob booked himself in for his level 1 kite surfing trip. We went down onto the beach and watched the world go by. 25/01/10 As we are due to catch our first night bus we thought we should have a relaxing but busy day in order to try and sleep throughout the journey. We started by going on the free tour set up by the hostel. It was here we discovered why 1770 is so quiet - it costs 2.5 million AUD to buy a plot of land! ... read more

After spending all day yesterday wandering around Airlie Beach and swimming in the lagoon we took an overnight bus to Agnes Water. It was a tough bus ride but unlike Hannah I managed to get quite a lot of sleep during the 10 hour journey. Once we arrived in Agnes Water our hostel shuttle bus was waiting to take us to our accommodation down the road. Since it was somewhere we hadn’t originally planned to visit we didn’t really know much about this place, except that people kept telling us how good Scooteroo is. Scooteroo was a three and a half hour chopper tour around Agnes Water and The Town of 1770 down the road. We were unsure whether or not we really wanted to do it, but eventually we just booked it. For most of ... read more