Blogs from Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 9

Hallo Ihr, ich hab's getan! Ich bin aus 2,5km Hoehe aus einem Flugzeug gesprungen. 20 Sekunden freier Fall und dann *blobb* kam der Fallschirm. Unbeschreiblich! Das Ganze noch ueber den Whitsundays...traumhaft! Momentan stehen mir leider nur Fotos zur Verfuegung, aber in den kommenden Tagen wird auch ein Video ueber youtube.com einsegbar sein! :-) Ich will gar nicht viel dazu sagen...ich lasse einfach die Fotos sprechen. Liebe Gruesse nach Deutschland! Eure Uli... read more

We arrived in Airlie and went straight to the same hostel as before, Beaches (mainly because they have a $6.50 meal deal that is to die for; Steak and chips + a beer or wine). We were given the luxury room. Now I know what you're all thinking, 'there's no such thing as a luxury hostel', but for a backpacker, this room was to drool over; Two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a big shower, a couch, a fridge, and a television, (although the tv didn't actually work, it was more for show, but we didn't tell people that. By the end, I actually thought it quite rude of them to put a broken tv in our room, it was just teasing us). Anyway, all of this for just $20 a night. We were living like kings, and ... read more

Awesome sleep in a fantastic bed, and so far no spiders or snakes have tried to murder us. But we will remain ever-vigilant. We landed at Proserpine Airport where holy balls it is insanely hot (hottest weather we've had thus far). We met up with Ceanna Bawtinheimer and Ian St. Pierre, our two friends who were traveling through Fiji then Cairns before hooking up with us. After a joyous reunion, we piled into the car to drive to Airlie Beach, a tiny resort town that is the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitsunday_Islands). The Whitsundays are always on the Top 5 List for things to do when you get to Australia, so we plan on hitting those up tomorrow. We learned it is not wise to go into the water without a stinger suit as it ... read more

We left Yeppoon around 9am with the intention of driving to Mackay and staying there for 1 night. There were loads of roadworks on the way which added at least an extra 30 minutes to our trip. By the time we got to Mackay we'd been driving for almost 5 hours. We looked at a camp site but it was more expensive than we thought so we decided not to stay. There's not much to do in Mackay, so we stopped for lunch at Red Rooster and drove the extra 2 hours to Airlie Beach, where we'll now stay for 3 nights rather than 2. We saw quite a few bush fires on the way, but not a lot else! We drove along the Bruce Highway to get here. We've been driving on it since before ... read more

Halli Hallo, ertmal ein ganz großes Dankeschön an die Leute die das hier lesen! Ich hätte ja nicht gedacht, dass es so viele interessiert. Dumpel die dumm... ich dümpel so vor mich hin :) Die Regenwald tour war recht interessant! Ich haben jedemenge "Flying Foxes" gesehe die mit Ihren großen braunen Augen in den Bäumen hängen, habe Bäume bestaunt die über 60 Meter hoch sind und bin Lieanen hochgeklättert. Die Kanu tour war recht geil, da wir am Ende Steine aus dem Fluss gefischt haben, aus denen man eine Farbige Paste gewinnen konnte und uns damit gegenseitig und alles um uns herrum wild bemalt haben (Aborigines-Painting) In Cairns an sich hab ich dann ein Hostel gefunden, dass mich nur 15$/Nacht gekostet hat incl. Frühstück und freiem Internett. Dementsprechend bin ich auch fast 1 1/2 Wochen in ... read more