Blogs from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 6

Geo: -27.4676, 153.028We wake this morning at 4.30 am, it's still dark and a mild 18.5 degrees. We are waiting for our old friend and Uber driver John Hare to catch a lift to the airport. Checking our luggage to Ayers Rock Airport we depart on the first leg of our journey to Sydney on time at 7.00 am. So far a good start to our epic Planes, Trains, Auto-mobiles, and a few Boats adventure through Central Australia and the Northern Territory.... read more

C: Our flight arrived into Brisbane in the evening and after our airbnb host kindly collected us from the airport we headed out to explore what the city had to offer. It was really busy, very different from NZ cities, people everywhere. We found the main shopping street and a nice square dominated by the impressive city hall. After a bit more of a wander we came back to the square for a drink and a plate of an Aussie signature - potato wedges with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce. if you haven't had this, try it, it's great. We only had the one night in Brisbane and our flight away was just after lunch so we got up early to spend the morning in the city. We walked across a quite impressive bridge to ... read more

As we approached the last 60 kilometres into Noosa the scenery became more interesting - with green rolling hills reminiscent of Devon, albeit with different vegetation. When planning our trip, we looked forward to the Greyhound bus ride down the east coast, and looking at the map you would think that you would get to see a lot of the coast. Wrong! for most of our trip from Cairns there were not many towns, it was mainly endless sugar cane plantations followed by miles of savannah, with the odd kangaroo to break the monotony. The Greyhound buses services was great with many bus drivers advising the location of the individual hostels. Noosa is a lovely town and you can tell there is a good standard of living here, some of the waterfront properties go for 4000000 ... read more

Brisbane, or to the locals - Brisie. Brice is referred to as the little country town that just recently blossomed. These are pics from throughout our time in the city.... read more

General info: Currency: Australian dollar Cost of living: 500ml bottle of water 1$, bottle of wine 15$, meal in regular restaurant 15-20$ The summer weather in Australia is just perfect (december- february). Green and beautiful all around . The list of What to do in Brisbane begins with visit to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, and this is excatly what I did. Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary is rated by AOL as one of the top 10 Zoos in the World. It's at the same time first and the largest koala sanctuary in the World, with over 130 koalas. There is also kangooroos area where you can have some fun and feed them, parrots, tasmani devils, ostriches and much more of Aussie wildlife in beautiful nature surrounding. On the way back i have visited Queen Street Mall, where ... read more

When we had started to plan our trip, all those months ago, the only initial constraints we'd had were the Round The World flights which got us from some countries to the next for a fixed price. What we did and where we went between the dates of those flights was pretty much up to us. We knew we were going to be in Australia during their summer school holidays so things would be pretty well booked because of that, but the dates I was really concerned about were Christmas and New Year's Day. So, Steve's route up to those dates had to be written in pencil, if not quite ink, and I was adamant I wanted a booked venue to rest my head in on those dates before we set off. There's being flexible and ... read more