Blogs from Fraser Island, Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 6

After a delightful 13 hour journey through the night we arrive at Hervey Bay coach station, where i see someone i used to work with in M&S - small world, but he's heading down to Sydney, so i might meet up with him there! Get to our hostel and a few hours later we are reunited with Neil! We have a laze in the sunshine by the pool - you know how it is!! Then later we head into the town in search of the mexican all you can eat buffet - we'd seen a sign earlier in the day for it. We manage to find the 'buffet' can't believe they called it a buffet, it was a lousy attempt in a hostel and looked like a school dinner and there was no food, so we ... read more

Headed to Fraser island today, largest sand island in the world. Joined a group of 11 people hiring a jeep. Was very cool spent the day time cruising the beaches ect in our jeep, and the nightime gettin para. We had a go drivin, lucy looked and drove like a granny and katie didnt even bother. Tom got behind the controls and with Mark and Ben egging him on went well. Mark got a slight lean on in one place and the women were screaming like toddlers. ... read more

מיד כשסיימנו את הביקור בנוסה עלינו על האוטובוס ויצאנו לנסיעה קצרצרה של 5 שעות (כן, בשבילנו זה כבר שום דבר..) בדרכנו להרווי ביי. על הרווי אין הרבה מה לספר, האמת, כי זו עיר די משעממת. כל מי שמגיע אליה מגיע למטרה אחת בלבד - יציאה לפרייז'ר איילנד - אי החול הגדול בעולם ומקום שנחשב לאחד היפים והמיוחדים באוסטרליה. מכיוון שזמננו קצר לקחנו טיול מאורגן של יום אחד בלבד, ולמרות שיכול היה להיות נחמד לעשות את הטיול המסורתי לשם - של 3 ימים, בלינת קמפינג ונהיגה בג'יפים וכאלה, עדיין היה לנו כככייייףףף!! כי היה לנו אחלה מדריך, כי יש שם דברים שלא רואים כל יום וכי נפלנו על מזג אוויר פשוט חחחללווווםם!!! (: מה ראינו שם? את הספינה הטרופה המפורסמת שנתקעה באי בדרכה מניו זילנד לאוסטרליה, נחל של מים שקופים. משהו שאי אפשר להבין עד שלא רואים. ... read more

We have spent the last few nights on fraser island. Great place. Huge long beaches. and lots of sun. Ryan is feeling a bit under the weather, and it may be due to the beer he was consuming, and lack of drinking the water. Either way it went great. We had alot of fun. We met some english blokes, and two irish gals. They seem like lots of fun. The island itself was good right up until it started raining. The night it rained there were four tents for everyone to sleep in (i brought my own thankfully) and they leaked like french safes. Actually some of them filled up with water and drowned out the sleepers. Everyone ended up taking refuge in the trucks and packed togeather like sardines. It was a really really rough ... read more

The night before we left Airlie Beach it absolutely chundered it down, as you can imagine we didn’t get much sleep with the rain bouncing off our van. The rain went on all night causing our van roof to leak. We had to use tea towels to soak up the rain coming in through the side window. It was slightly annoying that we didn’t get much sleep as we had a really long drive the next day. We set off from Airlie Beach at around 8.45am and headed back onto the A1, the Bruce Highway. We stopped twice for toilet breaks and for food but we were almost driving for a solid 11 hours and covered between 800-900 kilometres. The drive went relatively quick with no problems along the way. We arrived in Hervey Bay just ... read more