Blogs from Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 3

I thought I'd share our excitement...only 9 sleeps before we leave Sydney to start our African Adventure with our friends, Lyn & Brian for the whole trip and their friends, Eileen & Ian for the safari. We leave Hervey Bay on 19th and Sydney at 10am on 20th. A 14 hour flight to Johannesburg, a little wait for our next plane to Cape Town and our apartment for 4 nights.... read more

28/2 We woke up just before 8, so that we could ring the Greyhound office and find out if our bus was running, keeping everything crossed. We were given the good news that it was running- phew! We then had to go to the local post office to try and retrieve a birthday parcel from the Woottons that the lazy postman couldn't be bothered to deliver to our hotel. Unfortunately it couldn't be found at the post office, and I was told it was returned to sender, so we had to leave that, and head back to our hotel to check out and get a taxi to the bus station. Luckily the taxi came quickly, and we headed off to Greyhound, with enough time to use the toilet and get a drink and snack before we ... read more

There were a couple of things we couldn't squeeze in on our first trip down, Queensland's largest island Fraser Island and the Turtle Rookery at Mon Repos. So we headed back up north in Maurice (our trusty campervan). We had a quick stop off at the Glass House Mountains in the morning; these amazing mountains are the peaks of once volcanoes that now just suddenly appear out out of the dense forest as you're driving along. We arrived in Hervey Bay in the afternoon and set up camp. We had a bit of a relax with a quick game of chess in the pool (Budapest style!) and sorted some laundry etc. Tomorrow we have a jam-packed day of activities! Bailey's bit: So after the cliffhanger last night we woke early, as we hadn't closed all the ... read more

Well after a 12 hour journey on the Greyhound bus I can honestly say I am knackered and the overnight busses in Vietnam are 100 percent better as they have a flatbed rather than sitting up with a neck cushion for 12 hours. Thank goodness I had the hindsight to find one whilst we were in Airlie Beach otherwise I would have been even more knackered than I am now. We dropped our bags off at the place where we are staying which is called Sanctuary Lakes (yes I need some Sanctuary after that journey) as we arrived around 8ish in the morning. We went for a walk along the esplanade and found one place open where we could get a coffee and ask if they had wifi. The man looked as though we had just ... read more

Happy birthday mum! Today we went to the beach for a few hours. Its hot today around 25°c. We had a swim in the sea and did a spot of sunbathing. We saw a jellyfish washed up on the beach! We also booked our Fraser island tour for tomorrow, can't wait!... read more