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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay January 16th 2011

Half of the state of Queensland is underwater, it is freak flooding and lives have been lost, very sad. We are camping out in the little van; the rain is relentless and is pounding down upon us and we have sprung a leak, or to be precise, a few leaks. A dribble soon becomes a steady flow. The small town we are in is called and is in the mountains not far from Brisbane. It is a lovely little place and has a strong community feel. The library is buzzing and here I can buy second hand books from the sale table for the equivalent of 30p as well as browse the internet for free. There are lots of nice cafes including an arts bar where older and younger people come together to listen to live ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay January 3rd 2011

If you know the Nanny McPhee stories and films by Emma Thompson you’ll have seen two rather posh, well-dressed evacuees getting out of their chauffeur-driven limousine into a muck-filled farmyard and exclaim that they have landed in the land of poo … ‘Hello, poo-people’ is the greeting offered by the boy to the children of the farm … So it must have looked to the hardened Aussie campers (with their set-ups the size of a small cul de sac in Wincanton) when we disembarked from the Spaceship© having arrived at our ‘rainforest-experience’ campsite near Mt Warning – squelch … yuk. Due to it being school holidays and peak season; this was the closest campsite to Byron Bay I could find back in October through Google. It looked great; sunny, verdant pastures full of strong, healthy looking ... read more
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Emily diving for frogs

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay January 3rd 2011

The original plan in coming to Hervey Bay was to spend a day going on a 4WD safari on the world's largest sand island, Fraser Island. Given our changing travel plans and the floods further north, we decided instead to rush up the coast past the flooded Bundaberg and to aim for a snorkel on the barrier reef, staying overnight in 1770. Whilst waiting' we did get to spend some time on the beach, although again the brownness of the seawater revealed the scale of the flooding up the coast.... read more
Shark spotted off Hervey Bay
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Shell spiral - Hervey Bay

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay December 14th 2010

Hello everyone, Just thought we'd say hi and try and upload a few photo's for you from our latest adventure, sailing around the Whitsunday islands! We had an amazing time and it was such a great birthday for Abi. Whitehaven beach was amazing, the sand was pure white and snorkeling on the reef was also brilliant, seeing thousands of fish and sea turtles! We're still making our way down the east coast and enjoying the sunshine, although there was really bad flooding in some places here in the week delaying our bus! Hope everybody is well, will do a more informative blog soon, Missing you all, lots of love Abi and Simon xxxxxxxxx P.S thank you for my birthday messages, love Abi x x x x ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay November 21st 2010

Today we had several hours to kill before our final overnight bus journey and so we did what we do best and sat on the beach before heading to the bus terminal to shop and eat! Having stocked up on supplies we boarded the bus and spent several hours of double seat luxury before the bus stopped at Agnes Water to pick up a bus load of passengers! Sneakily we managed to pull off fake sleeping and our double seats were retained and we managed a fairly successful nights sleep as far as buses go and we arrived in Airlie Beach the next morning at 7am! Check-in wasn't until 11.30 so we had no choice but to sit in Mc Donalds and abuse the free wi-fi!! After checking in we headed to the man-made lagoon infront ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay November 21st 2010

We awoke in the bush early this morning in order to catch the bus to Hervey Bay! We were ever so slightly excited to be leaving Gagaju and after a long bus journey we arrived in Hervey Bay from where we would be heading out to Fraser Island. That evening we had our tour meeting and the 30 of us were divided into 4 cars! Our group of 8 was thankfully the best of the bunch and we were scared to high heaven by the Island briefing which involved a description of possibly every single thing that could kill us, car and animal!! We wrote our shopping list in the presence of a delightful little possum which kept jumping onto the table, making Elin run a mile, but we managed to complete our big brother style ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay November 5th 2010

Een nieuwe week, een nieuw dorpje. Het lijkt een mooie slogan, maar niet echt ideaal als we ons (ahum) schema willen volgen. We hebben ons dus voorgenomen om vanaf nu een beetje vaart te maken. Helaas lijkt het lot onze plannen te dwarsbomen. Zondagavond aankomen in Hervey Bay, maandagochtend ontbijt gekregen van christelijke daklozenhelpers, en een uur later overvallen worden… Zou het één iets met het ander te maken hebben? Een magere troost dat de ervaren boefjes dit wel vaker doen, ik zit hier nu wel zonder centjes, zonder gsm (ondertussen wel een nieuw, een rood hip dingske van welgeteld 29$!), en zonder enig bewijs dat ik mezelf ben, wat misschien wel de grootste problemen kan opleveren. Ook waren de boefjes aan de haal met de sleutel van ons hippiebusje, dus paniekpaniek, want wat doe je ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay October 6th 2010

We arrived late at Mango & as only the bunks in our 3 bed dorm were free & Dawn bagsied the bottom I had to clamber up to the top to sleep & I mean clamber as there were no ladders! Our first morning didn’t exactly start well as the other girl in our room had set her alarm early but then kept hitting snooze so it ended up going off 4 or 5 times before she eventually got noisily out of bed & changed. After that the day improved with a walk along the beach & a warm paddle in the sea. Unlike Manly Beach this one was almost empty for most of the length we walked. That afternoon we decided to go whale watching as we’d ummmed over it in Sydney & apparently there ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay September 3rd 2010

Uwaga techniczna: zdaje się, że filmiki nie działają, więc być może będziemy je uploadować od nowa i ewentualnie dodamy ich więcej, kiedy tylko problem zostanie rozwiązany przez technical support travelblog.org. Jedynym minusem dzisiejszego dnia było to, że musieliśmy pokonać w sumie 269 km z Rainbow Beach do Hervey Bay i z powrotem, po krętych lokalnych drogach, z czego połowę po ciemku. Jazda samochodem jest zupełnie nowym doświadczeniem dla nas obojga: dla Miśka z oczywistych względów, a dla mnie dlatego, że pełnię funkcję pilota i w dodatku czuję się współodpowiedzialna za to, żebyśmy na pewno jechali lewą stroną drogi. W Polsce albo Misiek zna drogę na pamięć, albo mamy GPS, więc po usadowieniu się w samochodzie kompletnie niczym nie muszę się przejmować. Natomiast tutaj powtarzam w myślach jak mantrę: „ja - krawężnik, Misiek - środek drogi, ... read more
A oto i "hump" - od tego czegoś na grzbiecie pochodzi nazwa wieloryba
Wieloryb widziany od paszczy
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Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Hervey Bay August 30th 2010

Still making our way south, and after two nights in Bundaberg with friends from home, we made our way to Hervey Bay, the gateway to Fraser Island. We were staying in a YHA which also had a campground and it was through them that we booked out Fraser island trip and a day trip out on a Catamaran to go whale watching. We were hoping this time our whale watching expedition would be more fruitful that our trip back in October of the coast of Western Australia. And wow! what a day we had. The whales we saw here were just amazing. They are such curious creatures coming right up to our boat, all around it and underneath it; and they do like to put on a good show. We had a lot of tail waving, ... read more
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