Blogs from Kroombit, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 2

19/11/2008 From Airlie Beach we took a ride to Kroombit in the 'Insane Asylum' driven by Uncle Buck. It was an epic days driving, leaving at 7am and arriving eventually in the Australian Outback by early evening. Uncle Buck was a legend playing many random games on the bus including this...On half on the windscreen he drew a grid with squares, there were teams of 3 and about 10 teams. Each team had a square and you got a point every time a bug splatted on your square. After a while of driving we stopped for a session of bare foot lawn bowls in which myself and Lee hammered fellow travellers Charlie and Amanda. When we arrived we checked in so to speak as it was just a wooden bench with a cashbox and allocated our ... read more

A lot of the people from the boat met at 5 to go and have one of those communal barbeque meals... I, being quite the experienced pro at these by now was head chef along with karl (a french canadian guy from the boat) and we cooked up quite a feast. Much eating and drinking later and we headed back to beaches bar for the pre-arranged afterparty. For every 4 peopel that turned up we got 1 free pitcher of drink and were all getting extrememly merry - generally singing far too loud and makign far too much noise. In australia however this doesnt appear to be a bad thing, quite the opposite actually- the bar staff gave us another 2 free pitchers for being "enthusiastic"- i think they were just happy that we were livening ... read more

Hey guys. So having left Airlie beach, we made a mid morning stop to play some lawn bowls. Now i did quite well, having played a few times with Dad, though the lawns were too brown and fast for my liking! Plus it was too hot, even for bowls. From there we travelled, whilst watching starsky and hutch, to Rockhampton for a subway lunch, happy days, who says i cant splash out every now and then! And then the last leg of the day to Kroombit cattle station was covered by Die another day. Also, during this leg of the journey the scenery was particularly good, especially the last 10km or so down a dirt track to the ranch. Though we arrived in rain, yes rain, it cleared up for a lovely evening. Having checked into ... read more

a headed to a Kroombit Cattle Station.......was not really sure what to expect.....however it turned out to be well worth the long bus trip!! we arrived about mid afternoon and first up was the option to go horse riding and muster some goats.....it was rainin so a decided to give it a miss.......then once the cowboys/girls came back with the goats we had to participate in a 'Goat Rodeo'.....we were put in teams of 3 and told to invent a name for us. a was put with 2 girls that a had met on the fraser island tour.....a thought of the name...'Goat Gangsters'.....turned out one of the better ones and quite possibly the best!! we went into the ring with a goat and the first person had to catch the goat and pull it over with ... read more

Hey everyone! So...i'm officially a cowgirl! I went up to the Great Dividing range (the 3rd larges mountain range in the world after the rockies!)... there we went up to a 20 000 hectare cattle station (ya it was huge!) sooo when we first got there i got to go horse riding to round up goats! LIKE A REAL COWGIRL...on my form i decided that i had been horsebackriding in the past therefore i wasn't a beginner and put down intermediate instead... what the HELL was i thinking?! they assigned horses according to experience (which i have very little of) my horse was called "ledger"...he was a jerk... the relationship between us started off bad..i got onto this step thing to get on him..i swear to god he moved ever so slightly and i fell right ... read more