Blogs from Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 7

Following on from Cairns, we caught our bus from the town centre and headed towards Mission Beach with our driver guide Squirtle. First stop was a nice stroll through the rainforest where Amy pointed out spiders and I ducked around the spiders. Fun times! It was very humid in the rainforest but very pretty and after our brisk walk we had breakfast in a small town which looked like it was stuck in the 1950s. We then, accidentally, ended up at a Crocodile Farm where the keepers informed us that it was a commerical farm, meaning all the crocodiles in the end, end up as a handbag. Lovely. By the time we found this out, we'd already paid so we made our way around the farm and stood amazed at the crocodiles. They were huge and ... read more

11th to 16th feb Weather hasn't been amazing this week (I know, not as bad as yours... stop moaning u lot!!I love snow!!). It means we're actually restricted on what to do. Had a mooch around Brisbane thursday and went to the museum, acting like kids and touching all the buttons!! Headed to Australia Zoo, where Steve Irwin used to work on Friday. It rained the whole time but it was still fun. Saw a Croc show and all the Oz animals. Steve has had a massive impact in Australia, saving lots of animals and doing great conservation work and is highly regarded since his death at the zoo. Caught the 6.30am bus to Noosa, raining again. Our bus driver, who liked to be called forest Gump, was hilarious and had a great journey. We stopped ... read more

21st January 2009 - ARRIVAL IN RAINBOW AND FREE BBQ We were up early again. I got out of bed at about 7am absolutely starving as I had not had any tea the night before. The bloody fridge didn't open until 7.30am though and so I had to sit around watching the American news what with Obama being sworn in. It was pretty cool though and quite a few people had gathered to see it. 7.30 came though and I no longer cared about anything but museli!!! It tasted good!!! Once eaten, packed up and sorted we caught the 9am shuttle into town before catching the 9.30am Greyhound bus to Rainbow Beach!! The Greyhound journey was ok. It lasted for around 3 hours including a services break where I bought a brew. I spent the rest ... read more

While holidaying in Hervey Bay, we did side-trips to the nearby towns. I'll just let the pictures tell the story (too lazy to write, really ; ). OK....Watch this space ! ............. who knows !?!?....I might write something interesting one day !.....cheers ! Jo ... read more

After going to Fraser Island we had a dolphin kayaking but we only had one day left to stay and rainbow beach is a really really tiny place and we really didn't care for staying there anylonger than we had to! So instead of going kayaking they took us for a surf in the mad weather but it was wicked fun and we ended up landing a job for the surf shop/school for maybe a few weeks. First week was quite boring since we're both city girls and I don't know I guess you just have to get into it. There is no stress, just chilling. We ended up spending our days like this: wake up with the sun and go for a really early surf since that's 9 out of 10 times the best time ... read more