Blogs from Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 1246

Woke up feeling rotten but convinced myself I was ok to dive...once inthe water I just felt worse. Everything felt awkward and uncomfortable, Started feeling a bit panicky and queesy so Anika took me up to the surface and I went back to the boat. Feeling thoroughly dissapointed in myself I sat inside and tried to cheer up. When we returned to Airlie beach I was feeling much better. Went for food with Pete, Alex and Tom. The guys had arranged a nightout at Beaches Bar in town so we all met up with everyone else about 8pm and drank too much snakebite. Got told off for dancing on the table!! oops! Went on to a bar called Mama Africa but was so tired I headed home bout 2.30am.... read more

We crossed on the ferry from Townsville, to a place called Magnetic Island for a bit of a day trip When we arrived, we thought we would treat ourself, and instead of relying on buses to get around the Island, we would hire a car, to save time, and make the most of the day. We decided on getting (highly recommended we have to say) a Moke. We will go into the Moke fun later. Once we collected the Moke, we started our way around the island, visiting the 3 main beach/resorts. After 10 minutes of driving, we came to a beach, and realised we had just driven the full length of the island, approx 9km. So much for hiring a car to make sure we saw as most of the island as we could in ... read more

Eventually we set off on our journey down the east coast in our campervan. First stop was Mission Beach which was covered in branches and seaweed thanks to the cyclone. Not quite the image we had of it! We did however see a wild Cassowary (large dinosaur like bird) which is quite rare. Next we journeyed through Ingham to Bowen where we visited Horseshoe and Rose Bays, both beautiful and pretty much deserted as Bowen is not very touristic. We found the locals very friendly (well, most Aussies are keen for a chat). From Bowen we drove to Airlie Beach to visit the Whitsundays. We took a boat trip to Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island. It is often voted the world's best beach and we could see why! We then snorkelled off Hook Island and almost ... read more

Rebonjour tout le monde, bon voila ou j'en suis! Je peinture des didgeridoos et des boomerangs et des cossins pour le musee d'aborigene avec mon ami Bun-narr. C'est vraiment enrichissant et les aborigenes de l'atelier sont riches en ressources et en connaissances. Ca me fait vraiment du bien de me retrouver ici. Les choses n'arrivent jamais pour rien. Ma rencontre avec Ban-narr m'a rememore ce que je suis venue chercher en Australie...la memoire des ancetres! Ca m'a donner un bon coup de pouce pour me remettre sur la track! C'est mon premier contact en 5 mois avec la culture aborigene, il etait temps! Ce sont des gens vraiment genereux de leur temps, de leur connaissances et fier de leurs racines. Ils sont merveilleux!!! Wow, je capote! Je reviens c'est sur dans quelques mois. Bun-narr va m'emmener ... read more

Oh dear what a shame we had to leave Surfer's Paradise?!?! (said with more sarcasm than ever before). It was awful. After leaving the most amazing place I have ever been to end up in a commercial, concrete, neon, McDonald's, theme park, scally-tastic filled dump can only be described very depressing and put us all on a bit of a downer for a few days. The night life there was supposed to be it's one saviour but even that was rubbish, so if you can't tell already we were not impressed and have nothing good to say about it. .... So onto brighter things, and the hype has to be re-fuelled in our lack luster engines, so we moved out of the Cavv-run Cheers backpacker's and on to Brisbane. Matt has a friend he met in ... read more