Blogs from Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 1269

yoooooooooooooooooooooo, hows everyone? we are good, great, amazing, fab, chillen, "loving life" right now. ahhhh, k what have done since i last wrote.......um, tuesday it was beautiful out so we spent the day at the beach, and that night we went out for our first night in surfers. we went out with a bunch of ppl from our hostel, it was great cause when you go out with them you get free drinks at the bars and stuff. it was valentines day so the bar owner came up to me (kayla) and was like oh ill give you a free bottle of champagne if you come up on stage and play a dating game. it was a little but sketchy, but it sounded like fun and he said i can win a prize, so i did ... read more

A free bus arrived in Noosa to take us to Australia Zoo a family who hadn't prebooked seats were forced to wait to see if there were any spaces. They included about the only children in the group & they managed to squeeze on in the end. The special extended version of Steve Irwins life story was playing on the bus refamiliarising us with classic Irwinisms such as 'Woo Hoo', 'Isn't She a Beauty' & 'Sweating Bullets'. The extended version meant we didn't get to see it all before we were at the zoo. The first animal we saw was a water monitor crossing our path, these critters were all over the zoo & they were pretty tame too. Australia Zoo has the oldest animal in captivity, a large land tortoise from the Galapagos called Harriett ... read more

I must admit to having had a great time on the Fraser island self-drive, it was a totally different experience to anything i have done previously so from that point of view it was probably the highlight of my trip thus far. One thing that was also notable about was the wildlife that we encountered while on the island. We were advised during the orientation that we should ensure that we are "dingo-safe" by following the basic procedures needed to ensure we are not attacked by a dingoes, a particular problerm at night when there are many of them around. When we were all camping out on the first night people seemed disappointed that we did not encounter any dingoes. However if people were disappointed with the lack of dingo action on the first night then ... read more

Caught up with some old school friends from the UK They promise to take good care of my twin brother and will send photos of him at Little Kings Hill in Great Missenden... read more