Blogs from Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 590

I dont know if I'd mentioned that I'd moved to another backpackers further down Grey st, 'All Nations', anyway it seemed really relaxed and I've got chatting to a couple of friendly girls: a German called Simone and an English Julia. We talked about our thoughts about seeing The Penguin Parade on Philip Island - a little tour that sounded amazing, especially since Penguins are my most fave animals and the thought of seeing 30 or so of them emerging from the water sounded wicked! Trouble is, we were all broke, but had spotted another guy in the hostel who had a car and thought we could do a DIY trip so managed to rope him into driving us all the way up there for the day! Well, we got there to find that it would ... read more

Well hello there everyone!!! Just to give you an update on what's been going on. Been pretty hectic this last week!!! Well we left New Zealand (very sad!) and rocked up in Sydney-well I think it was Sydney, or at least some part of the orient judging by all the locals!!!!! haha! It looked like life was going to be a breeze for us and that everything would fall in our lap! Erm...Hello?...Do we actually know ourselves???? Of course none of this was to be! Our dream house was about 4days of travelling out of town and no jobs were quite right. We were just feeling slightly depressed when an angel in the form of Mr Posh James (not just a clever name!)-a friend from home-managed to completely turn everything around!!! Bless him thanks to him ... read more

Sitting on Brighton beach with a caramel & chock chip ice cream just meters away from the sea. The beach has a few less pebbles that the one back home, but lovely just the same. Think the tide is coming in. Borrowed one of the hostel's free-to-hire bikes, well, I say free, I had to leave my credit card there which probably means it's been cloned and some toe-rag is buying a Gucci track suit as I write. Still, it's been nice to escape St Kilda and come along the coast now that the rain has finally past and the southerly antartic winds have been swapped for a much more plesent breeze from the Northern deserts. Only another 5 days before I head up North - yes, I finally talked to the travel agent and booked ... read more

Hoi allemaal, Nou, iedereen heeft het nieuws waarschijnlijk al lang gelezen, dus daar hoef ik verder niet over uit te wijden. Het was echt een verschrikkelijke beslissing die we moesten nemen, maar we zijn er allebei van overtuigd dat het de beste was. Hij was zo enorm zielig, woensdag eigenlijk al, maar donderdag wa shet nog extremer. Hij kon zijn koppie niet eens meer overeind houden, en lopen deed hij al helemaal niet meer. Het was ook erg snel voorbij toen de dokter eenmaal de injectie gaf, dat was wel weer een verschrikkelijk gezicht moet ik zeggen hoor... hij lag lekker bij Jacq in d’r armen, en lag mij aan te kijken... hartverscheurend hoor. We hebben niet echt geluk met katjes zeg... allebei onze katten niet ouder dan 6 jaar geworden vanwege aangeboren afwijkingen... wat een ... read more

I was very excited to get up for 11am to be taken to Philip Island on my last full day in Australia. Lee, our tour guide was lovely and very chatty. It took him over an hour to collect him then we were on our way. On the way we stopped at Mura Wildlife Park, a center for injured, stray etc animals. We went straight to the wombats, fat brown badgers but very cute! We patted Molly when all she wanted to do was sleep! Me and Skinny had our photo taken with a koala but as Victoria have the biggest in Australia it is illegal to touch them. We had already had our photo taken with one in Australia zoo. We saw a rat being fed to a Tazmanian Devil and fed Wallabies, now i ... read more