Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4009

Hi everyone, take a deep breath and get a fresh cuppa, this is a bit of a long one! Also if any 'L's are missing it's the dodgy keyboard we're using! We checked out of the hostel from hell (Planet Inn, Perth BOOO in case you've forgotten) as early as possible, and enjoyed a nutricious breakfast of cold pizza (doggy bag from previous night in Freo) and Coffee Chill (flavoured milk we've both become pretty addicted to) before picking up our set of wheels for the next 7 days. Our Toyato Corrolla was to be known as No Birds for the week for the simple reason that that was written on the side of it (how imaginitive are we!?). We chucked our bags into the boot and headed back to Fremantle (or Freo if you're cool ... read more

Took a walk round Sydney for the last time as I am catching the bus again tomorrow.... read more

Very sleepy after a 12 hour overnight coach journey from cairns. Arrived at Airlie Beach this morning at 11am. Checked into our hostel, called beaches backpackers, and sorted out all the details about meeting tomorrow to start our sailing around the Whitsundays Islands. They are a group of islands off the coast of Airlie Beach and have fabulous beaches and coral reef. Very excited!! we meet at 3pm tomorrow for our 3 day, 3 night sailing trip in our luxury boat. Looking forward to Whitehaven beach which is meant to be beautiful. Spending the day revitilising and catching up on missed sleep and celebrity gossip as this girl at my hostel gave me her copy of Heat magazine! Also, we have television in our room so hoping to find which channel neighbours is on - when ... read more

Well this is my second to last day working in Sydney and it comes with great relief that I am writing this as it means that I will soon be touring around Oz in a camper van! So... I have been working really hard (well by travelling standards anyway..) and it is about time I had a break and resume work on the suntan!! I have managed to get work through agencies here and there (by begging most of the time as there are so many backapckers here!), abut 5 weeks in total and have saved up some hard earned pennies. I am sat at my desk right now (if i type it makes me look busy you see...) as an executive receptionist. It reminds me of the devil wears prada, in so much as the ... read more

We have spent the last few nights on fraser island. Great place. Huge long beaches. and lots of sun. Ryan is feeling a bit under the weather, and it may be due to the beer he was consuming, and lack of drinking the water. Either way it went great. We had alot of fun. We met some english blokes, and two irish gals. They seem like lots of fun. The island itself was good right up until it started raining. The night it rained there were four tents for everyone to sleep in (i brought my own thankfully) and they leaked like french safes. Actually some of them filled up with water and drowned out the sleepers. Everyone ended up taking refuge in the trucks and packed togeather like sardines. It was a really really rough ... read more