Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4483

Hey everyone speaking so soon again after Fraser Island just 2 days later and it was time for us to set sail onto the Whitsundays. First of all before all that we had to stay a night at a hostel and we met up with a few others from the previous trip and had a few drinks with them!!!! Then it came the next day time to sail we first went to a meeting to get information and rom keys for the island we were staying on. After that we set off down to the little harbour with all the boats. This was where i decided it would actually be a good idea to hire a stinger suit so i didnt get stung by a box jellyfish which would not have been to fun at all. ... read more

Hi, we are back again after having trouble with the travel diary system; we were logged out for over a week. Sorry to our loyal readers. When we last spoke we were in Coffs Harbour where we enjoyed a nice week of constant sunshine and beautiful places. Linda even hired a car and we went on a nice trip to the nearby towns of Sawtell (on the coast) and Bellingen and Dorrigo in what Aussies call, the Hinterland. We visited a Nature reserve near Dorrigo, which gave wonderful views out over the rainforests and mountain ranges that we had climbed to get there. Both of the towns were quiet, colonial style towns but very interesting nonetheless. The car hire worked in our favour in so much as we were able to use it the following morning ... read more

Arriving in Hervey Bay after a relativley short and painless bus trip it was 8pm-ish so we were only able to see it at night, but as with all the hostels up the coast there is always someone at the bus station to pick you up in their vans to take you to the hostel, another Koala's hostel. The hostel was pretty cool with a swimming pool, bar and relatively nice rooms. After a couple of minutes our 6 bed dorm room was filled by two canadian guys who were in the van. In my experience Candian people are always really cool and up for a laugh and Mike and Adam were no exception to this and we all got on really well right away. Friday was the Fraser Island briefing talk at 3pm. In the ... read more

I woke up in a bad mood because one of the guys came in to the room while i was sleeping, turned on the light for ages and didnt apologise! Then he started snoring..grr...not as bad as Skinny does though. I had to get up at 5:45am. We got on the bus at 6:45, along with people from Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Germany, and a couple other English. By this time we had said goodbye to Tom and Wendy had already left. We stopped up the road to sign in and there was a crazy homeless man stealing coffee and cursing at every thing! Breakfast was at Mittagong, and I had a massive roast in Australia's capital Canberra. We spent quite some time here, looking in side their parliament, we had a tour but I didnt really ... read more

Nous voila donc pretes a quitter Melbourne. Nous nous sommes levees tot pour empaqueter nos affaires dans la voiture et payer le parking (qui n'est gratuit que jusque 7h30). Apres avoir tout descendu et tappe plus de 3 dollars dans cette foutue machine (j'ai failli ecrire "dans ce foutu orodateur", mais je ne suis sure ni du mot, ni de l'orthagraphe... si quelqu'un se sent l'ame a eclairer ma lanterne sur le sujet... avis aux amateurs!), on a le plaisir de decouvrir un charmant (tres ironique cette fois) PV sur notre pare-brise! Et oui... premier jour avec notre voiture, premier PV. C'est tout de meme ralant! On l'a eue tres mauvaise pendant les quelques premiers secondes, mais au final, on l'a pris comme il se doit : NO WORRIES ... il doit encore se trouver quelque ... read more