Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4549

We spent the day today down at the Reef HQ, Townsville's own aquarium which was awesome. It features a huge tank with hundreds of coral reef, fish and predators in including sharks, sting rays and green sea turtles. It was a stunning visit where I was able to take some pretty cool photos as hopefully you will agree. Mike... read more

Sorry folks this has been a long time coming! Although we really enjoyed Oz we found it very expensive (as we had to fly so much) and fairly similar to the UK. We began our Austrialian adventure with a couple of nights in Brisbane to sort out our bus tickets up the Gold Coast, and to visit Austrialia Zoo, unfortunately we didn't see Steve, but managed to spot many lookalikes! From Brisbane we caught the bus to Noosa, an upmarket seaside town, then to Rainbow Beach to see the coloured sands, and then onto Hervey Bay to visit Fraiser Island. Frasier Island was just as beautiful as Rachel remembered and brought back fond memories of her trip with Jo and Penni. We did a little walking in the rainforest and lots of swimming, but not in ... read more

Bus at 8am, straight to so called 'Rainbow Beach' named beacuse it has over 70 different colours, but all i saw was one sand colour and a strange looking grey - not pretty at all! Our bus driver, Claire, took us to the beach to tell us all about aboriginal culture. But it started to rain. So we moved. She told us about the culture and iv forgotten it already but we tried to play a didjaridoo (no idea how to spell that!) Neither me or Skinny could coz we kept laughing! We were also hungry, so we had lunch, and then had a go with a child proof boomerang! That didnt really work either. So we made our way to the Sunshine coast, the start being Noosa, were we stopped for a couple of hours. ... read more

I've arrived in Alice Springs "The Red Centre", after a 2 hour flight from Perth. Thanks to Nige and Nicole for putting me up whilst in Perth, and for the lift to the airport. Stopped off in Cottesloe before the airport and took a few photos with Nige. The landscape from the plane was awesome, you can see why they call this part of OZ the "The Red Centre". The colour of the landscape is parched red by the sun. You will also notice from the photos, that not many rivers contain water!!! I've booked into my accommodation for the night. It's a very clean and friendly place, even if a little more basic than the accommodation I have been used to recently!! Just about to head for a curry, which has been recommended by the ... read more

ja taas aikasin ylös... vaikkei edes paistanu aurinko tai mitään.. on se niin ärsyttävää, ku ei vapaa aamuina osaa nukkua! Tänään oli onneks toi aurinko pilvessä, koska päätettiin lähtee tekeen sellanen Bondi beachin kävelyreissu jota ne meille töissä suositteltiin, että on aika komiat maisemat. Mä en oo aikasemmin Bondilla käynny eli nyt tehtiin jotain mullekin ihan uutta! Noh me reippaina tyttöinä otettiin vettä mukaan ja junalla Bondi Junctionille (rantaan asti ei pääse junalla). Siitä ois sit kyllä menny busseja Bondi beachille, mutta katottiin kartasta, että tosta juna-asemalta ei oo hirveesti matkaa Bronte Beachille jonne se kävelyreitti loppuu. Siinä kartassa siis ei oo tien nimiä eikä mitään eli lähettiin vaan suunnistaan vettä kohti. Noh kyllähän me lopulta löydettiin sinne veden ääreen ja kun ruvettiin kattoon, niin oltiin vedette muutamalla kilometrillä etelään suunnitelmast... read more