Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4558

Andy was up at 6.30am for a walk along the beach feeling a little ruff for too much goon! We had breakfast around 8am and set off for the day at 9am. This morning we were taking a walk into the rainforest. The amazing thing about this rain forest is that it is all growing in sand! You wouldn't think there is enough nutrients, but there is enough nutrients in the top couple of inches, so they spread their roots along rather than down. We had a few stop offs on the way to the walking track through the forest where Mark told us about various trees, plants and logging on the island. We had a nice steady walk through the Yiddy rainforest and along the Wanggoolba Creek. We saw a few lizards and an eel. ... read more

Saa hedder det verdens stoerste sandoe - Fraser Island. Svoemme i ferskvandssoe - smukke McKenzie med sit turkusblaa "vand", sand saa hvidt og fint, at man skulle tro det var mel, groenne frodige traer, der omkrandser dette cirkulaere vidunder. 60 km's koersel langs Eastern Beach med smukke sandklitter i alle taenkelige farver, som km tilbagelaegges, til den ene side og hav m. hajer til den anden side. 4W - koersel gn. regnskoven langs smalle ujaevne sand- (ikke grus)stier med groenne grene og store tykke traestammer taet, taet paa. Indkvarteret paa Wilderness Lodge under ganske fine forhold med 40 andre guys. Jeg deler vaerelse med Charlotte (DK), Dianna (UK) og Tina (N0). Ganske hyggeligt. I skrivende stund er vi netop vendt hjem fra ovennaevnte strandkoersel i kilometervis og er smuttet paa besoeg for en kort svoemmetur paa ... read more

I had been in touch with a friend of mine from Pitcher&Piano bar in Manchester, whom, when not in England, lives in Sawtell a small beach town 10 minutes south of Coff's Harbour. His name, Scott McDermid, a fresh faced Aussie who arrived in the bar and asked me for a job as a bartender about 2 months prior to my departure to Australia. With plans to go to oz in the back of my mind I got chatting to Scott and found he was a good fella so did everything in my power to help him get the job at P&P. After 2 months of working with Scott he had emailed me a 2 page A4 list of places to go out in Sydney and then at the bottom a paragraph telling me to go ... read more

At Fraser Island you have to pay for hot water. I went to have a shower at 8am, paid for the hot water in one cubicle to find i wasn't the only one in there, a VERY large spider decided it wanted to watch me. I didnt really enjoy that so i paid again to use another! We got moving pretty early, drove along the beach to Eli Creek. Then to Maheno the ship wreck, stopped at the Pinnacles and had lunch, just sandwiches today! After that I had a major trek walking up Indian Head, what a killer! but it was worth it once we were at the top, views were beautiful, tho we saw no sharks. I then swam in the only part of the sea we were allowed to (coz of sharks) called ... read more

On arriving at Uluru airport we were hit by humidity and attacked by flies! On the coach ride to the resort we saw the mighty Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) surrounded by desert. It was an impressive sight. Next morning we got up very early to see the Olgas at sunrise. We stopped at a lookout point to watch the sun rise over both the Olgas and Ayers Rock before heading to the Olgas to do a 7km walk. The walk has to be done early in the morning as after midday it is far too hot and the route is closed. We enjoyed the walk, except for being pestered by flies as nobody had told us we would need a fly net. We walked around and through the Olgas just before the ... read more