Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4682

Canberra - Newcastle Country roads lined with squishy bloody road kill… makes you wonder who is more stupid, the roos or the drivers… Starting out with a 50c Enya cassette bought from the Salvos yesterday, and before I realise I am on my path and a luminescent fresh sea of green lies before me, and I’m restraining my tears… not sure what I’m feeling but something between leaving C behind and the joy of the open future… I find myself overwhelmed but mustn’t grieve here, too hard to drive between pools of tears… Fields of radiant salvation jane/patterson’s curse glow across the hills and drifting clouds create dancing shadows over me. A horse nurses her foal. Sure I’ve seen the countryside before, but in this moment I’m seeing it like never before… I love moments like ... read more

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Finally a holiday! After the wonderful experience of packing my life up in boxes and bags, moving out of my unit ("bumping" my car in a typical nami fashion so that I had to get it fixed before I left Australia...I time things so that I can get the most stress out of a short space of time....) I managed to get on the Surfari bus with my "little" brother Tim on Monday 31st October and we began our trip up north with about 22 other people all keen to learn or practice surfing. The big yellow bus (named "Capt Good Vibes") drove over the harbour bridge, past the opera house and out of Sydney towards our first campsite near Kempsey on the north coast of NSW. After hours and hours of driving we were all ... read more

Well, as whale watching was cancelled this morning due to high winds (Exmouth is obviously the place for me to not do much!), time to put some photos from the Kimberley trip on line. I'm hopping on the bus to Coral Bay at lunchtime and will spend a couple of days there, before a bus ride down the coast over 3 days - arriving in Perth on Sunday evening. Looking forward to a week there - the Fremantle festival is on next weekend so that should be good.... read more

Spent two nights in Airlie Beach, it's a bit like Byron Bay. Our main aim was a daytrip to the Whitsunday Islands, in particular Whitehaven Beach to see if it looked like the picture Miles bought me one Christmas. It did. We set out in the early morning on a largish boat to spend the morning on Whitehaven Beach. After crowding onto the viewing platform to take photos I managed to dramatically throw my sunglasses over the edge and onto the rocks below. Nick gallantly offered to try and rescue them but I'm not sure I could have coped with two losses in one day (or was just an excuse to get away from me for a while, mmmm). We trotted over to the beach in the searing heat. The sand was boiling hot, very white ... read more