Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4687

I went camping with Don, Lucky, Marrika, Malik, Klauss, Michael & Sarah at the end of September. We wanted to camp by the sea but realised that no campsites along the coast allow fires, and you must have a fire when you go camping so we got a tip from a guy at Port Lonsdale and drove for another hour and half to a campsite inland at Stevenson's Falls, north of Apollo Bay (on the Great Ocean Road). It was already dark when we got there and it had rained earlier so I think it was about 3am when we finally got the fire lit! And of course we had to stay up for a few hours to make the most of it. Yeah, it was a bit of a late one. We were awoken early ... read more

We arrived in the lovely and very dead town on South West Rocks, the day before the Melbourne Cup. We did not have a pre-arranged place to stay, so we headed to the tourist information spot. They sent us to this "not-so-nice" motel. After passing on the motel, we went across the street and Sarah and I went into a real estate holiday place. We immediately were able to get a 2 bedroom apartment, one block from the beach and at a cheaper rate ($60 per night) than the seedy motel. After arranging the apartment, we headed to the local dive shop and booked a dive trip for the next day. Sarah and I were going to do 2 dives, one of them being a cave dive. I have never dove at night so I was ... read more

Melbourne cup Hallo paardenliefhebbers!!! Nou goed, vandaag dus bij de Melbourne Cup geweest. Wat een ervaring zeg! We hadden dus om 10 uur afgesproken bij het Centraal Station in de stad (Flinders Street) om op tijd op de racebaan te zijn. Daar aangekomen waren er al bergen mensen die op weg waren naar de wedstrijd. En ze zagen er allemaal even mooi uit, al was het om 10 uur ’s ochtends al stervensheet.... Toen mijn collega’s er waren zijn we gelijk op de trein gestapt, en binnen 10 minuten waren we bij de race baan. En wat een belevenis was dat zeg!!! Het was druk.. niet te geloven. Er waren meer dan 100.000 mensen aanwezig vandaag, dus reken maar uit! Mijn eerste indruk was dus al gelijk goed.. het was kwart over 10, en ik zag ... read more

well, as i said before, Betty went away for the week and left me as the cook... so yesterday was a bit crazy, between feeding the chickens, donkey, cow and the humans... i made spagetti bologneise and a big tomato salad and a cherry pie.. apperantly everyone liked it (or were too hungry to care). the only problem was that the water refused to boil.. so we started eating half an hour later... it was really wierd cooking for so many people (were supposed to be 9, but were only 7 at the end). the farm life is soo cool, i love just staying here, life has a whole different pace here... well, i'll have to go and feed the donkey, hope the cows don't eat her food this time (she's only a baby donkey) later ... read more

So we arrived in Byron Bay with plans to camp on the beach for 3 days. It sounded like a great plan, except for one thing. When we were checking into the campsite, the attendant told us that they were expecting hail storms that evening and maybe we should re-think the camping idea. No need to say that twice to me, so we picked a cabin and everything was cool. I think Chris still wanted to camp but I was getting a cabin no matter what, even if I was by myself in the cabin. The cabin contained one double bed, one single bed over the double bed (like a bunk bed), a TV and a small fridge. Washrooms were a 2 minute walk from the cabin. Washrooms were very clean, better than the hotel in ... read more