Blogs from Australia, Oceania - page 4783

About 200 km south of Sydney by the coast there is Jervis Bay, that is famous for its beaches, dolphins and national park area. My first encounter with a wallabieeeee :) It was on the way to the beach when the kangaroo baby was spotted among the trees. Very very cute as he/she was looking at us for a while before hopping away to other adventures with more interesting things to see than 'civilized' human beings. ... read more

Well i have finally arrived in Sydney, i wasn't sure it would ever happen!!! and i am sure some of you think the same. I spent my last night in NZ with my family. I am so glad now that i did have that time with them, couldn't get enough cuddles with Jesse, poor thing, lucky he is young enough to not understand his mental Auntie. But all jokes aside, it was great to have the time with them as it may be a while before i am back. I think i handled myself quite well at the airport, fussed around and carried on so i wouldn't get too upset. Leanne made me a wonderful Tshirt with a photo of Jesse and a matching one for him and also a small photo album of his first ... read more

The zoo was a great place to see many of the native animals of Australia.... read more

Been here a week now. Overwhelming impression of the New South Wales countryside is that everything is sunbleached. The locals say that they desperately need rain, but that doesn't account for the earth which is ochre at its darkest, the sand which is unremittingly white and the rock which is beige, or lighter. The rangeland, which is what most of New South Wales is, is brown, no more like tawny. The ubiquitous eucalyptus ("gum") trees lose their bark as they mature so their trunks are white; their leaves are a strange silver-blue. The occasional conifer is a welcome sight! There are very few towns or even villages as you drive in the country - and we're not talking about the outback here. Even along the coast the roads are eerily empty and houses are few and ... read more

for this trip we were in a group of 11, luckily everyone was really nice so it was a good trip. we had to drive a 4x4 toyota landcruiser round the island, which was sooo much fun!! i am definitely like my dad cos i love to drive... i need to drive somethihng bigger like a lorry or something now! this was bigger than the taxi we usually get when we go india with 3 seats in front and 2 benches in the back where 8 people sat. theres no tarmac roads and the roads inland are dodgy dirt like tracks, which is just sand and then theres the beach where we mainly drove on, which was really cool! i was very impressed by myself!! we saw the sights of the island like the lakes and ... read more