Blogs from Oceania - page 6499

Hi All! After 11 hours on the coach we're in the desert that is Byron. We spent the afternoon in the cinema to get some air-con! (and some Denzel - Deja Vu is pretty good). Byron seem pretty chilled out and is a total beach bum town. I've so far only sampled the shopping but have bought many a treat! I believe we're trekking out to Nimbin tomorrow, which i'm looking forward to. The hostel is no palace! There's a pool with a milky sort of water. It's so hot that I'm sorry to say, i did have a little splash. Hope I've caught no diseases as a result! Off to a bar called Cheeky Monkies tonight. I should fit right in. Au Revoir! Bex xxxxx... read more

hui, etzt bini tatsaechlich scho ueber 1 wuche da im schoene autstralie! ziit fuer ae ersti bilanz! d reis isch tip top gange. nachdaemi mir dae best sitz (genau i dae mitti vo dae reihe) usgsuecht ha haed mir min sitznachber grad zerst mal vo siim uswurf verzellt & afange wie aen verruckte umehueste. das haed sogar mir dae appetit verschlage! am erste tag simer natuerli diraekt an beach und ich han mir au grad s ohr (inkl. trummelfaell) verbraennt! naja, s gid nuet wos noed git! am abig haemer dae romy ihre geburi im kings-park wellae fiire. nacheme 1-stuendige marsch durd dunkelheit haemeren aber immer nonig gfunde und euses picknick halt anere bushaltestell usbreitet. so richtig gmuetlich naebedere 6 spurige strass! dae kings-park simer daenn am naechste tag im helle nomal go sueche! mitere superschoene ... read more

On leaving Melbourne, last wednesday morning, after what seemed the hottest day in the world I was fully prepared for the idea that Tahiti would not be the ¨hot tropical getaway¨ from a cold Melbourne winter and was probably going to be cooler. Indeed the 28 degrees at 9pm in Tahiti was a welcome relief from the Melbournes 34 degrees when leaving at 5 am. One thing I did not take int account however was the idea that it would be wetter. Yet to say that it was wetter would be an understatement. The auspicious title of wetter than south eastern australia could be claimed by countless cites and regions across the world. No this really was WET! Trenchal, monsoonal, whatever you want to call it, it was certainly not the ¨light¨ showers locally forecast. The ... read more

We stayed in the best hostel ever. It's called Beach Shack and is in Mission Beach. It's more like a home than a hostel. It's quite small, only about 30 people, and is family run. There was a lounge with huge sofas and a big tv, duvets on the beds with 2 pillows, free tea and coffee. These things are total luxury after some of the hostels I've stayed in recently. A lovely girl from Belgium was helping run it whilst we were there, and to be honest she made it. We even had a girly night, she made popcorn and we took over the lounge and watched Dirty Dancing and other girly films, much to the boys disgust! Anyway, we decided to do white water rafting on the Tully River whilst we were there. Tully ... read more

On Tuesday it was time for another flight, this time to Cairns. I had a quiet night at the hotel, and the following morning i had a 6.15am pick up to take me to the dive boat that would be my home for the next 3 days. The boat was scuba pro II which was one of the Pro-Dive boats. We spent 3 days out at sea on the outer reef, and although i was shattered at the end of the 3 days, and nursing a very painful wound on my ankle where the fin had removed several layers of skin, it was a brilliant experience and it is somewhere i would definitely like to return to in the future. Whilst onboad, I obtained my advanced scuba diving qualification, did a dive to 28 m, plus ... read more