Blogs from Oceania - page 7309

Click on Gallery above Then click on south island just roll the arrow over what you want enhanced... if you don't like em too bad... read more

Having bade Anne, my helpful Quantas stewardess (possibly the best stewardess in the world) farewell I cleared customs quickly and easily, and jumped on a Train to the city centre. I arrived at my hostel "wake up!" and checked in, dumping my bag in the dorm where a number of comatose bodies lay. I immediately headed of to have a walk around the city. I started off walking along Darling Harbour and then inland a little. As I did this I noticed the sky turn a forboding colour of grey, and then as I feared they would the heavens opened. At least this time unlike in Japan the rain was warm, but it was also very heavy, and suprisingly wet. I ducked into a cafe for shelter, but the $5.50 for a bacon and egg sandwich ... read more

Day 1~ Got up early (which is getting very hard) as we were being picked up at 8.30 for our Fraser Island tour! The bus was similiar to our Kakadu tour so we grabbed the back seats this time thinking we were clever as the last time the front ones got sooo hot...well turned out the back ones were the hottest as the air-con had broken-that'll teach us! Got talking to a couple on the bus-Mel & Andy, they were from Essex and really nice! Stopped at the service station on the way and Mark (the guide) took the van to get the air-con fixed as we were all giving him abit of grief about it...1 1/2 hrs later (thinking he'd forgotten about us) he returned, still with the broken van but he said we were ... read more

Check me out in the very beautiful black water rafting gear we wore for caving in Waitomo caves. This was amazing: floating through water filled underground caves in a car inner tube (!); jumping over waterfalls and laying back and watching glow worms on the ceiling of the cavernous caves.... read more

hello everyone! ive decided to set this site up (inspired by tom, thanks cuz! haha) to document mine and stus melbourne experiences, it seems easier to keep up to date than the group email thing, and it allows you to choose whether or not to read it! ill try and attach photos when relevant as i know they are always more interesting than words, but basically i'll try to keep you all up to date with life in melbourne throughout the course of the year! well the first week is over, we arrived with the sole goal of finding a house. our budget was originally $200-250 p/week, which after about 2 days we discovered was totally unrealistic after walking through a couple of dark, dingey houses which were just plain depressing. so after getting the calculator ... read more