Blogs from Oceania - page 7657

Greetings from Australia, the land of vegemite, kangaroos, and great surf! What can I say - I love Australia and have had the most amazing time here! I love the landscape, the dry sense of humor and the “no worries” attitude towards life, the local pubs, and even vegemite! I came here six weeks ago to work as a project leader for International Student Volunteers, an organization that brings students from the US, Canada, and the UK together to work on conservation projects throughout Australia. After two weeks of physical labor, the participants get to celebrate with a two-week long adventure tour throughout Queensland. My first two weeks, I led a group of eight students (6 American, 2 Canadian) on a Conservation Volunteers Australia Project in northern New South Wales. We spent our days tackling a ... read more

So let me fill you in with the last month!!!! Jesus time passes quickly. So car had to be fixed so local bar gave me and jess work as they had been too busy therefore started work in the pub and guess what still here!!! Tried to leave last week and couldn't as car broke down again so came back to the pub! So the town of 60 people has been home and obviously celebrated birthday y'day with all the locals which was good fun! So what else have I done.... been up in a helicopter! Went mustering in a helicopter where you have to find all cattle in huge area running wild (I mean huge) and get them to go to their pen with just aid of helicopter... the pilot was amazing! would near enough ... read more

The first of hopefully many more road trips and weekend trips to come. Check out all the cool pics of the game! It was heaps of fun. I had the tickets, so we all followed me. I got into the stadium and started walking up the stairs because I was fairly sure that the seats were up higher because they were not too expensive. After looking around for a few minutes we could not find the row we were supposed to sit in. I finally asked an usher and he pointed down to the field and said way down there. I was thrilled and jogged down there. Our seats turned out to be amazing. They were not in the center of the field, but on an angle, which was fine. It was easy to see the ... read more

We're leaving Bounty Island today. We havent been able to get into any of our other "chosen" resorts of Otto and Fanny's, Octopus or Oarsmans Bay. They're all full. Instead we head for Kuata Resort...the gateway to the Yasawa's. Its not really covered in the guide books but we have seen their own brochure. We get the transfer boat to the YF and we are soon on our way. Travelling with us is is Hobarts answer to John Cleese (see pic and you'll see what I mean..) The cost is FJ$ 65 each (about 20 quid). We arrive bang on time (as usual) at 11am. It looks like a good choice.....but as Sarah know's appearances can be deceptive. We are checked into Bure Nr 8. Its costing us FJ$ 130 a night for the Bure and ... read more

Whooo hooo! Im here! In Sydney! Sat in an internet cafe on the other side of the world!!!! And boy did it take a while to get here! First off, didn't think Id make the plane. (Elaine, see what Im like when you're not here to organise me!). The good old district line was moving at 1/4 speed cos of some security alert (susi have you been leaving boxes laying around again? ;o) so was one of the last to join the check in queue and boy, what a queue. It was chaos. It took at least an hour to get seen to and then I had to run to the boarding gate cos the plan was leaving! The up-side was I got one of those seats at the front with loads of leg room (which ... read more