Blogs from Oceania - page 7832

16 May 2003 Bored with morning TV I left my motel early and arrived in Mathoura an hour before I was due to start work. Parked the car outside the centre and took a walk down to the local creek. A very sorry sight greeted me as I looked down the bank to an almost dry watercourse. It appeared that some of the water had been pumped out for the town's inhabitants, another sign of the continuing drought. The morning session went well, even though the threat of rain gave the outside activity shots some urgency. I finished around mid-day and left town for Melbourne.... read more

Leaving Airlie beach (the town that has no beach) in the morning on our vessel (the matador) the biggest racing yacht in the world!. We were lead into the Whitsunday islands off the coast of queensland by a pod of Dolphins at the front of the boat, amazed to see them everytime. We anchored at many points around the island but Whitehaven!! WOW unreal, probably the most idilic scenery i have ever come across, we alighted the yacht and explored the island finally settling on Whitehaven beach. Something to rival Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island, the most brilliant grainy white sand with fringing light transparent turquoise ocean, so clear and fresh looking i wanted to drink it. This is truely unreal beauty. I feel so lucky to have been here. Nature at its best, as we ... read more

I have found my paradise. This is what i imagined travelling to be like whilst day dreaming at work in rainy grey London. The feeling of being here is overwhelming, i have had to scream on numerous occasions to vent my growing excitment whilst driving our group of 8 in the 4x4, something that caused the immediate wetting of pants of my passengers. Camping out on the beach setting up the tent over a beer and watching the amazing sunsets that lit up the whole sky in a blood red colour with friends was pretty special. After the sunset, we all sat drinking VB on a sand dune admiring the red sky when after about 1 hour there was a spectacular and unexpected moon rise!!! we were totally unprepared for this and i did'nt know they ... read more

Roughly 100km west inland of Brisbane. We basically decided to have a 2 to 3 weeks stop in order to rest, detox and replenish our bank accounts. We intended to stay here long enough for both of us to save around $1,500 each. We calculated that would equate to around 3 weeks work if we limited our expenses. WE QUIT AFTER 3 DAYS. Christ almighty, what a crap load of work. We basically had to crawl on our hands and knees in the middle of a damp field all day picking bloody tomatoes whilst struggling to keep up with the tracktors conveyor belt moving up the field at an irritating pace. I wanted to quit after 2 hours but Kev kept up the motivation with positive talk whilst i balanced it out with copious amounts of ... read more

Ater 2 weeks of constant drinking and partying in Surfers we decided to come here to find work & de-tox. Our first night of de-tox consisted of 2 boxes (8 litres) of Stanley Wine on the roof of our hostel (Palace right in the middle of the city). Playing ring of fire. So much for not drinking. We found jobs beginning next week, about 200km inland in a farming town called Laidley, we will be embarking upon the profession of fruit picking!! tomatoes to be exact, so it was decided we will carry on getting p*ssed until then it was unanimous. yay!!. Brisbane is a small city. Good nightlife, sod all to do in the day. I much prefer Sydney. ... read more