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Travel Blogs from Australia
My sunburnt country
This is a top pick! Even though we could sleep in until 7am, my insomnia kicked in once again and I woke at 4. It was far too cold to venture out from under my 2 doonas so I lay awake until I heard movement in camp indicating that breakfast was ready. The Irish ladies are ...
Of Bicyclists and Coral
This is a top pick! Feeling a little lonely, I invited myself on a trip by bicycle around the island with two girls staying at the hostel, Fiona and Nassha. They also intended to go snorkelling, which was good since I really wanted to try it out and wouldn't have had the ...
The Living City
This is a top pick! ... experience - a nice start to my trip. At night I went to the top of the Rialto Tower, the tallest building in Australia. The views of the city at night were superb, although I couldn't get many decent photographs because all the lights played havoc ...
I need a holiday.
This is a top pick! ... and book the next holiday. Thus, 10 months later, we are on another plane, crossing the fabulous continent of Australia, beginning our next adventure - albeit scooterless. I last visited the Northern Territory in 1989 and have always wanted to show ...
It's Raining Beaches
This is a top pick! Sydney's a beautiful city. Outside the city centre the architecture has a Spanish flair, with red terracotta tile roofs, and something a little Persian, in the form of intricate wrought-iron fences on balconies, looking like something you might see on ...
The Limestone Coast
This is a top pick! ... . On a boring drive northwest we broke the fuel rule of never dropping below a quarter tank. In a vast country like Australia it's important to keep ample petrol on board at all times. The scenery improved to include seaside lakes surrounded ...
Portrait of Travelling Companions III
This is a top pick! ... off the jetty, my first tentative bicyclings along the fine bike paths of Busselton, my first foray into the drinking of Australia's multitude of pre-mixed bottled alcoholic drinks, my first wild game of doubles ping-pong. We lived in the same caravan ...
The Chaos
This is a top pick! Wow, Havent written one of these in a while...sorry about that but it just seems like something so easy to put off...tommorow tommorow. Anyway, since Jerrods arrival and the formation of the Gorilla ...
The Outback Part 1
This is a top pick! Soon after leaving Alice Springs the high red rock cliffs that make up the Western MacDonnell Ranges emerged. They may be the oldest mountains in the world, believed to be about 340 million years old and they looked majestic in the morning light. ...
The Great Ocean Road: Warning, Very Wet
This is a top pick! ... still sunny when we pull up for a quick stop in the town of Torquay, on Victoria's surf coast and home to one of Australia's biggest surf competitions each year. As a result they've got a huge run of surf clothing stores, including wholesale and factory ...
A bit o' Didge
This is a top pick! ... a big (expensive) aussie breakfast and then for a wander. We'd decided we wanted to buy a didgeridoo as a souvenir from Australia so headed for the rather oddly named 'Sounds of Starlight Theatre’ which pretty much sells just didgeridoos. Standing ...
Adrenalin!
This is a top pick! When Kate and I showed up at the abseiling company at 8:45 in the morning the first thing we had to do was try on wetsuits to find the right fit. Wetsuits are awfully hard to put on, and there was an amusing moment where eleven people were jumping around ...
Slices of Life
This is a top pick! ... also staying here, at the Tye Estate an hour north of Melbourne. It's 1100 acres of bushland owned by John Marsden, Australia's bestselling young adult author. He lives here and runs school camps and writing clinics and the like on the property. My ...
More Time in Busso
This is a top pick! So after a few weeks of grape picking and cleaning super market floors I thought I was coming to the end of my time in Busselton when Sam, the owner of the hostel, said he'd found a job for me for a month, packing table grapes (as opposed to wine grapes) ...
Visiting my cousin...
This is a top pick! I'd not seen my cousin Brendan for well over 10 years, but as he lives just a few hours south of Sydney, I certainly wanted to meet up with him. I'd spoken to him on the phone the week before and he said that Rie was more than welcome too, so at 7am on ...
The Krill Have Been Removed for Remedial Treatment
This is a top pick! ... " aren't much to brag about. But as far as city atmosphere goes, I thought Adelaide had it. I went out to the South Australia museum, which had the usual run of taxidermied animals and fossils and big ol' rocks, and was therefore pretty boring. It did ...
The Gorilla Cavalry
This is a top pick! ... awaited my new package...I assumed by this point it was either a speargun or a rifle or something like a tank for the domination of Australia. A girl that works at the hostel came up to me and said "hey Jordan we have a surprise for Hanna outside for her ...
The Nations Capital - Architectural masterclass
This is a top pick! ... still think Sydney is) and its literal meaning is "Meeting place". Canberra was created as such, due to the newly federated Australia needing a capital city in 1911. On the 8th October, after a competition to decide the design for it, Walter Burley ...
First sighting of the Opera House...
This is a top pick! My final few days in New Zealand were completely uneventful, as I simply spent my time having a final look around, and saving my money for Sydney. I bought a guide book to help me get acquainted with the city before I even touched down in Oz, and Donna ...
Getting Ritzy
This is a top pick! It was strange to come back through Busselton after thinking I'd seen the hind-end of it. The streets were wet and emptied of the summer tourists. After picking up dinner and DVDs in Dunsburough we checked out the Read family vacation home: a lovely ...
Weed On
This is a top pick! On Wednesday we had a break from the weeding and got to plant a line of wattles, a eucalyptus type tree, along the edge of a national park. It just so happens that this park borders Russell Crowe's family property (from which I snatched a handful of ...
Sweating Above Wilpena Pound
This is a top pick! In the morning we drove south (I know, counterintuitive) to the Flinders Ranges National Park for a hike up to the top of Wilpena Pound, which from the air looks like a volcano crater but is really just a ring of mountains surrounding a valley. The flies ...
Easternmost
This is a top pick! ... On the way up to the Cape Byron Lighthouse we stopped at a lookout noted to be the easternmost point in mainland Australia. It brought back fond memories of Cape Spear in Newfoundland. The lighthouse overlook was equipped with camera mounts for ...
Brits Abroad
This is a top pick! ... up the street towards the harbour, I saw it peeking out from under the edge of the elevated train line, and smiled. I'm here, in Australia. There's the proof, clad in white tile and spotlights. After dinner we did a bar tour of Sydney. It seems that ...
Done in Busso
This is a top pick! So, after two and a half months, I have finally left Busselton, just as the weather turned dark and stormy and turned the generally pleasurable pastimes of the area to miserable, cold pastimes. Now, like many backpackers of yore, I am heading north to ...
Musswellbrook Antics
This is a top pick! Went up to Quirindi (south of Tamworth in inland NSW) for my WWOOF work at Castle Mountain Farmstay on Thursday afternoon. The first part of the bus ride, from Sydney to Musswellbrook, was fine: all rolling white-grass hills with distant dots of ...
Melbourne - culture, sport and trams 23-28 April
This is a top pick! ... all in all enjoyed Melbourne and would definitely come back again it’s got culture, theatre, museums, art galleries and sporting venues - Australia Open and the Melbourne Grand Prix - so a pretty cool place to live. So the Australian leg of my ...
Port Headache
This is a top pick! Number one reason I'm glad that I'm a backpacker, and not a tourist: I don't ever, and would never consider, paying $17.00 for a breakfast consisting of eggs, bacon, sausages and a grilled tomato with a bit of cereal on the side. Or $13.00 for a ...
It never rains in June
This is a top pick! Slept badly on very thin swag mattresses - so much for an insomnia cure. After breakfast we went back to Geike Gorge and did the boat cruise. It was very beautiful and we spotted many crocodiles - although they were only the freshwater types - small and ...
A New Year Means New Beginnings
This is a top pick! ... have now spent our first Christmas Day away from the nest and it was a totally different experience. Christmas in Australia is like a completely different holiday altogether (or maybe that was just our experience of it! Our plans to ...