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Travel Blogs from East Coast, Australia
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Sunshine At Last!
This is a top pick! ... to lash the windscreen as we headed off in the van after checking out of Main Beach, Surfers Paradise. Intending to visit Australia Zoo, home of Steve Irwin - crocodile hunter, we travelled past the Glasshouse Mountains just north of Brisbane. However, ...
Balls and chains, squalls and rain
This is a top pick! ... would in due time swallow more than 65,000 men and women convicts - four out of every ten people transported to Australia. How many Tasmanian Aborigines died while the invading whites invaded this cavity is not known because no one knew how many there ...
East Coast Australia
This is a top pick! ... -millionaires. We're back in Sydney, and about to embark on what is probably the most famous of Australian road trips, the East Coast from Sydney to Cairns. After leaving Sydney on the greyhound coach, a temporary home where we would spend at least ...
Heading South
This is a top pick! ... - suddenly all the boxes started to get ticked - kangaroo (well, wallaby), koala, kookaburra - I feel like I've been in Australia now!!!! In absolutely pouring rain (not what I came to Australia for - I'm thinking about asking for my money back...), I ...
Various - The Rain, It Raineth Every Day
This is a top pick! ... of days early in Sydney (as school holidays hiked up the cost of other modes of transport) we excitedly set off up the East coast of Australia. Our first stop was at a quiet little town called Laurieton, and we arrived at around five o' clock. Before ...
East Coast Adventures
... past few days. Jo and I then headed onto the Town of 1770, gaining its name from the year Capation Cook founded Australia and mapped the east coast. A very quiet town especially in the rain but I did manage to fit in my final surfing lesson the east coast ...
Week 2 - Whitsunday Islands and Fraser Island
Week 2 sailing in the Whitsundays and over to Fraser Island, then down to Moreton Island near Brisbane. Hoping to canoe everywhere and meet lots of ...
Up The Coast and Inland
... up our motor home and making our escape from Sydney and its traffic mayhem artists, we ventured north along the eastern coast of Australia. Having taken on two wayward passengers in Rose and Sonny Levay, Laurie's mom and dad, the adventure began. How two ...
I've been sooo busy...
... his staff! Now that's customer service... After a teary goodbye to the others on our safari, and the next night simply missing Australia Day because we were asleep from 8pm that evening, Tom and I made our way down to Byron Bay. A nice afternoon spent ...
Catch ups in Sydney and on to the East Coast
... . Definitely a moment I will always remember. That day we met up with Anna, who I met in St Kilda and was doing the east coast in the opposite direction, for brunch and shopping, and in the evening after some fish and chips overlooking the beach, the ...
down under
... garden in the rain. Hobart is a nice little port city, easy to walk around. I rented a car for a week and headed up the east coast, getting places to stay as I went. Started out up at the Freycinet peninsula for some beautiful hikes. I can't get over ...
East Coast Drive
... with the sound of the waves in the background. Lovely! The following day we reached our most southern point on the east coast - Nambucca Heads. We took a walk along the jetty reading the messages that locals and visitors had painted on the rock ...
Noosa, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour
... a city again but there wasn't an awful lot to do there. Then onto Byron Bay which was one of my favourite spots on the east coast. I met up with the girls from Airlie Beach (Liberty, Katie and Lisa) and some of the girls from my Fraser trip (Michelle ...
Palm Beach
... Byron for a few more day we decided that we were going to head back up to Surfers Paradise as the guys wanted to travel up the coast before heading back to Sydney. On the way we decided to take a trip to a place called Nimbin. But this is not your average ...
Brisbane to Great Keppel Island
... both feel a bit home sick. We later went to a restaurant for a "Rocky" steak. Rockhampton is the biggest beef producing area in Australia. Our dinner came out to us raw on a stone grill. Basically you cut the meat in thin strips and cook it to your ...
East Coast carnage
... I headed out for a 3 day camping safari on Fraser Island. Its something that all the travellers do as they come down the East Coast, so i had the feeling it was going to be shit, packed full of 18 year olds wearing tie dye tshirts, playing bongos ...
Still mooching around Oz
... . And there were tonnes and tonnes of flies - I wasnt sure if I was in Oz or Ethiopia for a while there. The West coast is pretty sparse - there were times when we would drive for a couple of hundred kilometres without seeing any signs of life. Then we'd ...
Mmmm, Free Food
There's really nothing better then a meal that good, cooked by someone else, and FREE! Travelling on a budget takes a little more effort then most would imagine. It's important to take advantage of any and all opportunities to get something for free, or ...
Sydney to Brisbane
Before leaving Sydney we bought a greyhound coach ticket up the East Coast, which allowed us to stop off wherever we wanted. The first few days were pretty boring. We stopped off at Newcastle and Port Macquarrie. We then moved on to Byron Bay, which ...
East coast of oz
Heading up the east coast with Donie and Ted. So far we have spent 4 nights in surfers paradise, did the Dreamworld theme park and wet n wild water park. Had a night in Brisbane and a night in Noosa. Lashed rain for most of ...
Sydney to Great Barrier Reef
... one hundred miles an hour - and he was still kicking it to go faster!!! Hilarious, but frustratingly good! Rockhampton is the East coast's Beef capital - yipppeeee, I hear you cry. We even went to a huge great several day conference, Beef 2006. How ...
Glass house mtns,australia zoo, Fraser island etc.
Next stop on our way up the coast. The Glass house mountains ans Steve Irwin Australia ...
Going South
Mon 13th Feb Time to head south on the Greyhound to my birthday wish, to see Mission Beach. After a pleasant 2hr bus ride down to Mission, we were greeted by 3 hostel shuttles to choose from. We chose the Beach Shack, as the beach is where I wanted to ...
Sydney, then up the east coast to Cairns
... the world news for any heavy rain, monsoons or other natural phenomena! The weather reporters kindly inform us that east coast Australia is currently experiencing its worst rains, flooding and weather for 28 years, the varnamtravels luck and “bad ...
Crikey!
A few highlights of the east coast - Walking in the Blue Mountains, Seeing pods of wild dolphins at Cape Byron, Avoiding eels in the beautiful Eli Creek and seeing the striking, rusted Maheno shipwreck on Fraser Island. ...
Tour de Shaw- Part 10- Road tripping
... at our disposal! Except Oz is way bigger than one imagined, and so one was far more limited than one realised. But still! We had the east coast to explore and the perfect way of doing it, with all the freedom we needed to make the most of it. First off we ...
Well done boys, well done indeed...
After the disappointment of leaving New Zealand, we manned up and threw ourselves into life in Australia straight away, with an amazing night out in Sydney our first night in the country. After being pretty overawed sitting drinking cocktails and ...
Bay of Fires and Wineglass Bay
only 2 hours from Launceston and an incredible amount of road kill on our way (not killed by us, those poor kangaroos) we arrived at the Bay of Fires. It's actually not named after the colour of the rocks but the aboriginal fires first settlers saw ...
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