Gympie, Australia Travel Blogs

Dickie Beach
Dec 5, 2006 (22 photos)

... watched surfers riding waves, found somewhere to eat and got a decent nights sleep as tomorrow we plan to spend part of the day at Australia Zoo and make it to Brisbane where we will be dropping off the car.Not exactly sure where it is on the map so may ...

Sunshine At Last!
Oct 10, 2003 (4 photos)

... 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, upon ...

Brisbane to 85km from Gympie - Day 220
Sep 29, 2008

... after my enjoyable drive in the hills. Passed through Brisbane again and managed to drive as far as 85km south of Gympie. I'll probably reach Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday islands over the next week before driving south again. After extending my car ...

Breakdown
Feb 7, 2008 (2 photos)

... creek which came up over the wheels.  But we made it out, the car seemed to be working fine.  We made it in to Gympie and bummed around town for a while and used the internet for a while.  We ate a whole chicken in the mall.  We left ...

Heading slightly North
Nov 29, 2006 (9 photos)

... in a rest area for the night. We bought a book called Camps 3 that shows all the budget camp site / rest areas throughout Australia. This has come in really handy and even has many places that don't cost anything to stay but still have facilities like ...

Widgee
Sep 24, 2007 (2 photos)

... my best. I'll also try to upload some pictures tonight! I've been on one farm for a weeks training in Widgee, outside of Gympie. Had a really good time. The nicest people Joe, Joey and Diana, and I felt almost like home. It's a really nice area with ...

around aussie
Jul 3, 2006

We are about to start our around aussie trip we are going to head off to the centre of Aussie and we are going to travel through the middle of Queensland and hopefully we want to go to Carnavan National Park but the only worry is that there is school ...

Rainy day in Boondall
Jan 4, 2007

Not much to do today on a rainy day in Boondall, other than work on the computer.  We updated the travelpod, added pictures, saved our pictures to disk, and looked up additional travel info.  After sitting on the computer all day.  I ...

A day to get organized
Jan 5, 2007

We were up early again.  I worked on out trip around Australia, it is quite difficult deciding where you want to go, when and what direction first.  So we decide to go south first, we still don't know if we will be hiring a car, or taking a bus ...

medienmacht und marktwirtschaft
Jun 11, 2006

... bin natuerlich doch nicht in RB geblieben sondern wir wollten nach Childers trampen um dort Arbeit zu finden. Sind dann aber in Gympie haengen geblieben weil die Frau an der Pommesbude wusste wos da arbeit gab. Susi ham wir verloren weil die zurueck zu ...

Catch up with the past
Oct 15, 2008 (3 photos)

... wonderful to see the amazing transformation of their home which is set amongst natural grasses and mango trees with a view of the Gympie valley.  The children enjoyed fun filled days with Jess and Dan.  Dan and Matt patiently taught us to surf ...

Australia Zoo
Jan 11, 2008 (19 photos)

Crikey! Yep, Steve Irwin might be gone but he sure lives on in this place. A bit over commercialised, true, but it's very interactive and the keepers come round to introduce you to their animals, and seem genuinely interested in what they do.

Rest Area Just Northeast of Gympie
Oct 25, 2008 (2 photos)

The Rest Area Just Northeast of Gympie was not obvious, I asked a lady selling fish and she got us there, It was at a garage when they just hada field we could just park up anywhere, there was a horse in the field who was very intreued by my tent - she ...

thunderstorm
Nov 17, 2008

We left Coffs harbour this morning and decided to drive to surfers paradise... got there and it was starting to get cloudy and we heard there was a storm on its way so decided to drive to Brisbane. Then it started raining/thunder & lightening so we ...

Rainbow Beach
Feb 17, 2007 (5 photos)

We left Noosa today and got on the bus to Rainbow Beach where we all had a go at Boomerang throwing and playing the didgeridoo, I can't say I was great at either!! We had a pretty chilled afternoon looking round town but there really wasn't a lot here! ...

Gympie
Apr 14, 2003

Gympie

GYMPIE
Jun 16, 2008 (3 photos)

... were told it was coming from the Nescafe factory which was not far from the park. There is also still a working gold mine in Gympie run by Eldorado Mine Limited which still mines 25,000ozs gold per year. Our plan today was to ride "The Valley Rattler" ...

Random
Jul 22, 2009 (5 photos)

... course a last minute swim in Mamara.Not many photos taken:( Once we landed in Brisbane, we went to Sara and Clacy's house in Gympie then spent the day with them before flying out to Mackay. Just been doing the catch up thing with the nieces and nephews - ...

Surf Comp
Oct 8, 2006 (9 photos)

Justin and I shut down the office at 12:30 and left to go watch Bosco compete in a local surf competition, despite the fact that we were expecting an 18-person group to arrive for check-in at any moment. Just put up the "Will Return" sign with the clock ...

Rainbow Beach to Gympie (and home comforts)...
Dec 4, 2007

... and then Chris offered to show us around the farm that Jane owns and he runs for her, which is about half an hours drive from Gympie in a place called Kandanga.  He took us in his land rover and to be quite honest we had an amazing time.  He took ...

Christmas Day
Dec 25, 1995

Christmas, but not as you know it.

Jeep safari crazyness
Dec 4, 2007

... nbsp; It was a great start to the trip.  Day 2 started really early - the birds get up at stupid o clock everywhere in australia and the sun too so the tent was really hot and the forest was really noisy lol! I did however have to venture for the ...

Country Life
Oct 25, 2009 (60 photos)

... . Because I stayed with them for a while, I really got to know what it's like to be part of a rural community in Australia. And I met more Australians than I ever would have if I'd been working on a commercial farm and staying hostels. Most of the time, it ...

Gympie
Mar 27, 2007

gympie

going north to gympie
Apr 20, 2009 (2 photos)

After a night of drinking and packing the bus for our trip north to Gympie. We had booked a camp site in a forest with no water and power just to try out our solar power on the bus. The guy that we booked the trip through told us to take the northern ...

Trip on the Gympie steam train, The Valley Rattler
Oct 26, 2008

... 46kms to go! Fortunately the train does not depart until 10:00, so we still have plenty of time!!! (Thank goodness!) Gympie station has been totally renovated to its previous glory and takes our minds back to childhood when stations looked like this and ...

Gympie is Stupid
Jul 12, 2009

... I really wanted in the first place. The folks there were only too happy to listen to stories of my traveling around Australia visiting high schools, but as soon as I mentioned my growing apprehension about the affluence of the West and my plans to spend ...

Dolphins!
Jul 13, 2009

This morning I got up very early and raced off to Tin Can Bay, where they have wild dolphins to feed!!! It is supposedly free, but in reality they ask for a gold coin donation and give you a very grim stare if you don’t have a gold coin, but that ...