St. George, Australia Travel Blogs

Billy tea in the high country
Nov 24, 2003 (8 photos)

... Land Rover and we jump on the back for tea in the high country. Just past the paddocks we spot a big brownsnake (Australia's most venomous, I believe) about 10 metres from the Land Rover, then continue up faint lines in the increasingly steep hill. As we' ...

toowooba
Nov 11, 2006 (4 photos)

The girls from the ranch had invited us to stay with them and their mum in Toowooba, a little town just west of Brisbane. So we were picked up by their Dad Bill and he kindly dropped us off there. Jenny (their Mum) was lovely. She really made us feel ...

Day 304-306 Nindigully Pub & Dirranbandi
Oct 17, 2009 (4 photos)

... to the Nindigully Hotel and when we arrived we decided to un-hitch the van, secure it but not set it up fully, but drive into St. George to have a look. Just out of St. George is a winery called Riversand, QLD’s most western winery. It is the second ...

Felt truly Australian
May 23, 2009 (35 photos)

... good walk was in order so we set off to the main shopping strip which was an easy walk down the road from our caravan park. St George is another country town where the land is fairly flat, in fact we haven’t seen a decent hill for yonks that is why ...

Nindigully Pub
Sep 20, 2006 (1 photos)

... fill with water which they then use to 'flood' the cotton. We then went out to Nindigully Pub about 44kms SE of St George, where there is free camping at the waterhole. There is absolutely nothing here, just the pub which was established in 1864 and ...

Is there a christmas this year??
Jan 2, 2006 (3 photos)

Xmas Eve Checked into the Islander Hotel which seemed quite nice. It was a hotel and backpackers in one and we got to use the hotel facilities including sauna, pool, spa etc. Got our room with 2 bunk beds, fridge, TV, balcony but NO air con. We were ...

The final leg
May 3, 2007

... visible from deck and at 2:30 we were being guided by a pilot through the narrow channel in the reef that surrounds Bermuda and into St George on the northern most island. The ocean changed, as we neared the island, from a deep blue to a bright turquoise ...

Handover and maintenance
May 7, 2007

... me after that display. I got out onto the road, though, and it was mine. I started with a circuit of the back roads beyond St George, to get used to it before trying anywhere with traffic and after a couple runs around the end of the island I was feeling ...

Leaving Nindigully
Apr 6, 2009 (4 photos)

... up 5000 kms since our ownership and our marriage has blossomed.  (and Derek's a tugger.)   So, onto Roma, where Australia's first reserves of oil and gas were discovered in 1900. Reluctantly we stayed in a caravan park so that we could ...

Out to sea again
May 11, 2007

May 8th - We cast off bright and early the next morning. This was actually extremely unusual because the new voyage crew had only arrived the previous evening and had not yet done any of their seamanship or safety training, but two cruise liners were ...

Grenada - The Spice Island
Dec 30, 2008

Arrived here at 8am.  The weather is hot and sunny.  Have looked around the town a bit - round the Spice Market mainly.  Having a great time here.  Hopefully off to the beach later for my first dip in the Caribbean sea.... Will try ...

We cross the Qld border and arrive in Toowoomba
Nov 13, 2009 (16 photos)

... at the border. After checking out the general store and the pub we had done Hebel and headed onto Dirranbandi for lunch and then St George. Here we visited the Emu Egg museum and listened to the artist give his spiel!! We phoned Raelene and Brett to let ...

Grenada - St Lucia
Mar 27, 2008

... . Gera naujiena, kad akies beveik neskauda. Pelieku cia savo batus ir maike. Batai jau buvo seni, apiplyse, o maike subraiziau St Vinventpo bruzgynuose Gulineju iki 11:00 ir vaziuoju i aerouosta tiesiai. Iki skrydzio dar 2 val. Bare uzsisakau arbatos, ...

Grenada Mt St Catherine 840 m
Mar 26, 2008 (3 photos)

... . Nuo kalno vaziuoju tiesiai i aeruosta ir cancelinu Trinidado bilietus kad veliau pagundos nebutu. Imu bilieta rytdienai atgal i St Lucia iskur poryt turiu skrydi i Londona... Viesbutyje einu i SPA )vienas kambariukas..) ir uzsisakau sau manikiura. ...

See World circumnavigation (#3)
Mar 20, 2008

See World circumnavigation (#3)

To Be A Bermudian
Oct 25, 2005

I got to spend 5 days with KK in Bermuda. We shopped, ate out, went diving, swam in a cave, and made a few trips to Hamilton for the best Pad Thai of my life! Hurricane Wilma didn't allow me to get a fabulous tan, but the wind kept our jogging and ...

Test Cruise
May 25, 2009

Gladstone and I have wanted to go to Alaska, and we thought wouldn't it be great to cruise there. We have both been on boats through out our lives, but never on a cruise. We thought a 5 day cruise would be a good test cruise, just to make sure we liked ...

Grenada
Feb 23, 2009

A very, very hot day in Grenada (high 80's / high 20's).  When it showers, it feels very warm and almost dries instantly to your skin (very refreshing).  We did some brief shopping today (Spice Islands).  Ready to head sail to Bonaire (near ...

Grenada
Dec 22, 2003

to follow

Snow Canyon
Sep 4, 2008

Snow Canyon

Grenada - land of the pissed Antipodean
Apr 17, 2007 (8 photos)

... , one fat South African, and myself were standing on the bow drinking rum and talking cricket. Once I got into St George, I fully comprehended just how different the Caribbean experience was about to become. Aussies everywhere, Kiwis everywhere. I met up ...

Bermuda
Jun 8, 1999

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Grenada
Apr 2, 2003

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