Tully, Australia Travel Blogs

white water rafting
Apr 8, 2006

White Water Rafting on the River Tully($145), grade 4 rapids. excellent fun, callum our tour guide, Nick and Pat straight out at first rapid, only boat to lose someone. We all fell out on one where we all lay at the very front of the raft, very funny and ...

Mission Beach #2 and Tully
Oct 8, 2008

... of us were jumpin in and out of the water whenever we could lol. Tully river's meant to be the best place to waterraft in australia - we went down loads of rapids - more than i thought we would, it turned out to be a whole day thing that was really ...

Tully River Whitewater rafting
Jan 6, 2009

... to get the other night that I was ok with it.  This time I got the other dish I was debating on getting before- the pasta puttanesca.  It was just as good as I expected it to be.  I was happy. Tomorrow: Last day in Australia, first day in New Zealand

Tully
Feb 12, 2007 (2 photos)

Am Mittwoch konnte ich zwar noch nicht weiterfahren, aber ab Donnerstag fuhren dann wieder Busse. Jetzt bin ich in Tully und arbeite auf einer Bananenfarm. Die Arbeit ist eigentlich gamz in Ordnung, am ersten Tag habe ich die schlechten Bananen aussortiert ...

Wallaman Falls
Apr 28, 2008 (2 photos)

The main stop we made between Airlie Beach and Tully was at the 268m high Wallaman Falls.

I believe i can FLY!!
Feb 8, 2008 (4 photos)

... ) - all the while guides were talking about things......I couldnt absorb any of it, too busy trying to remember how to breathe!! Arrived at Tully airport (blink and you miss it) and was told to buckle up and get ready for the ride!!  After 2 mins ...

On A Mission
Oct 5, 2006 (6 photos)

The next stop after one more night in Cairns on the way back down the coast was Mission beach!! Mission beach is where the grade 5 rafting takes place which is the highest rating open to the public so everyone was really excited. On the night of ...

White Water Rafting on the Tully River
Jun 30, 2009 (6 photos)

Adrenaline-inducing grade 4 rapids on the Tully river. The grades go up to 6, but apparently that's considered suicide. Think we did really well for first timers!

Rafting in the Rainforest
May 15, 2009 (10 photos)

... cold so she didn't partake.     Probably the highlight of my trip so far was whitewater rafting on the Tully River.  Now I was rafting in the Ottawa River last summer but this actually put that to shame.  We went through grade 4 ...

Rafting on the Tully River
Mar 25, 2008 (1 photos)

... Balloon voucher that I got for my leaving/sabbatical present from Adviva. We booked a white water rafting day on the Tully River, which is Australia's most famous one-day white water rafting experience. It was 5 hours of rafting over grade 4 rapids, 45 in ...

hold on.... will update soon. airlie beach was fun
Aug 18, 2009

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White water rafting
Aug 13, 2009 (7 photos)

... taste. Played soccer on mission beach with other backpackers. August 13th. I booked a rafting trip today with raging thunder in tully australia. Rafting 9am-3pm. the instructor purposely flipped us over once. and some parts we just got out of the raft and ...

Tully - Vida de Chico Bento
Mar 24, 2006

... de acucar. Cidade do interior mesmo, rua principal, centrinho e poucas casas ao redor. Muita gente viaja pela Australia fazendo trabalho sazonal. Va'rias nacionalidades sao vistas (desde que possua visto para trabalho). Vi muitos ingleses, irlandeses, ...

Some Well-earned R and R...
May 20, 2007

... guys, not Rest and Relaxation.  I did that yesterday. Today, I was up with the dawn again and off to the Tully river to see the rainforest from the river and tackle some grade four rapids (team manouvering and the possibility of being capsized by ...

We all love Bananas
Feb 8, 2006 (3 photos)

... shops. The town is set in between two mountains, covered in lush rainforest, therefore it rains. A LOT. Infact, Tully is the wettest place in Australia, receiving 8m of rain a year. It's actually quite beautiful as it's so green. There are lots of local ...

White Water Rafting - Tully River
Oct 10, 2005 (26 photos)

Photos only so far!

Here's larry
Apr 17, 2006 (7 photos)

... thing was approx 300km wide, so we were in for a bashing. Bridget and Ross, the caravan park owners told us we couldn't leave Tully and that the police wouldn't let us leave on the roads. So we told them we were popping to the supermarket - with the car ...

White-water rafting on the tully river our ...
Jul 10, 2002 (2 photos)

White-water rafting on the Tully River... Our day started early - a 6.45am pick-up from our hotel in Cairns. The drive to Tully would take a couple of hours if you include picking up all the 117 others that were going on this trip today. We got a ...

River wild!!
Feb 6, 2008

... , i hvertfall i dag, naar jeg skulle treffe Cathrine her i Cairns. Den eneste kvelden vi er paa samme sted her i Australia! Telefonen var borte vekk og jeg mistenkte sterkt mine avreiste roommates. Det viste seg at vaskedama hadde plukket den med seg da ...

Nearly all the way to the top
Mar 10, 2007

We were up really early today as we had to be at the airport for 7:20 as Loz was due to do his 14,000 feet skydive today. We got there on time however it was all delayed because the weather wasn't that great, he finally got the go ahead at 1:00pm, I'm ...

Hot and Wet
Mar 8, 2007

... . We stopped at a number of Creeks and waterfalls but the best was the Wallaman Falls which is the biggest single drop waterfall in Australia and blimey was it impressive. It was really nice, so much so that we decided to do the walk to the bottom, why is ...

Tully- The big gumboot and white water rafting
Aug 10, 2009 (10 photos)

As said we arrived late in the day at the Greenacres Caravan Park. The Park we stayed in felt like a bit of a refugee camp with all the overseas banana workers and their make shift camp sites. The front office was also more like a make shift asian grocer ...

wieder mal auf Jobsuche, diesmal in Bananacountry
Jun 25, 2009 (33 photos)

... allem dafuer, dass es da Arbeit gibt! Also sind wir nach etwa einer Woche, wenigstens zum Versuch, Jobsuche in Cairns nach Tully runtergefahren und haben uns in unserem Hostel erkundigt, wo und wie man nen Job bekommen kann. Der Mann bei unserem Hostel ...

White Water Rafting
Apr 5, 2006 (3 photos)

... Tours and it was amazing!! We took off from the hotel at 06.35am (!!!) and then picked up some other people to go to the Tully River. I think the total rafting time was about 5 hours... super cool! Before we went rafting we had to sign a piece of paper on ...

A Day of Intense Rafting
Apr 7, 2009 (6 photos)

I had an intense day white water rafting on the Tully River.  The day was incredible and I am absolutely exhausted.  I'm headed to bed.  Goodnight from halfway around the world. I joined Raging Thunder Adventure Company in search of ...

road trip 3
Jan 10, 2007

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Tully - der wirklich echte Arsch der Welt!!!
Apr 21, 2008 (4 photos)

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Tully
Jul 19, 2007

... to symbalise the amount of rain they had in the wettest year in Tully's history, this place is supposidly the wettest place in Australia (We didn't see a drop of rain in our 5day stay) You can climb up the boot so we've got a couple of piccy ...

Tully River Rafting
Nov 15, 2006

... Rafting Met het team van Raging Thunder naar de Tully River om een dag te raften: heerlijk actief peddelen en plensen. De Tully River is een rivier met derde en vierde graads rapids erin. Het extreme gedeelte betekent dat je een beetje lol maakt door ...

White Water Rafting on the Tully River
Oct 24, 2007 (8 photos)

Could of had a better day, form peaceful crusing along through canyons high walls, enjoying the sun and tying to take in the beautiful views to holding on for dear life and paddling faster than I though my arms could go on the rapids. Hightlight ...