Reflection on the Sea Coolangatta

... gorge and walked 3 miles up streem, through rainforest to see the Aralven cascades and wheel of fire falls. I was up at dawn to sneek a peek at platypus in the creeks below the gorge but to no avail.
We drove allday on 22nd went through Rockhampton and stayed within a short drive of Gladstone.
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Gladstone town has another hilltop lookout in the centre (Auckland Hill), sufficient to see all around. It's a typical Queensland town for its industry. A port ...

... like a new semester is upon me. Although give it another 48 hours and I'm sure I'll tell you otherwise! However, for my roommates these are the last few days of freedom before they have to dust off the books and calculators. So we made our last weekend of vacation an eventful one! Thursday night Matt and I normally have dinner with some of our friends, but this week we postponed it, allowing for us and Jess to cross the river for a toga party at the RE. The place was ...

... walked over a mile too far! Tamping! With such relief, we eventually found the campervan and decided to head towards Byron Bay. We stopped half way at a beautiful surf beach in Coolangatta called Snapper Point. It's a world class surfers beach and you could see why! Awesome! We spent the evening watching the surfers in the sunset and opted for an early night without any goon, just in case the cops moved us on. Nite Nite xxx

... rate was very good. The hotel was lovely and it was so quick to get there as the Gold Coast Airport is small and Air Asia X is the only long haul airline flying there.

... nice and we did a short one and saw a number of wild turkeys. On our way out of the park, we stopped at a spot to get some pics of a nice waterfall. Then we were on to our final night back in Port Macquarie. The next day was rainy and cool, so we walked around the town shops, ate some lunch and then headed out for "Ton of Fun" a little park where the kids were able to do go karts and quad rides (probably their favorite part of the trip ...

... to Wet and Wild, a pretty good water park but again it rained. The highlights of the day was seeing Amanda go down the Kamikaze sitting up straight, which panicked the lifeguard at the top of the slide and Shipley thinking he had won on the slide where you can race each other only to be given a false start. After that we decided to head straight down to Byron Bay. Which we had been told is everything Surfers is not.

... to join in & jam with them. I asked one of the locals if I could join in & with that he stood up & handed me his drum...sweet as I thought, so sat down & banged my heart out...very cool. I'm really looking forward to New Zealand in just over a week, but for now next stop is Melbourne, so I guess I will speak to you on the south side of Oz guys... Sweet as.... (man I love saying that) Laters BIG Love to Taymar & James xx

... passed and didn't have to rebook bus tickets or change our plans. We completed the skills test and got on the boat. It was so good to be on board! I was knackered. I sat there, pale and shivering. I wanted a stiff drink and a warm towl, and i knew I didn't have access to either. Niko got up. 'So what were you trying to tell me on the coral?' he asked me when everyone was back up. 'That there was a shark behind you,' I said warily, and ...

... southern Australia. The trip is as follows: 27 October - fly from Brisbane to Launceston 28/29 October - Cradle Mountain 30 October - bus from Launceston to Hobart; explore Hobart and Port Arthur 31 October - fly from Hobart to Sydney; mosey around Sydney a few days (and of course go to Bondi Beach!) 4 November - fly from Sydney to Gold Coast airport in Coolangatta I've looked through my Lonely Planet book a bunch and will keep looking between now and October to figure out what to do ...

... else. It was a good job we had the first England match too look forward to. Because of the time difference it started at 11 and we watched it on TV in a nightclub (not the best location for it!). A bit of a disapointing performance after a promising start, good old england. Then we boogied the night away until the early hours, and finished our visit off the next morning with a good old $10 all-you-can-eat breakfast before getting on the coach once more to go north again.