Best Western Ambassador Mtr Hervey Bay

... I didn't want to stop looking at it - but falling asleep on the beach wouldn't have been Dingo Safe.<br><br>Thursday was an early start thanks to the sun on the tents, and a long walk down the beach and through the forest to Lake Wabby which sits at the bottom of a giant sand dune. Afternoon involved driving north to a wreck of a huge boat, and Eli Creek. We'd be looking so ...

... really just yellow, organge and brown to you and me) we were dropped off at the start of a sand path trail which beginning at the beach and leading to Lake Wabbi- a natural lake situated between the rainforest habitat of the island and a sandune that is slowly travelling inland from the sea to fill it in. It's a good 25 minute walk through the twig laden sand path (covered shoes instead of flipflops would have been useful here as they don't kick the sand up ...

... all** Bild** dort zu mogeln! :-) Nachdem wir dort (so gut wie möglich) Fotos gemacht hatten, brachte uns d** Guide als nächstes zum Indian Head, einem Aussichtspunkt auf ein** Klippe direkt üb** dem Me** &#8211; hi** kann man normal**weise sehr gut das maritime Wildlife beobachten &#8211; ab** heute ist ja Wochenende, da hatten Wale, Haie, Rochen und Schildkröten wohl auch frei! Schön war d** Blick trotzdem! Nachdem wir uns wied** nach unten gekämpft hatten ...

Hello from Oz. Looks like the blog from Christchurch may have not been published properly, so you may well be getting these two blogs simultaneously, after wondering why you hadn't heard from us for some time.<br><br><br>Anyway, we have been in Oz for just over a week now and it has been probably the best week of our travels so far.<br><br>We flew into Brisbane, but only had just over a day there, so went to the Lone Pine koala sanctuary. Here they have 130 of the little marsupials ...

... have a point during the day when you've finished whatever activity you were doing during the day and have time to waste until whatever you are going to do at night and the internet is a good way to fill that time. Now I'm hooked on facebook (as well as being thoroughly confused by) that makes things worse. <br><br>I'm off to 1770 today to stay in Cool Bananas,. lets hope it lives up to its name as the coolest hostel in Aus! :)

... decided where yet. We looked into hiring a camper van but its just to expensive, so just going to stick to the buses for now. We found a internet cafe who again charged $4 per hour but at least his internet was fast enough to update some photos. <br>We feel fully refreshed after a chill out day and our bags had their first good sort out since the middle of Thailand. <br><br>Gaz &amp; LJ<br>

... main resorts located on the Island that actually take you around, whilst staying in the resort. There are also many other companies that take you around for day trips. An alternative is the self drive option where you rent a 4WD vehicle you can camp or stay in the resorts, also guided tours with the option to camp. <br><br>I will be posting a number of pics on Facebook so look out for them. <br><br>Just some interesting information about Fraser Island, it was ...

... sand island. I booked a 2 day trip, guided. You can do self drive as well where you get put into groups of people but I'd heard too many horror stories about crazy people and people crashing and paying big that I thought guided would be better. <br><br>The roads on Fraser island aren't paved. They're just sand so it can be tricky to drive them. Day 1 we checked out central station (where they did some logging way back when), did a rainforest hike, visited a lookout (where ...

Fraser Island lies just off the coast of Queensland to the South. All I knew before I arrived was that it was an island of sand so I didn't really know what to expect! We arrived at the ferry terminal within good time after making a short stop to the local supermarket to stock up on supplies mainly in the form of alcohol! After a bit of fussing around with tickets and que jumping (there were a few eager types!) we made our way through the turnstiles and finally onto the ferry.<br><br ...