Country Comfort International Bundaberg

Friday saw the completion of the unit at Coolum, so we drove over there to have lunch with John and Mardi with a guest appearance of Steve and Carol. The unit looked magnificent. It had all its finishing touches put in place and we sat down to a lovely lunch of white wine and seafood.<br><br> <br>On the Saturday we visited some old hash friends, Cone and Rummy. They live in a jungle surrounded house on the outskirts of ...

... opened Hinkler Hall of Aviation which celebrates pioneer solo aviator Bert Hinkler. By age 19 he had hand-built man-carrying gliders and flew them successfully at Mon Repos Beach. He created many aviation records the most renowed being a pioneer solo flight from England to Australia in 1928 and the world's first solo flight across the South Atlantic in 1931.<br><br>His original home in England has also been transported to Bundaberg ...

... waren und wir somit auch ohne diese auskommen mussten. Aber das hatte sich ja ab 1 Uhr dann sowieso erübrigt. Ursprünglich wollten wir nachts noch nach Bundaberg fahren, es war aber stockduster und wirklich unheimlich auf den Straßen. Wir hatten nur noch Benzin für rund 100km im Tank und als ein Schild kam: "Bundaberg 110km" haben wir umgedreht und sind nach Maryborough zurück gefahren. Irgendwie hatten wir beide ein mulmiges Gef ...

... up in Caboolture, and we discovered that mys uitcase had decided to pack it in and the rolling handle wouldn't go back in its plce, so I went over to Chermside to buy a slightly bigger backpack for the train today and instead walked away with a better bag to repack my suitcse into. I had been thinking about using one of these bags the whol time I've been avoiding packing over the last few weeks/months so I'm still happy with what I got...<br><br>I visited Grandma, said hello, turned the ...

Okay, so I officially hate Bundaberg. Actually, I hated Bundaberg within about five minutes of arriving. The first problem was the information centre. Most towns have glorious sign posts for kilometres, telling you where the information centre is and how to get there, but not in Bundaberg! Here, there is one woeful sign saying the information centre in 400m ahead... which appears only after you have already driven through most of the town ...

... turtle already had in her. Unfortunately the turtle has come from Chile and as she left the beach to swim back there she has decided she doesnt have the energy to swim back alone so will be basically eating the eggs inside her for energy. She therefore laid her last set of eggs in front of us and left the beach where she will only come back in 9 years or so to lay another set. The turtles are so amazingly clever they know where they were born and ...

... settled, g peered out for a while to see what he was doing and he just say there then after about 5 mins got out his van and and got a bottle of coke out the back then drove off ! We also parked right next to some sprinklers which sprayed the van after about an hour and freaked us out again haha. Anyway we set off at 6am, got some coffee in a 24hr diner then g drove all the way to Mackay. The weather is much better here at the moment ...

... days with swollen lymph nodes in a saliva gland, not Mumps. I had been to the doctors earlier last week for a sore lump on the side of my neck followed by an ultrasound and blood tests. I was due to go back to the Doc at 2.30pm that same day, Friday. My lump had actually grown bigger, it was very sore, it throbbed big-time, I found it very difficult to chew or swallow solid food or even to open my mouth too far and I had a major headache. I had been living on Panadol for the ...

... animals in australia we small and "wimpy" and they wanted something tough. the polar bear stuck. It was an interesting tour. We then drove for the rest of the afternoon to a place called Beerwah which is home to the Australia Zoo. The next day we went to the Zoo. There were signs for the Zoo everywhere and they all had Steve Irwin's face on them and lots said "criky!" At the Zoo they charged a ridiculus ...

... room (keeping in mind I was paying about A$85 a week in Christchurch for my own double room!) and said they had seasonal work available. True to their word I was on the list to work the next day picking cherry tomatoes. At 5:15. Yes, I was gonna have to get up. Oddly enough I was fine with waking up at 4:45am. Especially since it had been raining constantly since 1am and I figured work would be impossible so would be canceled. However, one of the ...