Pumicestone Blue Caloundra

... huge jaws around the meat. It was pretty impressive.<br><br>The other highlight of the day was the tiger show... the keepers go in with the tigers and spend all day playing and lying with them. The show was a play session with three tigers, the keeper waved various objects around and the tigers chased and pounced on them. At one point one of the tigers climbed up a pole, but the best bit was the jumps! The keeper ran round ...

... We saw some fab creatures and we waited on a rock for 30 minutes as we had seen something run away from us. Our time was wasted as the little bugger stayed put!!!!<br><br>On Sunday we went out for breakfast (believe it or not this is the first breakfast we have ate out and boy did we make up for it!) We went to a place called Sizzler which does an all you can eat brunch on a Sunday. It was amazing and surprisingly Emma beat Ben 4 plates to 3 which ...

... who are all on the Oz Ex bus only two are going South and know the other girl who is going North like me. They know each other from home but have included me which is nice. On Thursday we all went to the beach together which was good. I had someone who wasnt a total stranger who could put suncream on my back so I can finally sunbathe like that!! Being on my own, i dont trust myself to do my back properly so I always lie on my back!! We had a few ...

... met de storm. Man en macht zijn in volle gang om de stranden olie vrij te krijgen, dieren worden verzorgd etc. Dit is de eerste olie ramp in de geschiedenis van Australie. Ze zijn er hier daarom ook erg van ondersteboven. Maar het duurt nooit lang voordat ze weer kalmeren en ze weer met overtuiging roepen: No Worries! Geen zorgen, is allemaal oké, geen vuiltje aan de lucht ;-)

South and West to the Outback So we all headed out in our camper van, South towards Bribane. The first day we stopped at a small town south of Mackay named Sarina. Nice quiet spot, lush and green, and the kids swam of course! Brian saw a few kangaroos on the roadside, lots of squished ones! A few things that are different here: They really do say "G'day mate, and How ya goin" Give way = merge Overtake = passing lane Of course driving on the left hand ...

... from a different view!!), lake wabbi (an amazing lake with a massive sand hill on one side, white sand and the rainforest on the other), and finally lake mckenzie. as i said we just made the ferry, with the other vans getting very anxious. all in all i had an amazing time. it was so much fun all the time and every minute is a new adventure!!! thanks so much hel and siobhan, i loved it!!! so i get a night bus tonight to airlie beach to do my whitsundays sailing adventure!!im so excited.xx

... a sudden the captain speeds up. So now the boat is going faster then normal and still no explanation. Nobody saw anything and we started coming up with a bunch of ideas... was it another smaller boat? A Whale? A channel marker Buoy? We kept going and we got into the Brisbane river were your suppose to slow down and not create a wake and the ferry was flying into port. We finally slowed down, docked real quick and they got us all off the boat as quick as ...

... cold but you get used to it, and i even managed to read some of my book ! In the photo's you will see some jets of water in a play area, Ellen wanted to wash the sand off herself under these until she realized that they were harder than she thought, unfortunately for her Zoe was there to make sure she did it :) but Zoe didn't expect to get so wet herself !! Hello to everyone at home

... melbourne. however, it has occured to us that this is the equivelent of driving from florida to maine on back roads. the drives have been taking us alot longer than we expected. so after port mc quarie we started to look for other options than the whitsunday islands. jason came up with the idea to go to 1770, a town at the southern tip of the great barrier reef known for ...

... There was an impressive suspended wire sculpture which hopefully you can see in the picture... The science center had the smallest ship to sail single-handed around the world, and its obvious the guy was certifiably insane. Just the relatively calm seas we experienced would roll that thing around like a cork top. On the last day I bought my backpack in preparation for the next portion of my trip- it's quite ...