Best Western Golden Harvest Warwick

OCTOBER 16 2009 <br>Goomburra Valley Camp Ground via Warwick<br>Mileage: 4229. $22 per night with all facilities and power.<br><br>Private ground, well kept and supervised. We decided to do some housekeeping as we had electricity for the first time in 2 weeks; so washing large items, charging batteries, down loading photos and putting our travels into a "word document" to later upload to Travelpod ...

... this, and hung around under there for a few hours. Sure enough, around 11am, he darted out and started sprinting around like lightening and catching bugs to eat. Marvelous! Okay, so lizards out the way, I set out to make porridge for breakfast, and had just sat down to eat when a trio of noisy minors landed at my feet and wandered around my cookware, under my seat and up and down my tent ropes, seemingly unaware I was there. One of them ...

... named by Captain Cook to warn seamen of the offshore reefs, is the first part of mainland OZ to be touched by the sun each day. It was a 9km climb return hike and the last 200 meters or so is extremely steep, so that you are actually rock climbing and you need to use the chains that have been fitted to the cliff face to help you! From the top we could see literaly for ...

... You feel like a king when you've climbed a mountain, but that feeling quickly disappears when you realize that you have to climb back down. That night back at the hostel, feeling like I've conquered the moon, I was treated to an award-winning sleep. That's not something to be underestimated; when you're sharing a room with six other snoring, ******* travelers, a good sleep is nearly always evasive. But not that night, hell no ...

... meet the group at the Transit Centre in Surfers, a few blocks away from my place. There were 8 of us total and two guides. Another American, a German, a woman from "Dutchie-Land" as one guide called Amsterdam, two Canadians and an Englishman. We seemed to be the youngest (well, Kayla was) tho there was a college kid there. We drove to the Gold Coast Hinterland and did a short walk to a waterfall through the thick of the rainforest before lunch and then a few-hour, few ...

... her 5 year old son arrived home from school with the school bus in the afternoon, so by this point I'd had my full introduction to the family and been briefed on what their day to day activities involve. The next day I woke to begin my first day of working in the garden. Fiona needed some plants transplanted so I set to work with my gloves on with my eyes peeled for spiders and snakes (even though I had been told that they were sleeping now ...

... work the following week and therefore wouldn't be able to finish the full course to get my license I swore to pick up from where I left off when I returned to England. The taster I had experienced had got me well and truly hooked and I can't wait to get my license so that I can start living more in the 3rd dimension that until now had just been know as up there. Heavens got more than just a half pipe! It's got a giant playground.

... rave and a house party. It was really lound and full of people yet everyone was getting along talking to each other and just chillin. Spent the next couple of days in byron and it was awesome. I am going back, i have promised myself, for at least 2 months on my one year work visa in australia. Went to surfers paradise after that, and although it was awesome it didnt compare to byron. It was way to rich and touristy, it was like hawaii, la ...

... were truly speechless at the magnificence of the scenery. Traipsing across a suspended bridge, we were led to an enormous fig tree, stretching 30 meters into the rainforest canopy above us. Once we crossed the swinging bridge and reached the tree, we were able to climb up to two different levels by means of a ladder surrounded with a wire grid for safety. The top most level led to a dazzling sight overlooking the rainforest and stretching out far towards some mountains. After a ...

... a rather overgrown track through a gracious stand of tallow-woods and through some lush bush - a bit further than Alex and Marion have ever been themselves, so it was an explorative walk for them too. Alex has been mapping out the property with his GPS, but unfortunately, at our furthest point, we realised the thing had not been tracking our movements for quite some time. The day grew steadily hotter, and by the time we returned from our walk at 11.30-ish the sun was beating ...