Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort Moreton Island

The final phase of our adventure included 6 weeks in Australia and New Zealand. Many of you know that Australia is where it all began for us almost 4 years ago. For those who may not know the story, we were both taking an international business class that was focused on Australia and required spending 2 weeks in this wonderful country for research. We were there in March of 2001 and our trip overlapped with St. Patty's Day. It was on that day that Mark "made his move" and surprised me with a ...

Morton Island is a stunning sand island similar to that of Fraser. We were staying at Tangalooma resort, which is popular for its wild dolphin feeding. We spent an amazing day exploring the island in our own 4wd jeep. We drove all the way around Morton island mainly on the beach - trying to avoid the billions of crabs that resided on the beaches - an absolutely incredible sight, almost as if the whole beach was moving - cutting through bush land now and then, really putting the 4WD to the tes...

Redcliff Murray and Jo Dempsey (Grant's brother and family) live in Redcliff, just North of Brisbane. It's a great spot just a few streets back from the beach with walkways, and swimming area right on the doorstep. We arrived in Redcliff just in time for cousin Harry's 7th Birthday. The kids don't get to have birthdays together so it was great to be together as a family. Stan, Grant's dad was already there helping with some renovations, so it was a cosy squeeze but lots of fun. Murray and Jo ...

On Wednesday morning I got up very bright and early to wait under a road overpass for the Goanna Adventures tour to Moreton Island. There were 10 of us on the tour, though I was the only one staying overnight with the Tangalooma wild dolphins, and we all squashed into a 4-wheel drive Land Cruiser for the day. Moreton Island is the world's 3rd-biggest sand island (number 1 is Fraser Island, to its north, and number 2 is North Stradbroke Island, immediately to its south) and there are no roads,...

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Qantas are doing some cheap 'interstate' deals at the moment to combat Vigin Blue (go Tricky) and co, so Scott found a very cheap flight to Brisbane (well cheap till you doubled it for tax...) so off we went. Brisbane is like Brighton in the way that you couldn't possibly stay for just 1 night - you have to pay for a minimum of two, in most places anyway so we had already booked the flights and had to then spend a ridiculous amount of time searching for somewhere to stay. In the end we found ...

We arrived in Brisbane on Sunday, but don't ask us what date that was, we have visited so many places in the last 4 weeks that we don't even know what day it is half the time, let alone what date. As we drove from Noosa the rain started and by the time we got here it was awful. Sunday was a very miserable day, walking around in the pouring rain and to add insult to injury the majority of places were shut. So first impressions were not very favourable. It is weird thing about Australia that ev...

Day 163 - Noosa Despite residing in the local YHA (again full of weirdos) we've felt more like we're living a life of luxury in Noosa. Not that we've been spending a fortune but at least we've been able to look round galleries and do things we haven't been able to for what seems like an eternity. Noosa's size prevents this from lasting more than half a day however and by the afternoon we were restricted to more traditional Australian culture. "The Big Shell" was disappointingly small and we f...

We were back to Dockside for 3 days while students had classes and we were off to a beach area this time. What a treat for us to be one week at the Outback in the middle of Australia and the next week we were off to a beach! We loaded our luggage at 6:35 am. Nevil, our bus driver, took us through town to the dock in Brisbane to Tangalooma. It was about one hour by catamaran. We saw a school of blue jellyfish looked like huge mushroom heads with short tentacles. The Tangalooma Resort has a bea...

Just got back from our island getaway yesterday and have now moved up to the sunshine coast, which in actual fact is only an hours drive north of Brisbane. First things first, let me tell you all about tangalooma (aboriginal for 'where the fishes gather') which is the holiday resot we stayed at on Moreton Island which is just of the coast of Brisbane. The island itself is actually the third largest sand island in Australia (or the world even) which means it is actually quite big and 98% sand ...