Rainbow Torquay

Backpacking 3 months through Australia

My epic adventure that took me to Hong Kong then on to the land down under. I spent most of the trip in Queensland but sneaked in a trip from Alice Springs to Melbourne before jetting off to China to extend the trip home a little, but thats another blog ...

This is a travel blog for my upcomming (Nov 27th) trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. It will take roughly 3 and a half months (minimum) and starts in Sydney. Other than that, its all up in the air. Definately the best way to backpack. After all ...

welcome

Around he world

We are now at Rainbow Beach we started our journey on the Northern Beaches of Sydney at Narrabeen and then travelled north along the east coast to the Gold Coast of Queensland and then to the Sunshine Coast and now we are on the Frazer Coast, we will be ...

... of ages and personalities, some nicer than others. Good group, Christine was there again sot hat was nice. Our first stop was Torquay, home of quicksilver and ripcurl. The shops were really expensive but then there were the outlets where its was 50% off ...

... (vom Baecker) zurueck gekehrt. Dann waren wir noch auf der anderen Seite des Nationalparks, dort spazieren und sind dann weiter nach Rainbow Beach gefahren. Wen habe ich da wohl getroffen? Mic, na klar. Wir haben uns aber nur kurz zu gewunken. Er musste ...

... back to Milly in the afternoon, smug with the satisfaction of having just witnessed something truly magical. Watching the sunset over Torquay beach again we understood just why people fall in love, with and in, Hervey Bay :) p.s. Following our ...

... . I just walked past loads of homes, caravan parks and a school, that said - this place is definitely bigger than Rainbow Beach. Today (Thursday) I did nothing! I just wanted to completely chill before meeting Jen in Bundaberg tomorrow so I packed my ...

... -average wave roll in over her sneakers and lower pant legs.  From Apollo Bay we went alongside the Great Ocean towards Torquay, seeing numerous sites where folks were surfing and swimming and the waves were crashing in almost to the road.  At ...

... sunset, or as it turned out, another shower! Were some impressive rainbows on the way but unfortunately couldn't get a photo with rainbow and 12 apostles. We also wanted to stay until after the sunset as apparently all the penguins come in from the sea ...

... present for $40, but Max’s grin said it all. He was one happy camper with a new looking BMX bike. After coffee at Torquay bay beach (nothing like our Torquay surf beach) we quickly got back to the van to begin pack up. Max and Maegs rode around the ...

... where we purchased a few items we could  have really done with out but Ann did buy a rather bright ethnic top (very Rainbow Warrior). Obviously a latent Hippie, it does look nice on her seeing it is her birthday very soon! After looking around lots ...

... money utterly amazing. We headed back to the van and cooked up a BBQ fest for us on yet another stunning beach.    Distance Rainbow Beach - Tin Can Bay - 39km - driving time 45 mins Tin Can Bay - Hervey Bay - 105km - drive time 2 hours   ...

... road ten minutes later heading towards the Great Ocean Road – the 243 km long stretch of road that hugs the coast between Torquay and Warrnambool on Victoria's South coast.  We stopped at Anglesea (to compare it to the one we know in Wales), ...

... and then lasted about 45 minutes before I had to come inside. I felt like my skin was melting off! The day after I drove down to Torquay with Jacs and her friend Mel. We had a really great day. We had some breakie, brought a boogie board from and op shop ...

... adskilt fra fastlandet gennem årene. På turen holdte vi en pause i idylliske Apollo Bay, før vi endte i Victorias surf-hovedstad Torquay, hvor vi ville tilbringe natten i bilen. Tirsdag d. 18. januar Denne morgen vågnede vi på en knap så behagelig ...

... up we hit the road... The Great Ocean Road! Beautiful from the outset, we knew what we were in for. We first stopped in Torquay, the home of RipCurl and many surfing events as the swirl gets to 6 foot, apparently that's good?! I think I would find this a ...