Time really does fly when your having fun! Tommorrow I fly to New Zealand ending my 6 week Australia tour – that time really has flown by! But I’ve done a lot in that time, I’ve visited every one of the six states and most of the major cities. Australia is a massive country with [...]
I’ve reached Cairns, which ends my 4000km journey from Sydney! Although I’ve done it in just under 3 weeks so it doesn’t feel that far, but when you look on the map its about the same as driving from London to Moscow!!! I fly back to Brisbane tomorrow – in 3 hours, much easier!
The majority [...]
Today I travelled 4 hours north to Townsville from where I took a short ferry ride to Magnetic Island. A very laid back place, theres not much going on here and theres only a couple of hostels. The hostel I’m in is probably the best I’ve stayed in – right on the beach with a [...]
I got back from a 3 day sailing trip round the Whitsunday Islands today. It was really cool, the weather was really nice – although this was not favourable for sailing as there wasn’t much wind and the sea was like a millpond! I sailed on a yacht called ‘Hammer’, which used to be a [...]
I arrived in Airlie Beach today, and this is the first chance I’ve had time to update the blog – I’ve had an excellent and busy few days doing loads of stuff. Sit back, get a brew, this might be a long one!
I left Brisbane early on Saturday morning to continue my journey north up [...]
Paid a visit to Australia Zoo today, founded by ‘the crocodile hunter’ – Steve Irwin! Was really good – although a little sad due to the recent passing of Steve. The zoo is home to lots of native Aussie wildlife and really pushes the welfare of wildlife. Most animals (cept the dangerous ones!) you could [...]
Pretty uneventful day today, chilled out in Byron this morning until I caught the bus to Brisbane at 2pm. Its peak holiday season here so the bus was packed, its a backpacker ‘hop on, hop off’ bus that I’m taking all the way up the East Coast to Cairns. The benefit is you get a [...]
Happy New Year all! Hope you all had a good one – let me know what you got up to. Mine was good, I met up with Phil and Shelley in Sydney and we watched the harbour firework show from the botanical gardens. Because its a popular event we had to queue for 2 hours [...]
I’ve been a bit lazy since I got to Sydney and have been sleeping in most mornings, so had to force myself to get up at 7am this morning to catch the train for 2 hours to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. Named due to the large amount of eucalyptus trees emiting oil into the [...]
Had to do it, they have a real submarine (British made) moored in Darling Harbour so I had to go and get my war fix and have a look inside it! Also got to look around a destroyer too – double war fix! Both are WW2 era and having seen inside I’m glad I wasn’t [...]