 | Top Five
2009-10-19, Melbourne, Australia. By: travelalex | | I know it's taken it's time coming - but crafting a list like this needs time to develop. So without further ado I present to you the coveted Top Five list of The Children of the Sun
[b]Top Six Ti... |
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 | PERTH-CRISSCROSSING AUSTRALIA
2009-08-07, Perth, Australia. By: no2ndhome | |
(Excerpted from my book, OUR SUMMER IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, AMAZON.COM)
We finally made it to Perth! Crossed Australia from Sydney in a week. Now to upgrade and revel in the delights of thi... |
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 | Cairns
2009-02-28, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. By: brettdille | | The longer I wait to write, I less I remember. I did write everything down the day it happened to avoid this type of situation. However, it is very difficult to care about the itinerary when the only ... |
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 | Coffs Harbour to Penrith
2009-08-06, Penrith, Australia. By: jeannine | | In Coffs Hrbour we treated ourselves to a holiday cabin, which the kids were SOOOOO excited about! Nice and warm, and no tent for a night!
The next day we only had a short drive down to South West... |
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| Hervey Bay to Coffs Harbour
2009-08-03, Coffs Harbour, Australia. By: jeannine | | Hi again! We are up to Fraser Island now.
Saturday 18th July we caught the barge from Hervey Bay to Fraser Island. We arrived on the island and found our campground...wasn't too far on the map, b... |
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 | Laura to Hervey Bay
2009-07-18, Hervey Bay, Australia. By: jeannine | |
Continuing down south, we stayed in most of the "towns" as we did on our way up to the tip, but with names like "Hann River Roadhouse" and "Archer River Roadhouse", you can imagine the size of these... |
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 | Cairns to Cape York
2009-07-01, Cape York Peninsula, Australia. By: jeannine | | So many days/weeks have passed since I last updated...haven’t had a great time with internet connection! Also seem to be having some trouble uploading new photos, so I apologise if you don’t get the ... |
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| Our days in Cairns
2009-06-23, Cairns, Australia. By: jeannine | | Hello there. I'm sitting here in balmy Cairns watching the sugar cane train roll by. Have just been to an open air movie with the kids to see "Space Chimps" which was a big hit!
To back track...o... |
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 | CRISSCROSSING AUSTRALIA: POINT LEEUWIN
2009-06-17, point leeuwin, Australia. By: no2ndhome | | Excerpted from my book: Our Summer in Australia and New Zealnad...Amazon.com
We are about as far away from Sydney as one can get, during our crisscrossing of Australia. About 2,500 miles away. As f... |
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| Atherton
2009-06-17, Atherton, Australia. By: jeannine | | Hi again!
Since last I wrote we have seen a lot and done even more! I'll try to be brief and will add more photos this time, but still need to keep you up to date with the goings on too!
Day 11... |
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 | And the countdown begins...
2009-06-08, Adelaide, Australia. By: lmcintyre | | Well it is now only 5 days until we depart for our first trip to Europe and to say we are excited is a little bit of an under exaggeration!
We have spent the day cleaning, packing, cleaning and gru... |
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 | Greetings from afar
2009-06-07, Mt Isa, QLD, Australia. By: jeannine | | Well...it seems like so long ago that we packed up and left Adelaide on our adventure, but it's only been 10 days! This is the first opportunity we have had to access this online journal, so will try... |
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 | 200kg of mid life crisis
2009-06-03, Sydney, Australia. By: pedrofletc | | A couple of weekends ago, I flew to Brisbane, bought a motorbike and rode it back. I didn't take a camera worse luck, so I don't have any pictures of the the visit with my brother Stephen and his fami... |
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 | Red Centre Safari
2009-05-30, Alice Springs, Australia. By: edculpin | | After flying from Cairns to Alice Springs and spending a couple of days exploring the town i set off on a 4 day safari down to Ayer's Rock (Uluru as the Aboriginals call it) and the surrounding area.
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 | Beyond the Border
2009-05-25, Sunshine Coast at Home, Australia. By: intrepidmj | | [b]Beyond the Border[/b]
[url]http://beyondtheborderlines.blogspot.com/[/url]
The link to my Blogspot Blog, Beyond the Border |
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| Flickr
2009-05-25, Sunshine Coast at Home, Australia. By: intrepidmj | | Just joined Flickr and am starting to put some photography up
[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/intrepidmj/[/url]
Enjoy |
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| Jack Kerouac's 'essentials'
2009-05-25, Sunshine Coast at Home, Australia. By: intrepidmj | | [i]I like this, I love reading through it - gets me thinking...[i]
[b]'essentials'[b]
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
Submissive to everything, open, ... |
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 | Storms and Wild Seas
2009-05-25, Sunshine Coast, Australia. By: intrepidmj | | Just over a week ago I surfed my local break, Maroochydore, in crisp blue water fanned with a light westerly offshore, not a cloud to be seen and with only a hand full of other surfers. Two days in a ... |
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 | Sydney
2009-05-09, Sydney, Australia. By: edculpin | | I spent 4 days in Sydney, visiting the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, The Town Hall, Darling Harbour, the Botanical Gardens, Taronga Zoo. I took a ferry around the harbour and a monorail around the ... |
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 | Diving on the Great Barrier Reef
2009-05-22, Cairns, Australia. By: edculpin | | To end my epic journey up the east coast of Australia i went on a day cruise from Cairns out to the Great Barrier Reef.
-approximately 344,400 square kilometres
-can be seen from outer space
-is ... |
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 | Whitsunday Island Cruise
2009-05-18, Whitsunday Group, Australia. By: edculpin | | Before heading up to Cairns i stopped for 5 days in Airlie Beach to go on a cruise around the Whitsunday Islands. The weather had been quite bad for the past week but for us it was great - really hot ... |
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 | Fraser Island Safari
2009-05-14, Fraser Island, Australia. By: edculpin | | Next stop after the surf camp was a 3 day safari on Fraser Island.
About half way up the east coast, Fraser Island is just off Hervey Bay and is totally made of sand. There is little or no soil any... |
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 | Mojo Surf Camp
2009-05-10, Woolgoolga, Australia. By: edculpin | | I began my journey up the east coast from Sydney to Cairns with 2 days at Spot X Surf Camp just south of Byron Bay.
I spent a couple of days surfing almost continuously, and getting lessons from an... |
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 | Sunny Side Up
2009-02-25, Bondi, Australia. By: brettdille | | The sun was back and there was rejoice in all the land. Well, at least we’re rejoicing. We decided since this was our last week here, we would do all the things we had not gotten around to yet. We sta... |
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 | Rain Rain Go Away, Come Back Another Day
2009-02-15, Bondi, Australia. By: brettdille | | I had been told growing up rain was a sign of good things to come. I do love summer rain, sun showers, thunder storms, and the smell of rain. However, when planning a hike or a trip to Australia’s big... |
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 | Memories of a tropical city
2009-03-14, Brisbane, Australia. By: gemandyoz | | OOPS. It's May and I'm only now getting round to writing a journal entry about our Brisbane trip. Sorry. I should explain.
You see, we left Australia hoping to do a little travel writing to keep us... |
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 | Indian Pacific Railway
2009-05-05, Adelaide, Australia. By: edculpin | | Today I took the Indian Pacific Railway from Adelaide across the whole of South Australia to Sydney. The train starts off in Perth but i joined it on Tuesday morning in Adelaide and arrived in Sydney ... |
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 | Day trip to Kangaroo Island
2009-05-03, Kangaroo Island, Australia. By: edculpin | | After safely arriving in Australia and meeting up with the Rafterys, I went on a one-day trip to nearby Kangaroo Island. It has a land-bridge which sometimes connects it to the mainland depending on s... |
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| Last few days in Oz
2009-04-30, Cairns, Australia. By: Sassy | | I thought when we got to Cairns the early mornings would be over, but no, our bus came to collect us at 7.15am to take us on our trip to the Daintree Tropical Rainforest. We had a walk though Cape Tri... |
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| 38 sleeps to go!
2009-04-22, Adelaide, Australia. By: jeannine | | Still in preparation mode, but now in the countdown phase!
I have added your email address to our subscription, really just to see how it all works. If you are happy to stay on the list you will... |
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