 | Alice Springs to Banka Banka
2007-06-12, Alice Springs, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | Up at 5:30am heading towards Banka Banka, an old cattle herding station. Along the way we past the Tropic of Capricorn, so we are officially in the tropics now – cheers to warm weather ahead and leav... |
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 | Alice Springs - Queens Birthday
2007-06-11, Alice Springs, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | Happy Birthday to the Queen – making it a public holiday. I went shopping in the morning with Joan, Janice, and Stef – another good bye meeting and then I went back to the hostel to take a nap and cat... |
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 | Alice Springs
2007-06-10, Alice Springs, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | With a free day in Alice Springs I was able to sleep in – yeah! I am still feeling sick but starting to feel better after a warm shower and a warm bed. This morning I met up with Bob and Beth Mildred... |
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 | Kings Canyon and Alice Springs
2007-06-09, Alice Springs, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | Up again at 5:30am to head to Kings Canyon to explore the canyon for a couple of hours before loading back on the bus for the long drive to Alice Springs. At the canyon we were able to see the stunnin... |
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 | Uluru to Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon
2007-06-08, Kings Canyon, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | Another early morning as we were up at 5:30am for the sunrise at Uluru with temperatures in the low 30’s. After sunrise we took a guided interpretive walk around part of the base of the Rock and visi... |
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 | Coober Pedy to Uluru
2007-06-07, Uluru, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | I thought up at 4:30am was craziness but today we were up at 4am to head to Uluru (aka Ayers Rock or the Rock). Before arriving at Uluru we drove through the rugged desert country of middle Australia... |
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 | Rawnsley Park to Coober Pedy
2007-06-06, Coober Pedy, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | We were up at 4:30am to drive over 700 kilometers through nothingness in the outback to the opal mining town of Coober Pedy, which means white man in the ground in the Aboriginal language. Coober Ped... |
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 | Flinder Ranges and Wilpena Pound
2007-06-05, Wilpena Pound, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | June 5, 2007
Flinder Ranges and Wilpena Pound
In the morning we drove through the Parachilna Gorge on our way to the Wilpena Pound to climb Mt. Ohlssen-Bagge. The four hour long hike was very ... |
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 | Adelaide to Parachilna
2007-06-04, Parachilna, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | Today started another section of our tour from Adelaide to Alice Springs with our new tour guide Bryan who looked like the typical Aussie outback kind of guy. Leaving the city behind we traveled thro... |
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 | Adelaide
2007-06-03, Adelaide, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | Today was free day to explore Adelaide and I was able to sleep in to 9am, which was late for this trip. I went around the city with Joan, Emily, Stef, Janice, and Sanna. We went to the Tandanya Abori... |
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 | Halls Gap to Adelaide
2007-06-02, Adelaide, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | We woke up freezing in our cabins to the mountains being covered with fog however it quickly lifted and clear skies appeared. We headed out to the Mackenzie Falls in the Grampians mountains for an ea... |
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 | Princetown to Grampians National Park
2007-06-01, Princetown, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | We woke up at 7am to sunshine and blue skies quite different from yesterday’s weather. We headed to Loch Ard Gorge home of the famous Loch Ard shipwreck on May 31, 1878 in which only 2 of 54 passenge... |
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| The Gong to Melbourne
2007-05-30, Wollongong, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | Kelly took me to the Wollongong airport for the start of my Australian travels. My flight to Melbourne was good and I caught the airport shuttle into the city. I stayed the night in Hotel Bakpak and ... |
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 | Melbourne
2007-07-14, melbourne, Australia. By: chriskit | | Kay there,
So today was Melbourne...got her yesturday, went to a great pub for dinner, had dory and some of Gregs wallabie (see 15th date for who greg is) but then we went out clubbing/pubbing wit... |
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| Great Ocean Road
2007-07-15, Geelong, Australia. By: chriskit | | Hey all, soooo busy, and internet has been an arm and a leg..ugh.
All the people on my tour are awesome, theres Belgians, Germans, Swiss, English, a Scot, and one other Canadian...Gregs the dude, bee... |
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 | Camping!
2007-05-01, Manly, Australia. By: Sherrifer | | So quick update here, as the internet here is proper expensive like!
Have got a job working with Red Cross but hate it will probably quit cos its crap! I was just approached in the street by a guy ... |
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 | Stop and go
2007-07-15, Sydney, Australia. By: gemandyoz | | By ANDY
AUSTRALIA is such a big country that while the tropics bask in sunshine during winter, the southern half of the country is more than a little chilly.
There is even a ski season if you go... |
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 | Goodbye to cold Melbourne
2007-07-12, Melbourne, Australia. By: kezza82 | | Only a few days now until I leave for a 5 months adventure in UK/Europe! I'm sure I will miss everyone heaps, so be sure to stay in touch. Don't think I'll miss the cold weather.... |
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| Landed in Australia!!!
2007-07-09, Sydney, Australia. By: chriskit | | Ok so I've also landed but also van't quite finish this part yet, so give me a bit. (stort details are as follows- landed, bused, mazed (thats the place I'm staying), walked around, had dinner with Au... |
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 | Hey all
2007-07-10, Sydney, Australia. By: nick5466 | | Well its been a while since i have updated everyone but i honestly havent been doing a lot apart from all the usual stuff that i have already covered. Rest assured though the next couple of months are... |
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 | Surfers paradise and Australia zoo
2007-07-01, Surfers paradise, Australia. By: hamsouth | | We arrived in Surfers paradise with the intention of staying maybe only 1 day or so because we were heading further up north to bunderburg to look for fruit picking work.This didn't happen though beca... |
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| Well....
2007-05-01, Kings Cross, Australia. By: Sherrifer | | Sorry I havent updated in so long everyone, I've been letting little plods of people know what I'm doing not that its been anything exciting! I got a flight from Sydney on 19th June to Brisbane, which... |
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 | Jaws attacks!!!
2007-07-05, Byron Bay, Australia. By: gtontour | | Hello to you all, hope all is well with whatever you are doing at home.
Tessa and I have had a busy few weeks (since our last journal update). We arrived in 1770 to be greeted by grey skies and ra... |
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 | This Week
2007-06-16, Sydney, Australia. By: nick5466 | | Monday - Work, Dinner, Bed
Tuesday - Work, Dinner, Bed
Wednesday - Work, Dinner, Bed
Thursday - Work, Dinner, Bed
Friday - Work, Dinner, Get Smashed, Bed
Saturday - Work, Dinner, Get Smashed, Bed... |
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