 | Good Ol' Bob Turner
2007-11-04, Colo, Australia. By: regnmanda | | Well we got brave enough and went on our first bushwalk in Oz. We drove to a trail called Bob Turner's Trail with Bryan and Ella. It was a 3km walk down the blue mountains down to the colo river. T... |
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 | Starting to get hot!
2007-11-14, Sydney, Australia. By: joyonice | | Well its November and its starting to get very hot here!After last weeks rain it makes a nice change. I can see many many beach days to come! I have found a job waitressing in a lovely restraunt so th... |
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 | Jans Birthday
2007-11-05, Cairns, Australia. By: hamsouth | | Well Jans finally reached 26 and we celerbriated in style by flying over the Great Barrier Reef on a scenic tour, what a fantastic way to see the reef this was. We as divers really enjoyed diving it b... |
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 | Guess who's back...
2007-11-10, Melbourne, Australia. By: mikegagnon | | Real quick one today to let everyone know what's been happening. My 9 hours bus ride to Melbourne was as to be expected from a bus ride. Long, boring, tedious, and impossible to sleep. However, whe... |
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 | My Last West Wollongong Rotary Meeting
2007-11-07, Wollongong, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | Tonight I attended my last Rotary meeting at my host club of West Wollongong. Thank you to the entire club for making my experience in Australia unforgettable. Particularly I would like to thank Bruc... |
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 | Melbourne Cup
2007-11-06, Wollongong, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | The Melbourne Cup horse race is a big deal in Australia especially this year with a horse equine influenza affecting and quarantining many Aussie horses. Melbourne Cup Day is fixed for the first Tuesd... |
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 | Sydney Paper Craft Show
2007-11-04, Sydney, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | This weekend I helped Bruce and Gail set up their stamp booth at the Sydney Paper Craft Show. It was a great way to get my craft fix for month. It’s a good thing I started packing my bags and realize... |
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 | Aussie Halloween
2007-10-31, Wollongong, Australia. By: jamie_fumo | | I was surprised to find out that Australians do not celebrate Halloween – guess I just thought Trick or Treating was a universal thing. Who doesn’t love to wear a costume to get free candy?
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 | Continuing On!
2007-07-24, Ayr, Australia. By: griso | | 27 October
What’s been happening since David’s first posting? We spent a wonderfully relaxing 5 nights at Adel’s Grove on the edge of the Lawn Hill National Park:
* visiting frequently the gentle c... |
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| So Long Sydney...
2007-11-07, Canberra, Australia. By: mikegagnon | | Sydney had been bid adieu and the last week there on my own really wasn't all that eventful. I made some friends with some really fun irish guys and they were complete animals. I walked into my room... |
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 | NEW CAR!!!!
2007-10-30, Windsor, Australia. By: regnmanda | | After a couple days of visiting every used car dealership in the area with Brian (Manda's cousin) and meeting some colourful sales people we finally found our baby. Along the way we saw quite a few s... |
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 | Scenic flight
2007-11-03, Hervey bay, Australia. By: franandtom | | I forgot to mention that on Fraser island, Tom and i were supposed to go up in a sea plane. But we missed it because the buses battery went! :/ luckily the pilot told us of a place in Hervey bay where... |
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| Our guided (luxury!) tour of Fraser island
2007-10-29, Hervey bay, Australia. By: franandtom | | On the day after we arrived in Hervey bay, we were off to Fraser island on a 2 day guided tour. Most backpackers do a 4WD self drive camping tour, as its the cheapest. This is where you're put with a ... |
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| Cowboys/girls for a day!
2007-10-28, Kroombit, Australia. By: franandtom | | So we left Airlie beach at the crack of dawn and began the 10 hour journey to Kroombit. We eventually arrived at 5 in the evening, and realised we were completely in the middle of nowhere! the cattle ... |
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| Finding a job..
2007-11-02, Sydney, Australia. By: joyonice | | Well this week has been job hunting week. Have applied at quite a few places so fingers crossed! The rink I'm skating at is amazing, its in the centre of the biggest shopping centre in Sydney so there... |
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 | Diving the Great Barrier Reef
2007-10-27, The great barrier reef, Australia. By: hamsouth | | After waiting the whole time we have been in Oz we finally got to dive on the Great Barrier Reef., on a recommendation from our friends we met in Borneo Kristen and Paul (Excellent). We went on a live... |
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| Photos of week one and two!
2007-10-23, Sydney, Australia. By: joyonice | | All of my photos of week 1 and 2 are up on face book, if you click on the link below it will take you there and you can look at all of the album without being a member of facebook. I made it public :D... |
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| The after party
2007-10-23, Airlie beach, Australia. By: franandtom | | So we were off the boat, and everyone was still swaying! We all met in our hostel for dinner and then a night on the town. Two of the crew members eventually turned up-absolutely battered which was qu... |
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| Harbour City
2007-10-29, Sydney, Australia. By: mikegagnon | | Being in Sydney is almost surreal in a way. The past few days have been spent with my dad of all people walking around Sydney and getting lost all over town. Sydney is a huge city with people always... |
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| Sailing!
2007-10-23, Airlie beach, Australia. By: franandtom | | So we arrived in Airlie beach on the oz bus and checked in at beaches hostel. then we had food and went to bed! the next day we wandered around Airlie beach-lots of cool shops and bars! We went to the... |
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| The rest of our time on magnetic island
2007-10-22, Mission Beach, Australia. By: franandtom | | so we dont mention the photo again please! anyway... for Toms birthday we decided to rent some kind of transport to get round the island on. We werent allowed a car obviously. Not allowed a scooter. N... |
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 | The cars gone back to walking again
2007-10-25, Cairns, Australia. By: hamsouth | | Well, we have finally made it to cairns and are now on the last part of our trip in Oz.We had only been here 3 days when we managed to sell the car for a little more than we expected, which was a bloo... |
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| Thursday 25th
2007-10-23, Sydney, Australia. By: joyonice | | Chinatown was our destination today, we went to Paddys market which has 1,000 stalls! Everything was in Chinese and Japanese, including road signs, product info etc.. we had no idea what we were looki... |
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| The trip so far
2007-07-24, Katherine, Australia. By: griso | | 25/09/2007
We were up at 5:30 to prepare to leave for our around Australia trip. Gail and Bill arrived to begin their baby sitting duties with our 2 dogs (Jack and Sparkey), 10 fish (8 comets, 1 tige... |
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| My first week in Australia!
2007-10-23, Sydney, Australia. By: JoyOnIce | | Hi to everyone! Miss you already :) Although I've had plenty to keep me busy!
Arrived at Sydney airport on the 18th, flights were sooo long but went so smoothly I couldnt believe it. Only when I go... |
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