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The Farewell Party

Mon, 5 Mar 2007 | By missy83 | Views [668]

Venue Taco Bills Albury - Planning on about 20 people, just having dinner and cocktails! planning on putting some pics up here later on 17/3 so not too long away. dates have been pushed back now leaving on 22/4 so farewell a little early but cant change ... Read more >

Tags: The Planning Phase

Jour 2 : visite d'un mini zoo

Sun, 4 Mar 2007 | By catlemay | Views [732]

Jour 2 Ce matin, il pleut. Notre plan etait d'aller voir les 12 apotres le long de la GOR. Malheureusement, nous sommes decues parce que la temperature de nous le permet pas. Alors nous decidons de manger et de partir vers les 12 apotres. En cours de ... Read more >

Tags: Friends

info sur le koalas-biologiste en herbe

Sun, 4 Mar 2007 | By catlemay | Views [1630]

Pour les biologistes en herbe et pour ceux qui aimeraient avoir plus d'info sur le koala voici ce que j'ai appris par des personnes du coin. Le koala se nourrit de feuilles d'eucalyptus (on les appele ici gum tree) ainsi que d'une autre variete de feuilles ... Read more >

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Great Ocean Road- Kenett River

Sun, 4 Mar 2007 | By catlemay | Views [919]

GREAT OCEAN ROAD (GRO) JOUR 1 Me voici partir pour visiter Great Ocean Road. C'est une route de 300 km a peu pres. Elle ressemble un peu a la route 132 vers la gaspesie toujours sur le bord de la mer ou presque. Nous avons notre camper et nous arretons ... Read more >

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Africa in Australia

Sun, 4 Mar 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1230]

Having spent a hot day strolling along the beach and body surfing in Cottlesole Beach, a small community between Perth and Freemantle, we were a bit daring and ventured out to a very cool dinner experience. African Mesob is a little restaurant ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Great Ocean Road

Sat, 3 Mar 2007 | By catlemay | Views [625]

26 fevrier Je pars de Melbourne, nous venons tout juste de louer un campervan avec 2 autres personnes pour 25 jours. Je suis avec Amelie, une quebecoise que j'ai rencontree a Sydney et Tamara, une Ontarienne, un peu bornee, ou nous avons rencontre a ... Read more >

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Surf Lifesaving Competition & Fine Belgian Beers

Sat, 3 Mar 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1144]

Surf Lifesaving Clubs form the foundation of the beach community here in Western Australia. We hit the beach in Scarborough today, and witnessed the Western Australian Surf Lifesaving Competition... thousands of kids from around the state were ... Read more >

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Fremantle

Fri, 2 Mar 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1055]

Those of you visiting Perth should make a point to visit Fremantle. It’s a hip, happening little town, lots of cafes, bars, and live music. We learned that Perth, especially Fremantle, has a great live music scene, because they are unable to have ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Philthy-nomad skives off

Fri, 2 Mar 2007 | By ambassador | Views [1969]

Phil the Philthy-nomad took our Ambassador Van to the Melbourne Adventure & Travel Expo for a few days of show and tell. Yep, Phil works for us and we gave him a well-deserved one-week break at the end to deliver it back to Sydney. From his first ... Read more >

Tags: adventures, ambassador van

The Grampians to Ballarat & the goldfields...

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 | By philthy-nomad | Views [2772] | Comments [1]

After a peaceful nights sleep we awoke Thursday morning to find a group of kangaroos had decided to join us for breakfast, one with a joey in pouch. After our breaky we were off again, this time to the beautiful MacKenzie Falls. Though not in full ... Read more >

Tags: ambassador van, mountains

Ditch the Van for a Prison Cell

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1201]

Ah, a huge sense of freedom washed over us today, as we finally ditched our campervan. It's been 20 straight days in our van, and we've had enough. While we love camping, and the freedom to stop wherever we want and cook our dinner, watch a sunset, ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Different Country, Same Problems

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1166]

People we meet along the way during our prior travels tend to comment on obesity and fast pace/fast food culture of Americans. They refer to their travels to the US , and seeing a large proportion of overweight people. Well folks, an article ... Read more >

Tags: People

Good Bye Great Ocean Road, Hello Grampians...

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 | By philthy-nomad | Views [1562]

One of the first stops of the morning was London Bridge. This was a double arched platform that linked to the mainland. It is a “was” because in 1990 one of the arches collapsed leave two people stranded on the now unattached rock formation. No one ... Read more >

Tags: ambassador van, mountains

Freeloading WiFi

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1099]

Finally, the big event we've been searching for here in Australia - the ability to freeload off someone's unprotected wireless setup. Sounds strange, I know... With Darrin the tech-a-holic, you'd think that this wouldn't be such a problem ... Read more >

Tags: Packing & gadgets