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Sun, 27 Apr 2008 | By george | Views [5342] | Comments [5]

Arriving in Australia for the first time, things started well when the beach-babe immigration woman stamped my passport, smiled and said 'see you later' in an enthusiastic Australian voice. Getting from the airport to my city-centre hostel was cheap ... Read more >
Tags: grampians, great ocean road, melbourne, phillip island, wilsons prom
Thu, 5 Jul 2007 | By stock_market_nomad | Views [1742]
Bridge Climb When you're in the Navy, visiting foreign ports is a "working vacation." Just because you're not at sea doesn't mean that the job is done! The day we arrived we pulled into port late, so I really didn't go out at all. Besides, ... Read more >
Tags: Port Visit
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1165]
After a very productive
morning in Dongara bringing you an actually "working" website, we put
in a full 7 hours of driving south, with the goal to get past Perth, and away
from the confusing highway infrastructure that had us spinning our ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 | By yellowducks | Views [1094]
I love the tropics.
That hot stinking humidity that envelops every pore on your
body. That wafting scent of thickness that only South East Asia can produce
with muggy resolve.
It was an ordinary night, so ordinary that it was abnormal. That
strange ... Read more >
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 | By david_vanessa | Views [994]
Hi All, We returned to the hostel and decided to watch a video with a Dutch couple. I didn't know they were Dutch and asked about the accent. The yellow polar fleece clogs on his feet should have been a give a way. While waiting Vanessa and I were watching ... Read more >
Sat, 11 Sep 2010 | By callwill | Views [830]
Hi everyone, It was excellent today to log onto the blog and find comments from; Ella, Nick, Amelia, Leia, Beck, Myah, and Eva! Thanks so much for the messages. Like you guys I am sort of counting down ... Read more >
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 | By partners-in-crime | Views [718]

So, enjoyed a couple of weekends exploring now that Daire is back on firm ground!! Weekend before last we went down to Jervis Bay which is about 3 hours drive south of Sydney in a little place called Huskisson, here we camped 5 minutes from an amazing ... Read more >
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 | By pauline | Views [513]
I hired a car for the Australia Day long weekend and on Saturday headed off to the charming town of Denmark set amongst tall timbers and situated on the banks of the river with the same name. On the scenic route west towards Walpole via Scotsdale Road ... Read more >
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 | By supergg | Views [506]
This time next week we'll be exploring Chinatown in Bangkok! Oh yeah!!
Fri, 15 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [442]
Walked to Cho Tan An Market and bought a mango and some laundry detergent. Kevin went along the river and across to Cam Nam Island to look at where Dong has built his house. Kevin says the work on the second floor is progressing. After breakfast, I tried ... Read more >
Mon, 21 Dec 2009 | By partners-in-crime | Views [416]
As I mentioned in our last post that we had a few things coming up I’ll fill you in on those things first... My Nautical themed office party – as you can see from the pictures we were great pirates, was really fun and quite ... Read more >
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 | By travelisgoodforthesoul | Views [375]
It was after midnight when we finally stopped to pitch camp on the beach. I know this because the clock in the rent-a-car hadn't changed time zones like we had yet, so when I announced it was 11, three people with phones told me otherwise. We had been ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, moonrise, travel
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 | By | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry
Forty minutes west of Lithgow and fifteen minutes off the highway, a bathtub sits beside a gum on the highest point of the farm. Technically, it’s just one paddock. The hills and clumps of dense Stringybark gums make it hard to tell, but if you spend ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 | By BigTripBlog | Photo Gallery
Photos from a couple of nights of bushcamping on the road between Mt. Isa and Alice Springs
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