Destination: Australia

Bites along the Bruce

Tue, 3 Jul 2007 | By jonnygo | Views [1856]

With a heady mixture of Tiger balm scent and "au de bumcrack" the skull emblazoned van was returned to the Cairns depot.  Despite the atrocious weather that every Aussie on the way said, " was well out of the ordinary mate " we ... Read more >

Tags: Food & eating

Sorry it's been so long

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 | By edinoz | Views [1065] | Comments [7]

Well, I didn't realise how long it had been since I last updated on here.  Not really been doing too much !!  Only mustered 15000 cattle at Clio & Wetherby.  Not too eventful really, but long hot days.  No dustthough, due to further showers. ... Read more >

Sticker Shock

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 | By sarahreinertsen | Views [733]

Exactly one year from departing Australia, I returned to Adelaide on an overnight flight from Singapore. It was a beautiful March day - as most March days in Adelaide are - and I was excited to bring my trip full circle, as it were. Despite my lack ... Read more >

Tags: australia, culture shock

Victoria- Grampians, Ancestors and Spas

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 | By johnsteel | Views [693]

April, 2016 This trip had 3 goals to have a meal at the highly rated Dunkeld Royal Hotel restaurant; visit old gold mining towns and Ballarat where Susan’s Steel family began; return to Daylesford and have a spa. 1. Dunkeld is a small village at ... Read more >

Tags: ballarat, daylesford, dunkeld, grampians

Bye Byron..... :o(

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 | By kim-n-frankie | Views [624]

So, we've been away for nearly a month now - the time seems to be flying, hence the lack of updates - everyone should be on Facebook any way - its Law! So far, since being in Byron - which, for both of us, felt more like a home away from home than ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Meet you in restaurant in pink cat?????...........

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 | By callwill | Views [583] | Comments [2]

  Finally after many cases of telephone and text message tag with the FOPS’s, (including the wonderful message above…….   “ meet you in restaurant in pink cat”   .   By way of explaination, Telstra provides this as a free service ... Read more >

Getting Ready

Wed, 20 May 2009 | By katelynburgers | Views [561]

This past week has flown by - it's my last week in Australia so I'm very excited! ANYWAY, mainly I've been working as many hours as I can for some extra money... I paid a speeding fine yesterday so that set me back about $400... ahh well life goes on.... Read more >

Tags: getting ready, packing, shopping

The day before the big trip

Sat, 27 Jul 2013 | By asteinthal | Views [306]

Hi everyone, I am busy packing and doing last minute things and feeling a tensy bit nervous about the journey ahead.  I have been trying to contact my irish relatives about where I am staying, I am sure I will have a bed somewhere!  The trip ... Read more >

Monsoon Season

Sun, 8 Feb 2015 | By meriadoc262 | Views [294]

Hi again everyone. The weeks seem to go by faster and faster. I can't believe I'm already over a third of the way through my time in Cairns. If it's going this fast here, I can only imagine how it will be when I travel the rest of Australia. In a blink ... Read more >

114 days until we fly out!

Mon, 30 Dec 2013 | By susiejo | Views [274]

Paul keeps reminding me how many days it is until we fly out.  The trip is still far away enough that I am not shitting myself just yet.

Beautiful Trophy

Sun, 23 Nov 2014 | By victorianikolova | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship

Photos: QLD Daintree and Port Douglas

Sun, 1 May 2016 | By dawnandmark | Photo Gallery

Gallery: whitsundays

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 | By ferefu | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Adelaide to Melbourne

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 | By arcticwarbler | Photo Gallery

Photos: Historic Holland Park Bowls Club - A Family Tradition

Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By jessicalea | Flickr Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Tags: travel photography scholarship 2013