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4 week trip to Australia 15 dec tm 11 jan 08.

We, my travelmate Wilma and I, made plans together to see a lot of Australia. The country is so big that we decided to see only a few parts of it. We started in Hong Kong (stop-over), Saw Darwin, Uluru, Cape york to Cairns, Great barrier reef and drove along the coast to Brisbane.

After a week off work to finalise our bathroom renovation we escaped for a week to Hervey Bay in Queesland for some rest and relazation. Hervey Bay is very well know for it's whale watching tours from the months of May through to September so when we visited the place was very quiet, just the way we wanted it. After the renovations we deserved some time out and certainly made use of this. We stayed in a two bedroom apartment right near the beach and treated ourselves. Trish was 6 months pregn...

We arrived into Hervey Bay on the greyhound, which was not too painful a journey and we managed to spot some wild kangaroos! Hervey bay was our stopping off point for Fraser Island the largest sand island in the world. The beaches hostel which came with our packages was not good, but we weren't there very long. It was a 6.30 am assembly to get put into groups, get provisions and get packed into our 4by4 vehicles. We were in a group of 11 with 3 irish, and eight english including us, not exac...

We continued southwards to Hervey Bay where we were to take part in a 3 day self drive 4X4 safari on Fraser island, the worlds biggest sand-dune! of the group of 9 people, only 2 of us could drive so both had plenty of time behind the wheel bumping up and down the sandy tracks connecting the islands' villages and beaches. The whole island is made up entirely of sand so the only way to get around is by four wheel drive. We spent 3 days exploring the various parts of the island which included t...

Certainly a state befitting a Queen. This place has everything! A must see destination for everyone on the planet....

Fairly short drive distanc(e wise) from Cooroy to Hervey Bay, but nice trip.  Drove through Gympie and around to Tin Can Bay, which is famous for the dolphins that come into the cove each morning.  They come into the cafe and are very quiet.  We were too late to see any, they come in quite early most mornings.  Then drove on to Maryborough, which is a lovely old river town.  The walk along the river is beautiful, all very cared for and well-presented, and the old buil...

My year in Australia. The experiences of yet another Paddy living and working Down Under.

Howdy doody! You will never guess who i saw at Australia Zoo........... no not Steve Irwin (you sick bastards!) but i did get to watch Bindi dancing around on stage with the "Crocmen" (four clearly gay guys whos dancing and entertainment careers had hit an all time low) and also i saw Terri Irwin (Steves wife) and Wes Manion (Steves right hand man in the tv programs) do the croc show in the 5000 seater Crocosium. It was awesome! Basically Simon and I drove the van back down the coast from Noo...

1 year in Australia, with a backpack, and a working holiday visa !

I left Noosa at around 9.35am, back on the trusty old Greyhound. The usual standard 4 hour trip, and I was in Hervey Bay. There isn't a great deal to see here; apart from the strip of hostels and bars on the seafront, and the retail park around the coach station, this is another nothing town. However, what it is is the closest drop off point to Fraser Island. At Byron Bay I had booked with Wicked Travel into Beaches Backpackers, a small company which thankfully also owned a camp site called B...

Hervey Bay is the stop off to get on to Fraser island so hopped off here for the night. Had to go through a long safety talk about all the dos and donts quite amusing australian DVDs etc. Also had loads of money taken from us for insurance and national park tax and all sorts of things. Quite boring and also had the fear of death put in to us about ruining the 4x4 and having to pay millions for it. Hervey Bay is a small little town, not a lot going on. Had a feel of an american town withs its...

Road Trip across Queensland and New South Wales

We got an early bus out of Noosa to head for the Fraser Escape Backpackers in Hervey Bay, where we were going on a budget 3 day 4x4 tour of Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island, complete with local dingo population. We thought we'd left plenty of time to check out and walk down to the bus, but it was Census Day! We had to fill out the census form which took about 20 minutes, and would have made us miss the bus and been left waiting for 4 hours had the resort not realised a few...

what a trip...