Wollongong Travel Blogs

On arrival into Sydney, I hired a car and took myself off for a lovely drive from Sydney to Goulburn via the coast road through the Royal National Park, south to Wollongong, then up the Macquarie Pass to Robertson in the Southern Highlands and on to Goulburn. I have wanted to do this drive for a…

Tuesday We left Bateman's Bay at about 10am, got a lift to the bus stop which was awesome as it was pouring rain. The ride to Wollongong was 4 hours long. I ended up sitting next to an Aussie guy my age and we watched Eurotrip on my Ipod. He offered for us to stay at his place in Sydney, which I m…

Today I paid a visit to the Nan Tien Buddhist Temple Complex which is a short train hop out of Wollongong. You can read up more information about the temple and what goes on there - i.e. Monks doing ninjitsu training and old ladies smashing concrete blocks with their bare hands! (Disclaimer: The pr…

I'm not actually a religious man but I've thought for a long time now that should I have to choose one to associate myself with then the religion that seems most to align itself with my beliefs is Buddhism.  I like the idea that we must do the best we can in this life in order to make progress…

our trip to Australia from August 30 till October 15...

Italy, France, Switzerland and Australia!

Fog shrouded every valley and turn in the morning. We were headed for the city of Wollongong. As far as I know, the third largest city in New South Wales. Wollongong sits on the coast a few hours south of Sydney, and has it's own university. It is a steep descent down to the coast, and big t…

C'est ici que commence notre grande boucle...  Le Royal National Park est le plus ancien parc national d'australie... L'Australie, une fois sorti de Sydney nous montre des paysages grandioses!!Jugez par vous même avec les photos...Le voyage en van nous permet une grande liberté! et puis c'es…

My friends and I took a drive to Wollongong, which we heard and read a lot about.  You can drive along the coast for a scenic drive, but to me even the "usual" way of getting there was scenic enough.  Views were of mountains and lush green lands though, instead of the water, but still ver…

So recap the night before: Pack my backpacks for camping? Check. Walk into a glass wall and inflate lips? Check. Ice previously mentioned swollen lip? Check.  Detox? Mmm...not quite.  After barely having slept, I woke up (or more accurately, was awoken) at 7:30 to go c…

Pilgrimage to Sydney...

Amazing Australia Trip Day 12 19/4  3rd Attempt of Skydiving at Wollongong, Sydney Royal Easter Show Since we had a appointment with the skydiving company at Wollongong at 8am this morning and we needed to take 2 hours bus to there.  We needed to get up at 5am something today!!!&n…

Went all over Aussie. I surfed, bodyboarded, saw some crazy animals, and met some nice people.

today they shipped the whole camp off site and to the beach in wollongong. was very nice, but the waves were so big that we all had to swim between some flags, so it was really crowded. and i got sunburned between my breasts, guess i had a different bikini on when i put on subnscreen. but it's the …

Thursday, 28th June, 2007This was going to be a journal about the Curry’s trip to the North of Australia - Darwin, Kakadu, Lichfield National Park, the dinosaur footprints at Lark’s Quarry, the Undarra Lava Tubes in North Queensland.  Instead we are despondently sitting in the Mitchell Car…