Tagged with: Travel

  • Day 18

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    location:Sydney
    summary:Met Deirdre & Geoff, my relatives, visited Palm Beach (set of Home and Away) and the Sydney IMAX
    trip:australia00
    day:18

  • Day 17

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    location:Nundle – Sydney
    summary:Nothing much
    day:17

  • Day 16

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    location:Bellingen → Nundle
    summary:Sheep farm. Evening entertainment and sheep sheering demo.
    ihave:Sheered a sheep
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    day:16

  • Day 15

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    location:Nimbin – Bellingen
    summary:Cinema in converted butter factory
    day:15

  • Day 14

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    location:Brisbane – Nimbin
    summary:Tour of Nimbin, permiculture centre, solar power plant
    day:14

  • Day 13

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    location:Noosa – Brisbane
    summary:Met Cat & Luke, David’s friends, Theatre Sports
    trip:australia00
    day:13

  • Day 12

    Leaving Bargara, we continued to journey south. We were now entering ‘big stuff’ country. I give the area this name quite simply because the residents seem to like building enormous copies of fruits and vegetables for no apparent reason. This habit would continue for several hundred miles, but today we saw the first such construction, at the aptly named Big Pineapple Service Station. I’ll leave it to your imagination to work out the details of this one.

  • Day 11

    I didn’t sleep. Dingo may still officially be in the tropics, but the ventilation in the dorms was a bit too good for my liking and no duvets were provided. Not having brought a sleeping bag, I froze in my bunk.

  • Day 10

    Otherwise known as “the day Phil got arrested”. Leaving Airlie Beach behind, we continued our journey south, next stop Dingo. Dingo was to be our first real taste of the outback – a cattle ranch considerably inland from the coast road we had been using up to now. The plan (as conceived by OzExperience) was to arrive by about 4 or 5 pm, and have a tour before the evening entertainments began.

  • Day 9

    Otherwise known as the day Phil couldn’t count. Lots of stops today, one significant one where the bus would pick up or drop off passengers: Townsville. On arrival, we got off to have our one-hour break in the town, and arriving back found the bus was a scene of chaos. There were about 50 seats on the bus, and about 70 people wanting to take them. Musical chairs was out of the question, and Phil was trying to decide what to do. He decided to board people one at a time after checking their reservation slips. The problem with this was that almost everyone had a valid reservation slip. After weeding out the three or four that didn’t, Phil re-boarded the bus triumphantly to find that about fifteen people were standing in the aisle.