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Day 1 Tess and I are on our own and it is sad we are not travelling with Cognac and Golden Legend, but the adventurers are off to Point Blaze 57miles from Darwin. I often wonder where the names come from for these places, in the old days when everyone was brown nosing to the royals back in the...

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Nightmoves on August 1, 2010 from Darwin, Australia

from the travel blog: Robbie and Tess around Australia

Vintner's Secret Vineyard - WWOOF heaven?

We were a little worried on our journey from Agnes Waters to Childers, to meet our new WWOOF hosts from Vintner's Secret Vineyard. Could anywhere be worse than our Townsville host’s? (Well, yes, of course...). Our nerves weren’t helped by a thirty-minute ‘meal break’ stop at Apple Tree Creek...

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LizIsHere on July 27, 2010 from Childers, Australia

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

A long time on a bus...and a lovely stop at the end of it.

The night of the 24th of July 2010 will be forever be lost to us, spent as it was on a greyhound bus making it's slow, slow way down the coast between Townsville and Agnes Waters. I really don't recommend making 14 hours on a bus part of any Australian trip you may, but if it has to be done...

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LizIsHere on July 25, 2010 from Seventeen Seventy, Australia

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

radio silence

Hey! Sorry about the lack of blog updates! It's been a slightly stressful week or so trying to find new wwoof hosts and making our escape from a less-than-satisfactory one. We've just spent a relaxing few days on magnetic island, and are soon to begin an epic 14 hour bus journey south to...

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LizIsHere on July 23, 2010 from Magnetic Island, Australia

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

Magnetic Island - freedom, sunshine, sand and koalas!!!

So after our escape from Townsville, we caught a ferry twenty minutes across the water to Magnetic Island, a 'tropical paradise', with - and here's the key bit - wild koalas!! Our original plan had been to chill out for a few days and then to go to a wwoof host on the island, but that all...

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LizIsHere on July 23, 2010 from Magnetic Island, Australia

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

Thailand & VietNam 2010

Off to Asia with Air Asia

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huckleberryhound on July 19, 2010 from Gold Coast, Australia

from the travel blog: Thailand & VietNam 2010

A not-so-great wwoof experience

From Mission Beach we moved on, excited to meet our next wwoof host in Townsville. The book entry for the host (who is going to remain nameless because... well, read on) described a country acreage set up for horses, goats, with work including weeding and whatever needed doing. It sounded...

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LizIsHere on July 15, 2010 from Townsville, Australia

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

Long Way Back Home

So I am now as far away from home as I'm going to get! It's very cold here, and there's been quite a lot of drizzly rain, but when the sun has been shining it's quite pleasant! I'm staying in the biggest YHA in Australia, and it's brilliant! There's a pool, a sauna, 2 fully eqipped, enormous...

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JillR on July 7, 2010 from Sydney, Australia

from the travel blog: And now for something different...

Diving the Great Barrier Reef!

In another déjà-vu move, we returned to Mission Beach after our time in Cairns. The main motivation behind the trip was a trip to Dunk island for both of us – which unfortunately got rained off, and a diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef for me. It actually worked out quite well, meaning that...

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LizIsHere on July 4, 2010 from Mission Beach, Australia

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

Back to Cairns, and The Daintree

Our time in Cairns was a little reminiscent of our last time there, mostly because Nik had again got some unpleasant infection due to a bug bite, this time on his arm. So we spent a fair few hours at the 24 hour medical centre dealing with that. I'll spare you the details. But the main...

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LizIsHere on July 3, 2010 from Cape Tribulation, Australia

from the travel blog: New Zealand & Australia 2010

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