The day dawned slightly cloudy with a hint of rain in the air. We rose early to get some breakfast and slather ourselves head to foot in high factor sun cream. We were taking no chances with Australia’s harsh sun and our very Irish skin. Still absorbing the film of cream, we piled into the [...]
For our time at Airlie Beach we were actually staying out of town in the Bush Village Backpackers in Cannonvale. This is a somewhat quirky place. The hostel use their location as a selling point for customers. With a courtesy bus running in and out of town their advantage over the competition is that you [...]
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Back in the Aussie Woolshed we happily spent a full day doing well… nothing. We slept in, made ourselves some breakfast and then spent most of the day hiding out from the sun and trying to stay cool whether reading, listening to music or writing up our travels and offline emails. By late afternoon the [...]
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The group congregates once more for breakfast once it’s light outside. At some point during the cereal and coffee, Mrs Holland returns from an excursion around the barriers and reports success in locating some dingos. In typical tourist fashion, there’s a mass exodus to gather cameras and stampede over to the far fence where a [...]
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Our tour to Fraser Island starts bright and early in the morning. We cram enough items to get us through the couple of days into small bags, and leave our rucksacks and valuables in storage at the hostel. We’re the first pickup of the morning at 7am. Our host for the tour is Neil – [...]
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