Hello!! We arrived in NZ yesterday, in Aukland at the mo and it seems to be a really great city! We are at a great central backpackers and having fun exploring the city! We have a 'magic' bus pass, which will pretty much take us all over the north and south island, plus right up north to the bay of islands, which we are beginning on saturday. we leave NZ on 15 aug, so the schedule is pretty tight, but its as far as our money would take us.....!
Airlie beach was fab, our 3days sailing ion the whitsundays was an....adventure!!! The first two days involved alot of wind and raind and huge waves coming over the boat, very scary but kinda funny! Luckily the third day was gorgeous and we had some great opportunites to snorkell, laze on the beach and up on deck and the sun came our for our visit to whitehaven beach, it was so beautiful! We had a great group of people on board and had all had a good laugh.
We managed to get up to Cape Tribulation for 3days 2nights, which was also amazing. Its right in the heart of the Daintree Rainforest, and we stayed in a beach house, right by the gorgeous sandy Cape Trib beach, where the rainforest meets the sandy beach. Only trouble was i saw a very very big and long black snake on the path infront of me, when i was on my own at night!! i freaked out a bit needless to say and simon was no-where to be seen!! We went jungle surfing, which was great fun, and a great way to see the amazing rainforest.
Hope all you guys are ok!
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Friday, 11 July 2008
Queensland!!
Hi all!! Had a great time in Byron Bay, we then headed up to Brisbane, which was lovely.We had 3 nights there, really nice city, despite it raining all day long when we arrived!
We then went up to Noosa, really loved it there, beautiful beaches with lovely rainforest right by the sandy beaches. We went to Australia Zoo for the day (Steve Irwins zoo) was fab!! We saw
Terri Irwin do the croc wrestling show, great! and we saw Bindi Irwin perform her songs with the 'crocmen!' a little strange, but the crowd and all the little kids loved it.
We are now in Rainbow beach, just arrived back from a 2 day trip to Fraser Island, had sooo much fun! Had a great aussie tour guide, his fave word was 'fairdinkum!' Had a really nice group, and the island was amazing. We did a little plane ride over the island and we saw humpback whales splashing about in the ocean!! Swam in lake mckenzie, beautiful, sooo clear although was a little cold!!
We head up to airlie beach tomorrow, (18 hours in the Greyhound!) then go on our whitsundays sailing tour from there. We have booked a few days up in Cape Tribulation, staying in a beach house up there and going 'Jungle surfing' (flying through the canopys in a harness thing apparantly...!)
We head out to NZ on the 23rd from Cairns, a week sooner than planned, money running out so just speeding things up a little ;(
Soph and Si XXX!
We then went up to Noosa, really loved it there, beautiful beaches with lovely rainforest right by the sandy beaches. We went to Australia Zoo for the day (Steve Irwins zoo) was fab!! We saw
Terri Irwin do the croc wrestling show, great! and we saw Bindi Irwin perform her songs with the 'crocmen!' a little strange, but the crowd and all the little kids loved it.
We are now in Rainbow beach, just arrived back from a 2 day trip to Fraser Island, had sooo much fun! Had a great aussie tour guide, his fave word was 'fairdinkum!' Had a really nice group, and the island was amazing. We did a little plane ride over the island and we saw humpback whales splashing about in the ocean!! Swam in lake mckenzie, beautiful, sooo clear although was a little cold!!
We head up to airlie beach tomorrow, (18 hours in the Greyhound!) then go on our whitsundays sailing tour from there. We have booked a few days up in Cape Tribulation, staying in a beach house up there and going 'Jungle surfing' (flying through the canopys in a harness thing apparantly...!)
We head out to NZ on the 23rd from Cairns, a week sooner than planned, money running out so just speeding things up a little ;(
Soph and Si XXX!
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
Byron Bay!!
hi guys!! we are in byron bay- its a great little beach town, very chilled out with a great hippy feel! beautiful beach. We are enjoying being lazy on the beach and not doing alot. The 12 hour greyhound bus journey up here did us in a bit!!
We had an amazing time in sydney, was great. We spent the weekend in the blue mountains which was gorgeous and simon had his birthday up there. Manly was great, as was bondi too. and all the sights, sydney bridge, sydney opera house, the harbour were all great to see.
We are heading up to brisbane tomorrow, then up to rainbow beach where we are doing a fraiser island trip, then up to the whitsundays for a 3 day sailing trip there, cant wait!
Weather gorgeous!!
hope everyone is ok in the uk! enjoy wimbledon!
ciao X
We had an amazing time in sydney, was great. We spent the weekend in the blue mountains which was gorgeous and simon had his birthday up there. Manly was great, as was bondi too. and all the sights, sydney bridge, sydney opera house, the harbour were all great to see.
We are heading up to brisbane tomorrow, then up to rainbow beach where we are doing a fraiser island trip, then up to the whitsundays for a 3 day sailing trip there, cant wait!
Weather gorgeous!!
hope everyone is ok in the uk! enjoy wimbledon!
ciao X
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
