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October 12, 2004

The longest day of my life

I arrived in Sydney after the uneventful overnight train from Melbourne and checked back into the RG Hotel, where I stayed after my arrival from Africa two months ago. My only plans for the rest of my time here were...

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October 06, 2004

The Great Ocean Road to Melbourne

The Great Ocean Road was built in the 1930's as a memorial to World War I servicemen, and is about 400 kilometers long along the south west coast of Victoria. It seemed to me like Australias version of Highway 1...

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October 05, 2004

11:55am wednesday to 7:05am friday

Considered one of "Australia's Great Train Journeys," Indian-Pacific is named as such because it starts in Perth (on the Indian Ocean) and ends in Sydney (on the Pacific Ocean). I took the train only to Adelaide, because I wanted to...

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September 27, 2004

Down the West Side

My original thought for getting from Broome to Perth was to rent a car and do it on my own. Every car rental company wanted to charge me about $2000 to do a one way hire, so I decided to...

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Broome Broome

I had originally not planned to see the western side of Australia, but somewhere near Townsville on the east coast, after speaking with a lot of travelers who raved about it, I changed my whole itinerary for the rest of...

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September 18, 2004

Kakadu, Litchfield and Mary River

Whos crazy idea was it to go hiking in 110 degree heat and 85% humidity? Oh that's right, it was my idea. I left Darwin early in the morning for a 3 day hiking tour to Kakadu, Litchfield and Mary...

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September 13, 2004

Up to the Top End

I went back to Alice Springs for a night and then on a 3 day bus journey to Darwin. To be honest, there really wasn't much on the 1500 km ride between Alice Springs and Darwin. Just one straight road,...

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September 10, 2004

Alice in RedRockLand

Aboriginals have inhabited Australia for the last ~40,000 years when they came across the straits of what is now Indonesia and Papua New Guinea during the Ice Age. Europeans invaded Australia by sending a shipload of convicts to Sydney Harbor...

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September 07, 2004

The Atherton Tablelands

After the excitement in Tully, I headed up to Cairns where I was planning to rent a car to explore the Atherton Tableland. On the way I stopped at a little reptile park, where the highlight was seeing this blue...

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The Golden Gumboot

Just north of Cardwell along the coast is a small town called Tully. Tullys claim to fame is that it has the most rainfall of any city in Australia. On average, the annual rainfall in Tully is 4 meters! To...

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September 03, 2004

Castaway

I arrived into Cardwell looking for a little bit of luxury after weeks of camping and staying in hostels. I found a recommendation in the Lonely Planet for a B & B called Mudbrick Manor, which is owned by Ken...

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August 30, 2004

Look what I made!

After the Australia Zoo, I left Noosa and headed inland to a place called Namoi Hills, in the teensy weensy town called Dingo, about 100km west of Rockhampton. It was highly recommended to me by Kilimanjaro Karen, who was there...

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August 26, 2004

Crikey! Danger Danger Danger!

Australia Zoo! What a wierd place. It started out as just a small reptile park in 1970 run by Bob and Lyn Irwin, Steve Irwins parents. By the time Steve was 9 years old he had wrestled his first crocodile,...

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August 25, 2004

Koalas and Snakes in Noosa

I left the Australia Zoo and arrived in Noosa just after dark. I met a girl on the ferry from North Stradbroke who recommended Noosa National Park so I planned to spend a day or so hiking there. Noosa National...

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Julian Rocks!

I arrived at the Byron Bay Dive Center at about 7:30am and met Garth, who was going to be my guide for the dive at the Julian Rocks Marine Reserve. He gave me all the gear I was going to...

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It's the "other side" not the "WRONG side"

Darcy dropped me off at the Hertz Rental Office in downtown Brisbane at 9:00 am where I picked up my Toyota Echo. I was a little nervous about my first driving experience being in a big city, but it was...

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North Stradbroke Island

After having travelled down the coast from Cairns to Sydney back in 1997 and done the major tourist things then (namely - Fraser Island and the Whitsundays), I'm trying to get off the tourist track a little bit, although that...

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August 20, 2004

Heading up the coast

Looks like I left Sydney just in time, I hear it has been raining like crazy since I left. My first stop on the way up to Byron Bay was the Warrumbungles National Park. I stayed at a campground just...

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August 12, 2004

Welcome back to Oz!

Although I really enjoy seeing new places and becoming familiar with the unknown, it was great to get to Sydney knowing that it would already be familiar. I spent 6 months here during my last year of college, so aside...

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