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August 30, 2004Look 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...Read this update August 26, 2004Crikey! 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,...Read this update August 25, 2004Koalas and Snakes in NoosaI 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...Read this update 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...Read this update 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...Read this update North Stradbroke IslandAfter 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...Read this update August 20, 2004Heading up the coastLooks 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...Read this update August 12, 2004Welcome 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...Read this update August 09, 2004Out of AfricaNamibia was definately my favorite African country - I didn't want to leave the dunes. I am sure I will be coming back to spend more time in Namibia some day. We had a brief stop at Fish River Canyon...Read this update Sossusvlei and SesreimWe were supossed to leave early in the morning the next day after the sandboarding/ATV'ing for a town called Sesreim, which is the gateway to the Namib Naukluft National Park, in hopes of seeing the sunset from the top of...Read this update August 07, 2004Woooooo Hoooooo!!!For my last day in Swakopmund, I went sandboarding and 4 wheeling. FUN! I've never sandboarded, or snowboarded before, so there was a little lesson, and then I was on my own. It was fun, outside of having to climb...Read this update |
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