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Fraser Island, Queensland

Posted 03 March 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 5 Comments

Wow, Fraser Island is a paradise island just off the coast from Hervey Bay, Queensland. It’s apparently the worlds largest sand island, i.e. made up entirely of sand, no clay or rocks, and it’s also a World Heritage park. It measures 120km long and 25km wide. Here’s a view of the western beach, also known […]

Whitsundays and Mon-repos

Posted 27 February 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 3 Comments

Hello from the Whitsunday islands !! This is the next post, further down the coast, we arrived in Airlie Beach, gateway to the Whitsunday Islands, lots of beautiful sandy beaches and plenty of resort style spots to keep you pampered… Español: Estamos en Airlie Beach, puerta de los Whitsunday Islands, muchas playas y complejos hoteleros […]

North Queensland Tropical Coast

Posted 19 February 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 17 Comments

Well G’Day all, how are ya goin’? We’ve made from Cairns up to Cape Tribulation/Daintree Rainforest, then up to the Atherton Tablands for a couple of days, then down via Townsville to Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday Islands (that’s for the next post)! Here’s the lagoon by the sea at Cairns, nice spot to cool […]

The Great Barrier Reef – Cairns- La Gran Barrera de Coral

Posted 13 February 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 1 Comment

The Great Barrier Reef We finally got to visit another of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World – The Great Barrier Reef is approx 2,000km long,stretching all along the eastern coast of Queensland. We went on a dive trip with Pro-Dive, 11 dives in 3 days, including 2 night dives – a first for […]

Uluru- Kings Canyon- Kata Tjuta (The Olgas)

Posted 05 February 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 22 Comments

Before you read this post , please have a look our previous post with the baby Kangaroos. Esp Antes de visitar Uluru echa un vistazo al post anterior con los bebes canguros.. Uluru – aka Ayers Rock Uluru is a good 450km hop from Alice Springs, so we decied to go on a 3day camping […]

Alice Springs and Baby Kangaroos

Posted 05 February 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 3 Comments

Hello all again! Well we’re here in Alice Springs, or just Alice as the locals call it! A small town right in the middle of Australia, in the desert, very hot, 36-40’C while we were there! Here’s a view of the town from Anzac Hill looking towards Heavitree Gap in the McDonnell Ranges. Español Aqui […]

Kakadu National Park – NT

Posted 26 January 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 7 Comments

We spent the last 2 days on a tour of the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park about 150km west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory. with more that 22.000 Km sq is one one the biggest National Parks in Australia. This national Park belongs to an aborigen community where they take care of the […]

Darwin- North Territory

Posted 23 January 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 1 Comment

Hi again from Darwin, We are closer to Singapore than Sydney, this country is as big as the whole Europe, is like traveling from Turkey to Sweden . and is as different as those two countries. The climate here is tropical , it has two seasons the dry season from May to September and the […]

Back to Sydney and “misty” Blue Mountains

Posted 17 January 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 5 Comments

Back from Queensland and we did the walk from Bondi Beach to Bronte Beach, nice walk along the coast but we were dying to get out of the city, we hadn’t seen much nature, so it was time to put our skates on. Thanks to Nadine and John for driving us into the Blue Mountains, […]

Surfers Paradise – Gold Coast and Janis farewell

Posted 12 January 2006 | By | Categories: Australia, Photos, Travel | 1 Comment

Welcome to Surfers Paradise This place is massive….! It is in the heart of Gold Coast – Queensland –Quene’sland 😉 . Huge beaches with big waves, skyscrapers , great night life and lots of mad people ready to enjoy themselves . The weather was very bad so what else you do when you can’t swim […]