travel

Day 26 - Canberra

Travel

Par ced

We woke up at 11am and drove to the next town to get petrol (we were not sure to make it – I calculated afterwards that we probably had 4L left). We wanted to head back straight to Melbourne with a stop at Canberra (Australia's capital, not Sydney). Canberra...

Lire la suite

Day 25 - Jervis bay

Travel

Par ced

We left her place at 3.30pm and we drove to Jervis bay, which took us 2hrs. Once there we faced an entry of the national park where the employee told us that there was no available camp site left. We decided not to stay at Jervis Bay but just had a look...

Lire la suite

Day 24 - Nelson bay

Travel

Par ced

We woke up at 11am, packed up rapidly after breakfast and crossed the forest to the beach, where we met a fisherman and its dog. We hit back the road to Woolongong, 100kms south of Sydney, and stopped to high sand dunes close to Anna bay (Nelson bay)...

Lire la suite

Day 23 - Kempsey

Travel

Par ced

We woke up with the sound of the music, very nice. We drove towards Sydney (300kms) and stopped by a national park close to Kempsey. We were surrounded by some kind of tropical trees and found enough wood to make a big fire and cooked a fish on it. We...

Lire la suite

Day 22 - Nimbin

Travel

Par ced

We should have checked out at 10am but were quite tired and decided to stay another night in order to enjoy peacefully the day in this artistic hippy town which attracted more tourists than I thought, even though most of the inhabitants looked truly hippy,...

Lire la suite

Day 21 - Quicksilver surf championship

Travel

Par ced

We left at 1.30pm for the Quicksilver surf championship at Tweed Head, close to Gold Coast. The competition was not on at the time but there were some good surfers (one even swam with a dolphin). Then we went shopping and left for Nimbin. We were surprised...

Lire la suite

Day 20 - Brisbane

Travel

Par ced

Packed up everything straight after waking up at 7am, left at 7.30am and went to the port to approach the dolphins very near. We took a shower in the public amenities, cleaned the car and hit the road for the glass house, which is a set of lava residues...

Lire la suite

Day 19 - Frazer island

Travel

Par ced

We woke up at 7am in order to have breakfast and be at 8am in the bus – we were not late this time! In fact, the annoying point in the tour was a tight schedule to see things with a very strict timing. We went straight to the lake MacKenzie, which is...

Lire la suite

Day 18 - Frazer island

Travel

Par ced

We woke up at 6.30am and arrived just on time at the appointment at 7.45am. We arrived at Fraser island at 9am. The island is listed as a world heritage because it is totally composed of sand, there is no soil anywhere on the island. Then we went to the...

Lire la suite

Day 17 - Hervey bay

Travel

Par ced

We woke up at 10am and left at 12pm for Hervey Bay. On the way we stopped in a shopping centre to eat and get water (after having been sick with the river smelling water of Taree I decided to buy water). On the way we checked the prices of the 4WD hire...

Lire la suite