Cedric Hemmert Australie MBA
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
We checked out at 10am, took a shower and ate lunch. We went for a 5 kms walk in the national park, departing from the camp site. We parked on the track leading to the camp and started walking in the sand under a heavy sun; the walk was hard and long....
After a second night in the camping surrounded by skyscrapers we checked out at 10am, we went for a swim in the swimming pool of the camp site, and went to Safeway in order to get ice and food for lunch. As we cooked we met some Australians who advised...
We woke up at 11am, went shopping until 5pm and enjoyed the beach until night, 7pm in Queensland because they do not have daylight saving. The beach was very nice and not as crowded as I expected, very relaxing with pure, fine sand making noise when you...
We brought the car to the garage where they told us that it could take up to Friday and cost more than $1,000. We looked for another motel close by the repair shop and we went shopping. I started to have stomach ache – I was suspecting the muddy tasted...
We woke up at 11am, assuming that the car will not be ready this time! I called, nobody answered, we went then there at 1pm and were surprised to hear that the car was fixed. We exchanged the yens Nozomi brought with to pay the mechanics and came back...
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...
We woke up at 7am and went to the beach. We were surprised to see so many 4WD driving along the beach. We went back to sleep until 11am, packed up and went to the beach for a swim because the sun was really hitting to hard! My health condition got better....
In the day we realised that it was a caravan park mostly inhabited by grey nomads, the Australian elderlies selling their house in order to get a good camping van and travel around the country – up to now I just saw them in Queensland, but it has to be...
We woke up at 10am, packed up and were ready at 12pm. We went to the beach until 4pm. I tried to fish there but the current was too strong and brought my sinker back to the beach all the time. We walked up the Red Rock (called like that because of the...
We woke up at 9am by a ranger asking us to pay the camp site fees. We went back to bed until 12pm. It was raining and we packed up painfully until 2pm. I checked the car which lost 2L of coolant again, just after having driven 50kms. Moreover a pipe going...
We woke up at 11.30am because we did not hear the alarm. We went to see Linda at her workplace close by at 12.30pm and said her bye. We hit the road at 2pm. I drove under the rain and stopped around 6pm for a car check – I lost more than 2L of water....
We woke up at 1pm, Linda was still asleep (she woke up at 4pm actually). We did not do much, just took it easy, the weather conditions being so bad. We watched TV and prepared the dinner for them. We went to bed late because Teri wanted to play karaoke...
We left at 3pm and we arrived at 9pm at the entry of the snowy mountains, close to a lake at a free camp site. On the way we drove through a thick smoke, due to the bush fires (black Saturday few days ealrier), hiding the surrounding mountains. We were...
Français Vu que nous avons beaucoup d'espace dans le jardin nous avons commencé à faire un jardin accueillant pour l'instant des tomates, des petits pois, du persil, des épinards et de la menthe. Vu le soleil je pense que l'on ne devrait pas avoir trop...
We woke up at 1pm and left at 4pm for the Yarrangobily caves. We stopped on the way to see an abandoned village. The caves were numerous, in the mountains, over a beautiful view: many hills welcoming a small river in the middle. One cave had an opening...
Français Mes collocataires m'appellent car ils entendaient un bruit étrange en face de leur chambre. Je prends ma torche dans la voiture et nous cherchons une dizaine de minutes pour trouver la bête :)! English My house mates heard a weird sound in front...
