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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Hulk 1 - Amy and Jesse 0
We managed to look the keys in the car and surprisingly it was a lot harder to get into than you'd think. Although we're not career criminals so maybe that had something to do with it.
We're in mission beach for 2 nights now.
Oh and I cuddled a koala, an aligator, a blue tongue lizard , a wombat, a wallabe, and a spikey dragon today! I must say the koala was the cutest although the wallabe and wombat were pretty cute as well.
Amy
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Magnetic island
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View of magnetic island from The Strand in Townsville.
Unfortunately, we will not make it to Magnetic island, it's supposed to be beautiful and have a whole bunch of critters, but we're time strapped among other things and will be missing it.
It was named Magnetic Island by James Cook because he thought the magnetic rocks were interfearing with his surveying equiptment.
Jesse
The big mango
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This was a big mango, cleverly titled the big mango. Don't really know anything about it, we just passed it on the highway.
Wonder if they're famous for mango pies like our big apple is for apple pies.
Jesse
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Underwater pictures are fun
That's the 13th, I have just posted about 16 times so you should start at the bottom and read up, there's a bit of a progresion and it might make a little more sense. Start at "our view..."
Jesse
Whitehaven beach
Pictures can only show so much about a place, and as beautiful as the photos we have are, they really can't do justice to actually being there. When we got there they said we should go up to the lookout first to get some pictures. I think if we hadn't done that first we would have forgotten about it as we strolled on the unbelievably fine sand.
I am glad we did though, because the view was nothing short of spectacular. On the way to the lookout the path opens up an you get your first look of the beach. It was really funny to watch peoples reactions as the beach came into view.
I saw many people do this and everyone of them made some sort of noise reflecting their astonishment. A lot of them words of disbelief, while others were just gasps.
I will also post more pictures of the beach.
The sand on the beach itself is something that I didn't think existed. It is so incredibly fine that when I was looking at some grains on my fingertips i noticed that one grain of sand fit into the crevices of my fingerprint with ease. The feeling of the sand on your feet is amazing as well.
Apparently (and I say apparently because it wad just our captain who told us this and I haven't verified it yet) no one is allowed to take sand from the beach and the only people to ever to be allowed were NASA, who took 1 tonne in order to use it to make the lens for the Hubble space telescope.
Jesse
I am glad we did though, because the view was nothing short of spectacular. On the way to the lookout the path opens up an you get your first look of the beach. It was really funny to watch peoples reactions as the beach came into view.
I saw many people do this and everyone of them made some sort of noise reflecting their astonishment. A lot of them words of disbelief, while others were just gasps.
I will also post more pictures of the beach.
The sand on the beach itself is something that I didn't think existed. It is so incredibly fine that when I was looking at some grains on my fingertips i noticed that one grain of sand fit into the crevices of my fingerprint with ease. The feeling of the sand on your feet is amazing as well.
Apparently (and I say apparently because it wad just our captain who told us this and I haven't verified it yet) no one is allowed to take sand from the beach and the only people to ever to be allowed were NASA, who took 1 tonne in order to use it to make the lens for the Hubble space telescope.
Jesse
On the catamaran
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The pride of airlie. For those of you with a keen eye, you might notice that this is not the same ship as we previously posted. Apparently there is more than one Pride of Airlie, and the one we posted before was very different from this one. I have a better picture of the full ship which I will post later, but this one is geotagged to wherever we were at that point.
Jesse
Our view for the night
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This was our view from our room on South Molle island for two nights. We didn't spend much time in the room, the island was pretty fun and there was a bar at the resort.
The food was terrible, but that's about the only thing that was bad at all. The resort had a 9-hole pitch and putt that I thought about playing, but it was $25 and there was very little time to do it and no one to play with.
Jesse
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sailing and playing with whales
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We're out sailing the Whitsunday island and we've come across a pod of whales. It is really amazing.
Amy
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Airlie beach
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We've arrived in arlie beach. It is a beautiful tourist town, not much else but shops and bars and a couple of marinas. From here we do a three day, two night sailing tour of the Whitsunday islands. We leave tomorrow afternoon and don't get back until Wednesday. We will be sleeping on an island each night and snorkeling the great barrier reef among other things during the day.
Don't know if we'll be able to blog over that time period, probably won't be any reception on our phones. We'll blog lots when we get back I suppose. We stocked up on sunscreen today, hopefully I won't get too crispy.
Jesse
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The wrath of Amy
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Well about a kilometre back or so, Amy left a trail of death. A bird flew into the car and she showed no mercy. Poor little bird, not sure what kind it was, but it's no longer living, that's for sure. This highway is riddled with roadkill, more than I have ever seen. I've seen five dead animals in the time it took me to write this post.
Happier news next I hope.
Jesse
Small little stops along the way
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A small little caravan park and motel that has showers and washrooms for us, we're pretty comfortable in our tent with our blowup mattress, so these little places are great. Going to cook up some food on the BBQ and call it an early night I think, exciting things happening tomorrow through to Wednesday.
Jesse
Our neighbours
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A bunch of these guys came to check out our campsite as we set up the tent.
Jesse
Friday, July 10, 2009
We got ourselves a convoy
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So picture this we're driving through hervey bay when we come across 150 and counting transports honking their way down the main road. It turns out that it's called 'convoy for kids' we're not to sure what they are raising money for specifically but it's pretty impressive. We also noticed a lot of people standing outside which was a little out of place at 10am. We'll have to do a little more research on the whole thing to try and find out more. Jesse just informed me that all the trucks are going to the park to do burn-outs.
Amy
Hervey bay
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Last night we stayed in hervey bay it was a really cool hostel that had a restaurant teand bar in the main area. You could just hang out on the couches or you could eat or get some drinks. They had a happyiest hour (not happy hour) where there were $7 pitchers.
We tented it at this hostel which wad great, we still got to use all of the facilities, but it only cost us $9 a person. I'm glad it's warm enough to tent now, we can save some money over the rest of hour trip.
Plan to tent it somewhere again tonight, don't know where yet though.
Jesse
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Lunch in Gympie
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Last nights leftovers for a quick lunch as we try to make it further north. We're on a deadline now, about 12 more hours of driving over today and the next two days left so that we make it to the Whitsundays in time for our sailing trip.
Jesse
Surfers paradise
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We walked down the beach this morning before heading north to go camping. The weathers warm enough to wear shorts, even if it doesn't look like it in the picture.
Surfers paradise
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Partying in surfers paradise Amy just found out she's passed her course.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Lighthouse lookout
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This is the view from a lighthouse in Byron bay. The path in the picture is the Captain Cook lookout. It was very windy. The weather is starting to get warmer and warmer and we continue to head further north.
Next stop surfers paradise, don't know if it will quite be warm enough to try a surf ourselves, but I hear it's a nice party town.
Jesse
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Coffs harbour
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The calm before the storm...
This is coffs harbour, one of our stops along the way with a great hostel everyone was really friendly.
We're on our way to Byron Bay today hoping the weather stays sunny and warm.
Keep the comments coming we love reading them.
Amy
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Dolphins
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Don't know how well you can see them in this picture, but we took tons of photos with our good camera, so we'll post some of those when we can
Jesse
Dolphin and whale watching
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We're off to dolphin and whale watch on a catamaran called Imagine and who knows we might even get to sail!
Amy
End of the week recap
Well it's the end of the week, not a full week of travel, only the 6th night of travel, but a good time for a recap nonetheless.
First night, Phillip island, saw the penguins and koalas. Second night half way to Sydney in a small little town. Saw some kangaroos there. 3 nights in Sydney, those went by fast, there is tons to do in Sydney, and we did as muchas we could without spending too much money. It was an expensive 3 days regardless. Now we're in port stephens and will be keeping our eyes peeled for some mammals of the sea and some dolphins too.
It's still not that warm, haven't made
It far enough north yet. You can walk around in a tshirt, but it would be really cold if you got in the water.
The hulk (our car) seems to be doing ok and maybe he'll make the whole journey to cairns. Hopefully he does, well I'll keep posting, but I think Amy needs some incentive to post more.
We're at this really cool hostel right now which you can see in the previous post, well you can see part of it. It's interesting enough to deserve it's own post and since we have two nights here, I'll leave that till a later date.
Jesse
First night, Phillip island, saw the penguins and koalas. Second night half way to Sydney in a small little town. Saw some kangaroos there. 3 nights in Sydney, those went by fast, there is tons to do in Sydney, and we did as muchas we could without spending too much money. It was an expensive 3 days regardless. Now we're in port stephens and will be keeping our eyes peeled for some mammals of the sea and some dolphins too.
It's still not that warm, haven't made
It far enough north yet. You can walk around in a tshirt, but it would be really cold if you got in the water.
The hulk (our car) seems to be doing ok and maybe he'll make the whole journey to cairns. Hopefully he does, well I'll keep posting, but I think Amy needs some incentive to post more.
We're at this really cool hostel right now which you can see in the previous post, well you can see part of it. It's interesting enough to deserve it's own post and since we have two nights here, I'll leave that till a later date.
Jesse
Hostel in the jungle.
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That's a picture of the outdoor kitchen. I thinkni would love it in the summer, but it was a little chili while cooking up burgers for supper.
Jesse
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