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AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Views [626] | Comments [3]
Having come through sub-tropical rainforests , learned to drive on the other side of the road , squished squeaky sand between our toes at beach towns, slept in the chilly high-altitude tablelands , fossicked
for treasure in opal mining ... Read more >
Tags: black queen, lightning ridge, australia, world nomads, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 | Views [684]
As the road south from the climbing and trekking Mecca of
Grampians National Park spilled out onto the ocean a few hours later, we knew
our World Nomads Ambassador adventure was coming to an end. But it wasn’t a sad
moment, because we plan to ... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, ambassador van, great ocean road, australia, lonely planet great guidebook moment
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 17 Jul 2008 | Views [429]
Being from Canada,
we feel right at home in Oz. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again.
Everywhere we turn, we see more and more similarities
between Australia
and Canada, and
are amazed that two countries so far apart geographically ... Read more >
Tags: brambuk cultural centre, grampians, world nomads, ambassador van, australia, aboriginal culture
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 17 Jul 2008 | Views [481] | Comments [2]
Pursuant to my earlier post on caravan parks , we have
become quite acquainted with the likes of these travel stops as the weeks have
progressed on our World Nomads Whirlwind Trip. And no two parks are the same,
which is part of the charm of ... Read more >
Tags: caravan parks, australia, world nomads, ambassador van, grampians, mildura
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 11 Jul 2008 | Views [615] | Comments [1]
A long blare of a not-too-distant horn
echoed throughout Broken Hill around 6:30pm, while we were preparing dinner.
Shortly thereafter, a short blare of the horn followed.
Being of a volume and pitch similar to what
we heard in Hawaii ... Read more >
Tags: australia, world nomads, ambassador van, broken hill, outback
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 10 Jul 2008 | Views [501]
No, for once, this isn’t a story about Kelly needing medical assistance (as he did in Thailand and Hawaii )! No, instead, this is about an incredible tour we did of the Royal Flying Doctor Base in Broken Hill. ... Read more >
Tags: australia, world nomads, ambassador van, royal flying doctors service, outback, broken hill
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 10 Jul 2008 | Views [456]
When people told us about the colours of the outback – the stark contrast between the red of the dirt with the blue of the sky, and the silvery green of the eucalypt trees that dot the landscape – we were somewhat blasé about it. We knew it would ... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, ambassador van, australia, outback, driving
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 10 Jul 2008 | Views [1151]
“When I close my eyes, I see opals,” said Kelly, shaking his head. It seems he has a touch of opal fever. Lightning Ridge and the surrounding areas are famous for its abundance of opals, and in particular the black opal, which can basically ... Read more >
Tags: lightning ridge, world nomads, ambassador van, australia, opal mining, grawin
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 9 Jul 2008 | Views [523]
"Outback theatre with a twist," says the flyer for Black Queen , with a picture of an oil lamp and a woman with a mysterious look. I didn’t really anticipate that this mining town would exactly have a bustling theatre community, but there ... Read more >
Tags: lightning ridge, australia, outback, theatre, world nomads, ambassador van, black queen
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 9 Jul 2008 | Views [647]
When we rolled into Lightning Ridge , after a series of unfortunate and displeasing coincidences, we were ready to roll right back out the following day. I was crushed. Ever since reading about it in the Lonely Planet, I wanted to go, and was ... Read more >
Tags: australia, lightning ridge, world nomads, ambassador van, lonely planet great guidebook moment
AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 9 Jul 2008 | Views [542]
Upon first blush in Lightning Ridge, you may find an opal-mining town with very little to keep you here for more than a day or so. It reeks of an environment trying a touch too hard to be attractive to tourists. The one and only road to leading into ... Read more >
Tags: lightning ridge, australia, outback, opal mining, world nomads, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 4 Jul 2008 | Views [602]
or: How Close to a Kangaroo do You Think You Can Get? “I’m sure I’ll eventually get tired of seeing all these kangaroos, but for now I just can’t get enoug h of them,” I said, as I apologetically snapped off a few more pictures at one of my many ... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, ambassador van, warrumbungle national park, lonely planet great guidebook moment, sanchez
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 1 Jul 2008 | Views [390] | Comments [1]
Uralla - a very small town in the New England Tablelands
(read: high altitude lands) was a painful shot to our tropical arms. If we
thought we were cold in Springbrook , we didn’t know
what cold meant.
We knew we were in trouble ... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, ambassador van, uralla, cold
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 1 Jul 2008 | Views [749] | Comments [2] | Video
Byron Bay
is lovely. It is a surf town full of surf shops, surf food places, surf cafes,
and more surf-y stuff. Everything is horribly over-priced, but that’s what you
get in a touristy town with tons of character.
It was the small towns ... Read more >
Tags: deep sea fishing, australia, ballina, world nomads, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 26 Jun 2008 | Views [663] | Comments [2]
“I hope you don’t mind having a corpse in the back of the van,” Wendy said in her ever-cheerful demeanor. She was loading the body of a pademelon (a small kangaroo from the looks of it) wrapped in her raincoat onto the back seat. It had been hit ... Read more >
Tags: vision walks, australia, byron bay, ballina, minion falls, world nomads, ambassador van, night walks, nature
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 26 Jun 2008 | Views [599]
Caravans ( meaning trailers in Australian ) and caravan parks are everywhere in Oz. Trailer Parks. Tornado Bait. Trailer Trash. Drunks on welfare raising families of six kids born from three different fathers (or mothers). Lots of stained white ... Read more >
Tags: caravan parks, world nomads, ambassador van, australia, nimbin, evans head
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [584] | Video
Evans Head (about an hour south of Byron
Bay) was a surprising treat and a
little sample of absolute paradise. Knowing we would be kayaking the following
morning , we pulled into the nearby
caravan park. We were surprised to discover it ... Read more >
Tags: australia, evans head, world nomads, ambassador van, squeaky sand, loud birds, giant bats, flying foxes
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [739] | Comments [3]
As with Edmonton ,
Hawaii , and Thailand , we are always on the prowl for little differences and idiosyncrasies
that add character to a place. And Australia
is home to many such charming qualities.
I remember reading ... Read more >
Tags: australia, world nomads, ambassador van, unique, funny
AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [455]
“Be careful of the crocs,” Sergio says as we steer our
kayaks up a small creek deep in the mangroves.
“Really? There are crocs here? Cool!” I say, feeling only a
little nervous with scenes from Crocodile Dundee flashing through my memory.... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, ambassador van, kayaking, evans river kayaks, evans head
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Jun 2008 | Views [1058]
Here’s how Lonely Planet primed us for the town of Nimbin:
Landing in Nimbin can
be like entering a social experiment, particularly at noon , when Byron day-trippers arrive en masse
and find themselves hectored by dreadlocked, tie-dyed ... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, ambassador van, lonely planet great guidebook moment, nimbin, arts and culture
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 21 Jun 2008 | Views [478] | Comments [1]
In researching our World Nomads Ambassador trip in Australia,
we knew that we would be charging headlong into winter. And after having
avoided the frigid winter of mainland North America by
being in Hawaii, I had started to
think that maybe we ... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, ambassador van, springbrook national park, camping, winter camping
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Views [7338] | Comments [1]
While walking through a dense sub-tropical rainforest:
Nora: I wonder how many snakes are in this park.
Kelly: Don’t be silly. It’s winter. They’re all hiding. I think they're hibernating.
Nora: Hibernating? Do snakes ... Read more >
Tags: brisbane, world nomads, ambassador van, springbrook national park, trekking, hiking, waterfalls
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Views [581] | Comments [3]
Kelly loves cheeseburgers. And we have both missed them
since we left our home in Canada
almost a year ago. But cheeseburgers do something for Kelly that goes beyond
simple fondness. In fact, when asked, Kelly will cite his all-time favourite
food ... Read more >
Tags: burger urge, eating, world nomads, ambassador van, brisbane
AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 | Views [463] | Comments [4] | Video
“We have to what? Drive a what? Where? And how?” was along
the lines of what I said as the reality sank in of having the World Nomads van
in our possession for the next six weeks.
I had spent the last few months in Asia
studying the ... Read more >
Tags: brisbane, driving in australia, world nomads, ambassador van
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | Views [554] | Comments [2]
Our first week in Australia
has been an amazing one, due in no small part to the kindness of others we have
received.
Cairns
Through our Hospitality Club membership (one of the
organizations I researched for an article on ... Read more >
Tags: world nomads, ambassador van, brisbane, cairns, bunk brisbane, hospitality club
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