Australia
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Tuesday, 1 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
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Tuesday, 1 Jul 2008 | Photo Gallery
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Thursday, 26 Jun 2008 | Views [4016] | 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: ambassador van, australia, ballina, byron bay, minion falls, nature, night walks, vision walks, world nomads
Thursday, 26 Jun 2008 | Views [6371]
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: ambassador van, australia, caravan parks, evans head, nimbin, world nomads
Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [4825] | 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: ambassador van, australia, evans head, flying foxes, giant bats, loud birds, squeaky sand, world nomads
Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [6394] | 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: ambassador van, australia, funny, unique, world nomads
Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Views [3398]
“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: ambassador van, evans head, evans river kayaks, kayaking, world nomads
Tuesday, 24 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
a gorgeous beach south of Byron Bay
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Saturday, 21 Jun 2008 | Views [13597] | Comments [11]
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: ambassador van, arts and culture, lonely planet great guidebook moment, nimbin, world nomads
Saturday, 21 Jun 2008 | Views [4043] | 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: ambassador van, camping, springbrook national park, winter camping, world nomads
Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Views [22158] | Comments [2]
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: ambassador van, brisbane, hiking, springbrook national park, trekking, waterfalls, world nomads
Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Views [2567] | 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: ambassador van, brisbane, burger urge, eating, world nomads
Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
A few days in the Springbrook National Park...chilly but beautiful
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Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 | Views [3299] | 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: ambassador van, brisbane, driving in australia, world nomads
Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
us in the Glass House Mounrains (duh!), north of Brisbane
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Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | Views [3308] | 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: ambassador van, brisbane, bunk brisbane, cairns, hospitality club, world nomads
Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | Views [1374]
After six weeks in Asia, there are a
number of things we find amazingly refreshing about Australia:
The
ability to express affection in public. Every once in a while we’ll engage
in a liplock in the middle of a busy street ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, asia, brisbane, world nomads
Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008 | Views [1496]
We (Nora Dunn & Kelly Bedford) were never the sort of
people who do things in small measures.
We don’t just bungee jump; Kelly is an instructor and I have
jumped all around the world (including the world’s highest bungee jump ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, brisbane, world nomads
Saturday, 31 May 2008 | Photo Gallery
Nora & Kelly in Australia, general
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