It's time for an update now:) We spent 3 weeks in Australia and are now in Wellington, New Zealand where Selma studies( Jorgens sister, check her blog if you havent already its awesome ).
After Sydney we took the train to Brisbane, and from there we rented a car to drive up along the north coast of Australia.
About 4 hours north of Brisbane we took a boat to Frazer Island. This Island is famous for its unique sand vegetation. It is the largest sand island in the world. And despite of being a sand island it has lots if vegetation, freshwater lakes and many different kinds of wild life. All kinds of trees and plants grew extremely well in this environment. We went on a trip around the island. First we went swimming in this freshwater lake.
Lake McKenzie, a freshwater lake on Frazer Island
We were told to watch our bags carefully because of the dingos in the area. They were known for running off with peoples bags.
Afterwards we took a walk in an old rain forest. It was incredibly beautiful to walk by this little river.
Rain forest walk
Looking for snakes and other creatures
After Frazer island we drove up the coast stopping by many towns and small places. Driving on the Australian roads we saw many snakes, wallabys, kangaroos, toads and rabbits. Unfortunately most of them were dead, lying in the road.
When we had been driving a few more days we went on another boat trip to an island called South Molle island. Here we stayed at a resort (the only one on the island). This resort had sort of a trial project going on. They called themselves Koala Adventure island, and didn't allow anyone under the age of 18 to enter the resort. The resort itself was quite nice with a big swimming pool, nice rooms (at least after we got an upgrade because there were so few people there), tennis courts, a golf court and much more. The downside was that none of the two restaurants were open (again because of the few people on the the resort), so the only place we could get something to eat on the whole island was in the resort cafe. There the food was really really bad. The selection consisted of hold-it like food called sousagerolls, gourmet pie (small pie with black goo oozing out of it) and mini pizza (wet, uncooked, tini tiny) mmmmmmmm.....
Yellow and black- striped spider right outside out hotel room door
Our first days down under, we spent in Sydney, doing tourist kind of things like the Wild life park, Darling Harbour, The Rocks and so on. The days we spent here were a little amputated because of my (Hildes) ear infection and dentist visiting. Sydney is a big city, with more people than in the whole of Norway combined. The first day we ended up in Chinatown, and that made us wonder if we were back in Asia again. When we were searching for accommodation the first day we fond a lot of hotels. Only the hotels in Australia are not a place you sleep and eat breakfast, it's pubs-restaurants-gambling spots. So that made it a little hard to find accommodation before we realized the difference.
After Sydney we took the train to Brisbane, and from there we rented a car to drive up along the north coast of Australia.
About 4 hours north of Brisbane we took a boat to Frazer Island. This Island is famous for its unique sand vegetation. It is the largest sand island in the world. And despite of being a sand island it has lots if vegetation, freshwater lakes and many different kinds of wild life. All kinds of trees and plants grew extremely well in this environment. We went on a trip around the island. First we went swimming in this freshwater lake.
Lake McKenzie, a freshwater lake on Frazer Island
We were told to watch our bags carefully because of the dingos in the area. They were known for running off with peoples bags.
Afterwards we took a walk in an old rain forest. It was incredibly beautiful to walk by this little river.
Rain forest walk
Looking for snakes and other creatures
Driving at the beach, no roads needed
After Frazer island we drove up the coast stopping by many towns and small places. Driving on the Australian roads we saw many snakes, wallabys, kangaroos, toads and rabbits. Unfortunately most of them were dead, lying in the road.
When we had been driving a few more days we went on another boat trip to an island called South Molle island. Here we stayed at a resort (the only one on the island). This resort had sort of a trial project going on. They called themselves Koala Adventure island, and didn't allow anyone under the age of 18 to enter the resort. The resort itself was quite nice with a big swimming pool, nice rooms (at least after we got an upgrade because there were so few people there), tennis courts, a golf court and much more. The downside was that none of the two restaurants were open (again because of the few people on the the resort), so the only place we could get something to eat on the whole island was in the resort cafe. There the food was really really bad. The selection consisted of hold-it like food called sousagerolls, gourmet pie (small pie with black goo oozing out of it) and mini pizza (wet, uncooked, tini tiny) mmmmmmmm.....
Yellow and black- striped spider right outside out hotel room door
View from hotel veranda
No doubt which country we're in
Really big things are obviously a big hit in Australia
Road trip stop
Looking for a bathroom at the old railway station
Ok, there will come some more about Austalia hopefully, but no more imagination at the time being.
So catch you later, we are off to meet Selma.
Don't worry mom, she looks really healthy and seem to have heaps of fun, her blog doesnt seem fake :P And she aint even freezing although she is wearing less clothes then we are, thats kinda strange isnt it?
Ps: Comments wanted :) Or else we might not publish any more posts!
ReplyDeleteYay Hilde!( and Jøgga for moral support).
ReplyDeleteShe's telling the truth as well, they're still alive even though they're really cold. Windy Welly takes some getting used to...
And as for the comments: Come on people!! (yeah, e, e, mom and all, we know you dont have anything better to do anyway, so just tell us how jealous you are;)!)
Jepp, misunnelig er vi :) Ser ut som dere har det helt suverent. Men nå er det jo bare en drøy måned til vi farter nedover til Frankrike. Det blir nok fælt å tilbringe 3 uker der nede med sol og sommer :)
ReplyDeleteDen edderkoppen håper jeg dere har sendt et eget, stooort bilde av til min kjære mor ;) Hun er jo så glad i disse søte dyrene! Men den så ikke egentlig veldig edderkopp-aktig ut da...
Ellers er vel alt som vanlig her hjemme. Ane vokser og gjør nye ting hver dag. Nå har hun jo snart tatt igjen My i størrelse her.
Dere får kose dere masse videre. Hils Selma :)
Oh, I forgot worrying about snakes! Maybe I could worry now, after Australia, that I did not worry? Or maybe I could satart worrying about svines, before you move on into flu-countries. Being a mother of travelling people is very very busy. Take care. Nice pictures, love to see NZ as you see it also. (No snakes there!)
ReplyDeleteEndelig nytt på bloggen. Da er det straks fram med kartet igjen. Bare fortsett dere å sende post, fine bilder. Skulle gjerne vært en tur til Frazer Island selv, men jeg vet ikke om jeg ville gått så langt inn i regnskogen. Håper formen er tilbake nå, Hilde, så dere får reist rundt som dere har planlagt. Det må være spennende å oppleve så mye nytt hele tiden, men sikkert anstrengende også. Artig at dere treffer kjentfolk helt på New Zealand. Takk for sms'en, jeg ble veldig overasket da jeg ble vekket av koselig morsdagshilsen halv åtte sist søndag morgen. Her er det nå blitt lysegrønt den siste uka, og vi har begynt å ordne litt i hagen. Lurer på hvor dere skal nå?
ReplyDeleteAnne Marit og Kjetil hilser dere også god, varm tur videre.
Vi vil vite mer, takk, mer og mer.
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