Archive for the ‘Australia Travel’ Category
Friday, March 14th, 2008
With the long weekend in early March we headed south back to the south coast which previously saw in November when we went down to Esperance. We'd initially planned to go to the Margaret River region which is about 3 hours south of Perth, but had left it too ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
This is the 3rd Part of the summary of our trip around Australia: if you came in late:
Part 1 is here
Part 2 is here
The general plan I described as we waited to service the truck in Melbourne pretty316much worked out - that' a first! We wanted to go to ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
This is the 2nd part of my summary of our trip around Austalia: Part 1 is here
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As New Zealanders the East Coast of Australia is nearby and a common destination to escape the winter cold, or even the summer cold! So for this long trip we weren't ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
OK The TV is starting into the the summer season of repeats so I thought that I would re-cycle some electrons and do a series of digest posts of our trip around Australia so far. This blog really started to keep a record of the trip to replace ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
As I mentioned we headed out of town for a few days -ended up going south to Esperance 1500km in 4 days isn't that far really! We had a great time and not only got to see Cape le Grand but also stopped by Wave Rock, which is, well, a ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Its looking like we are going to be here for a while and we are wondering if its time to replaced our dearly loved truckie as he has got himself a bit of a drinking problem around town. The diesel mileage is dramatically worse doing short hops around town ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
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Went a saw the first day of the Red Bull Air Race over the Swan River on Saturday. OK I'd never heard of it either! Basically its a low-level acrobatic race through blow-up pillions anchored over water - Perth was the final with previous races this year in ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
275|250I think my friend Susi wasn't doing a lot of work on Friday we exchanged about 20 emails planning her upcoming trip to Cairns and the Daintree. I like doing that sort of thing so it was no problem and anyway we had been through the area a ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
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Winter is finally finishing according to the locals - the beach is Scarborough Beach about 1km from our flat, taken on a "winter's day" - about 21C. Today is forecast for 33C so I guess that's spring! Anyway its not often that we are the ones with the killer ...
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
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We ventured south today to a suburb called Rockingham - clear water, beautiful beaches (a bit cool for swimming though), a oil refinery, a nickel smelter and an aluminum smelter, oh and a bulk grain terminal - weird. Doesn't seem to affect property prices though - over $600k for ...
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