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September 05 does'nt time flycan't beleive what the date is already the 5th september 2007! we have traveled up the east coast of oz in our wicked camper van, thats the name of the company that we rented it from, it had ali g painted on the side of it, while traveling you would see loads of the wicked campers driving around, it was like a little community, every time you passed each other always a beep of the horn or a freindly wave, we started of in brisbane spent new year in a hostle where we meet loads of great people all looking for the same thing from all over the world. we then picked up our ali g camper van and thats where our journey began. the feeling of freedoom i will never forget, knowing you can do anything and end up any where the road could take you, noosa,(here we stayed in a bush camp called gagaju, while we where only visting others lived a simple life here,) hervy bay,(we sailed the whit sunday islands) 1770 (after a long drive we were pleased to see the clear blue cool shallow sea for a dip and a cold beer), bundaberg, rockhampton (while here we stopped off for a nice cold pint and got chatting to the bar man, he was a music fan, all the bands he mentioned we had never heard of, he diciced he was going to burn us off a cd to listen to while we carried on the rest of our journey, we picked it up the next day, what a great cd it was, that music will always remind me of what a fantastic time we had, what a nice man) mackay,airlie beach, townsville, cairns (this day was one experiance i will never forget, we jetted to the great barrier reef on a high speed boat, went snorkiling with a array of multi coloured fish and coral, swam with turtles, seen a gaint clam over 200 years old, went on a glass bottom boat, then had a helicopter ride back the city of carines over the beauiful barrier reef, what a day!) port douglas. here was the end of our time traveling up the east coast now we where traveling in land heading towards the red center over the atherton tablelands, this is where done alot of driving, i say we, i cant drive so poor old gaz! stopping for sleep and food then kept driving thourgh ravenshoe, charters towers, hughenden, (all tiny villages), barkly homestead, (was just a petrol station with a camp ground and pool we jumped straight in, the heat was unbareable at some points, espeacily when we couldnt have the air con on other wise we wouldnt have enough petrol to get us to the next stop thats starting off with a full tank!! the distances between each place where mad, with nothing just wide open space.)tennant creek, devils marbles ( we lost the photos from here, of masive rock formations, big boulders standing one on top of the over, an amazing sight) ti tree (again just a road house) then alice springs, what a drive, but it didnt stop there we still had another 4 hours driving before we made it to uluru (ayers rock) what a magical rock so powerfull, we meet a couple there too, the were lovely, nice to chat to some one else about our experances and theres, we traveled to kings cayon together then they went there way and we went ours, we traveled back to alice springs to drop off our camper van, if felt like a part of us, even after traveling 3912.5 miles in it we still could of done a couple more, what a brlliant, magical, mind opening experance. next we fly to sydney and a wait our cruise............................. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://niccisykes.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!55E82F1DFBA2F367!162.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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