Australia ’06

Day 13: On the way to Cape Tribulation

June 25, 2006

This morning we woke up pretty early, about 7:15am. We planned on traveling a long distance today, from Townsville to Cape Tribulation. This meant traveling about 6 hours north. We ate peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches for breakfast, and while I was preparing them I noticed something interesting. I looked down at the bag [...]

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Day 12 Magnetic Island

June 24, 2006

Townsville from the ferry This morning we took it easy and tried to figure out what were were going to do today and the rest of the trip. We finally made it out to Magnetic Island which was a 25 minute trip each way ($25 return/person). The ferry was a medium sized boat that carried [...]

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Day 10 Townsville

June 23, 2006

This morning we were abruptly awoken by some serious wave action. Our stuff went flying through the air at one point, and I starting feeling very nauseous. We both got up pretty quickly, and headed to the muster station at the back of the boat. There we met others who were awoken and we found [...]

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Day 9 Great Barrier Reef! YAHOO

June 22, 2006

Last night we spent the night around the same beach that we snorkeled in yesterday. Overall it was a pretty good night, except the wind was really loud this morning. We must be getting used to the rocking because neither of us feel sea sick any more! This morning, we stayed at the same place [...]

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Day 8, Whitsunday Is. Pt. 2

June 21, 2006

This morning our boat took us to Whitsunday Island, Whitehaven beach. On the way I saw a giant ray in the water that looked like it was about a meter across. Anyways….This beach has sand that is almost entirely made up of silica, and is almost perfectly white. It is about 6 km long of [...]

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Day 8 Whitsunday Is.

June 21, 2006

Last night we boarded the Anaconda 3 sailboat, to go sailing around the Whitsunday Islands. We sailed for the only time at night, and the waves were huge! I think nearly all of the 22 passengers were sea sick. We all had difficulties walking around and the crew members although kind and making sure we [...]

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Day 7, Airlie Beach/Whitsunday Is.

June 20, 2006

We spent another day driving a long distance, all of course in the pouring rain! We even had one of our windshield wipers stop working on us! Fortunately, it wasn’t the drivers wiper, and there was a truck stop only a couple of KM away. We pulled in and a kind bus driver helped us [...]

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Day 6 Rockhampton

June 19, 2006

We have been driving for a long time today. We left Coolum Beach at around 8am and stopped in Rockhampton at around 2:30pm. The drive was pretty uneventful since most of the landscape is flat with cows. There wasn’t much traffic either which made the trip nice. We have decided to push north until the [...]

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