With our PADI diving licences still fresh in our pockets we arrive in Ayr after a night out in Airlie beach. We hope to dive the Yongala wreck which is reputed as one of the top 10 dives in the world. We camp outside the dive centre and get up about 7:30am to check in. [...]

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Aboard Matador for our 2 day 2 night sailing adventure, we were introduced to the members of 4 crew and the boat together with some of it’s racing history in which it won 2 championships which we figure was a fair while ago due to the outside looking fairly new but the inside looking rather [...]

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Well.
The Plan
Leave Bundaberg at 6PM, Mike to drive the first 350 odd KMs, followed by John and then me the rest; we would arrive in Airlie Beach between 4-5AM have some sleep and then at 12PM head out to sea on Freight Train, part of the the Oz Sail fleet of maxi’s. Enjoy Sun, Sea… [...]

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Hervey bay is the our port of departure to arrival at the natural beauty of Fraser Island. This 3 day trip is a self guided driving tour with other random people. We basically got a 4×4 van with all the necessary camping equipment and a group was allocated to it. We attended a briefing before [...]

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I thought Bundaberg would be just another town we just happened to pass through where there are loads of small, quiet independent shops to serve the local community. But I was wrong.
Bundaberg is famous for many things and surprisingly kept us busy during our time there. The main reason for our stop in Bundaberg was [...]

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We left Byron Bay the night before and parked in a street near to a hostel we thought we could get a free shower the following day, but we were out of luck. Instead we drove closer to the city centre near a YHA, a guaranteed free shower we thought, but security was good and [...]

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Bryon bay is known very well for its surfing. So this was the ideal place for us to take a surf lesson and brush up our skills. We had a great time, however the conditions were not the best to learn in. Apart from surfing, we went to the most Easterly point and visited the [...]

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We get to Port Macquarie late at night and find a nice spot in Town Beach car park to sleep in. We get up at about 8 am and go for a morning swim in the sea to revitalise and then had some breakfast on the beach. We haven’t started up Sandy since the battery [...]

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It’s road trip time in our van Sandy which we bought only a few days ago. We take it for a drive for the first time to the King’s Cross area to see Kev off as he is leaving us for 3 weeks to see the east coast of Australia with Anna. We say our [...]

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Having spent Christmas and New Year in Sydney, we didn’t only do alot of drinking, partying and sleeping on the beach - we also did some sightseeing in between as decribed in my earlier post. Most of our days started at a leisurely 12-1pm oweing to the fact we didn’t come in until around 4 [...]

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