Category: Australia

As usual when reaching a city on my Poste Restante list, my first task on 17th April was to head to the main post office in Perth, to see if there was any mail. This …

When I woke up on the bus on 15th April, we were still speeding across exactly the same flat reddish arid plains that we had been for far too long to remember. The only thing …

After the record breaking descent of Uluru, I slept rather well, but woke with sore legs. After breakfast on 13th April, Anneliese and I went on an opal mine tour. The first mine was in …

Buster’s bus was waiting at 7 am to take us all to the foot of Uluru. We looked up at it – the summit is 348 metres (1142 feet) above the level of the surrounding …

An early start, and a quick helping of pie from Jo, got me to the bus terminal in time to get on to the Greyhound bus bound for Uluru (Ayers Rock). At the wheel was …

After an early breakfast with Jo and Kate (from the Magnetic Island crowd) I went downstairs and found from where the the Greyhound bus for Mount Isa would soon be leaving . My right ear …

In the morning (6th April) I had been intending to go early to investigate the Omnimax cinema, the only one in the southern hemisphere, but was delayed when I got talking to a French girl …

Mark, the instructor, made us get up at the crack of dawn for our final pool training day (3rd April) – by 6:45 am we were at the dive centre. We were given some training …

I woke on 30th March still not having totally decided what to do. There were 3 choices: head north to Cairns (I had heard good things about Cairns), or head for nearby Magnetic Island (also …