Big 4 Fraser Resort,
Australian word of the day: Dummy – a baby’s pacifier. “Don’t lose your dummy†means don’t lose your temper and can be used for adults as well.
2007 10 12 – Big Trip – Day 164 – Australia – Fraser Island
October 15th, 20072007 10 10 – Big Trip – Day 162 – Australia – Capricorn Coast
October 15th, 2007Big 4 Fraser Resort,
The last 2 days were nothing very special. We continued driving south along what is called the
2007 10 08 – Big Trip – Day 160 – Australia – Platypus
October 15th, 2007Cool Waters Campground,
Australian word of the day: Stubby – a beer bottle. As in: I’ll have one.
The last few days we have covered a great amount of distance driving south. We left Townsville on Friday morning and got stuck in a 3 hour traffic holdup. The highway was blocked due to a timber truck overturned on the road. Thank goodness for a motorhome in such a situation. The kids watched a movie and played while we were waiting. Read the rest of this entry »
2007 10 04 – Big Trip – Day 157 – Australia – Wildlife, Almost
October 6th, 2007Australian word of the day: Nappies – Diapers. As in: Hope we won’t run out of nappies for Shir and Orr today on
We spent the last two days learning more and more about Australian wildlife. Yesterday we visited the Billabong Sanctuary, a great Aussie zoo a few km south of town. The main attractions were crocodile feedings, koala petting, cassowary feeding, fish feeding, dingo feeding etc…We passed from one guided feeding to another, and tried to pick up as much of the explanations as we could despite heavy local accents and rugby jokes.
Here are some interesting Koala facts – they sleep 18 hours a day Read the rest of this entry »
2007 10 02 – Big Trip – Day 155 – Australia – Ramblin’ South
October 6th, 2007Big4 Campground,
Australian word of the day: How’re You Going? – How are you? Asked without really expecting an answer.
After reaching the northern apex of our Australian voyage in
2007 09 28 – Big Trip – Day 151 – Australia – Cape Tribulation
October 2nd, 2007Australian word of the day: No Worries – You’re welcome.
Yesterday was a relaxing day with no movement. We went to the beach and played around with the kids. At noon, just before naptime we spotted a giant lizard near our RV. It is at least 1 meter long and has a huge snakelike tongue. I didn’t know what it’s called, but it was very cool to see. Other than the lizard, we saw various types of birds flying around. The celeb bird in these parts though is the cassowary, a large flightless bird the size of an ostrich but much weirder looking. Read the rest of this entry »
2007 09 26 – Big Trip – Day 149 – Australia – First Day with our New Motorhome
October 2nd, 2007Australian word of the day: Sullage – Sewer. As in, sorry, we don’t have sullage here. You’ll have to go south to Mossman to dump your toilet water.
Happy Sukkot!
Today marked many changes in our trip. In the morning we were sad to bid farewell to Alfredo and Raquel, after spending the last two weeks together. At 8am the taxi came to take them to the airport, on their way to
Later in the morning I took a taxi as well, to the motorhome depot in
2007 09 25 – Big Trip – Day 148 – Australia – Busy week in the Cairns Area
September 29th, 2007Water’s edge Apartments,
Australian word of the day: Breaky – Breakfast
It’s been a week since the last posting. So much action going on here. I’ll give you a brief rundown. On Thursday, we spent a few hours at
2007 09 18 – Big Trip – Day 141 – Australia – Atherton Tableland
September 29th, 2007Water’s edge Apartments,
We had a good night’s sleep and a relatively calm morning yesterday before heading off to explore
2007 09 17 – Big Trip – Day 139 – Australia – Cairns
September 29th, 2007Water’s edge Apartments,
Australian word of the day: Pram – a baby stroller. We discovered this word when we were told we couldn’t gate check our pram but rather had to check it in with all the luggage, meaning walking through Sydney airport with all three kids loose…
What a long hectic day of travel. We got up at 4am for a 7am flight from