We're offSept 25 Sydney (Beahces)Sept 26 Sydney (walking tour)Sept 27 Flight to Brisbane28Sept SPACESHIPSept 29th KillarneySept 30th Killarney to Glen Innes1Oct Glenn Inns to Warren2Oct Warren to White Cliffs3Oct White Cliffs to Broken Hill4Oct Broken Hill to Flinders Rangers5Oct – Flinders RangersOct 6 – Flinders to Port Augusta7 Oct - Port Augusta to Coober Pedy7Oct - What have we learnt so far…7Oct - Next up8 Oct – Coober Pedy to Mt Ebenezer9 Oct Mt Ebenezer to Yulara10 Oct Ayers Rock to Alice Springs11 Oct Alice Springs to Tennant Creek.12 Oct Tennant Creek to CloncurryOct 13 Cloncurry to Karumba14 Oct Karumba to Ravenshoe15 Oct Ravenshoe to Yungaburra16 Oct Yungaburra to Cairns (Palm Cove)17 Oct Palm Cove to Port Douglas18 Oct Port Douglas to Newell Beach19 Oct Newell Beach to CairnsOct 20 Cairns to Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 21 Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 22 Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 23 Bingal Bay - InghamOct 24 Ingham - Home HillOct 25 Home Hill to ProserpineOct 26 Proserpine to RockhamptonOct 27 Rockhampton to 1770Oct 28 1770Oct 29 1770 to Bundaburg (Burnett Heads)Oct 30 Burnett Heads – Tin Can BayOct 31 TinCan Bay to Rainbow beachNov 1 Rainbow beach to CaloundraNov 2 Caloundra to Main armNov 3 Main arm to Byron BayNov 4 Byron Bay to WooliNov 5 WooliNov 6 Wolli to BerrimaBerrima to Eltham (Melbourne)Nov 8 - 22 Eltham (Melbourne)nov 23 Eltham to Ballaratnov 24 Ballarat to Mt GambierNov 25 Mt Gambier to PortlandNov 26 Portland to Port CampbellNov 27 Port Campbell to LorneNov 28 Lorne to JanJucNov 29 Jan Juc to CoolendinaDec 3 Coolendina to Ryenov 30 to Dec 2 Surf Coast
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We stuck together through the remainder of the security check points. As we were exiting the airport another Kapper was waiting with a sign for our new found friend. It was André Grzela! He has spent the past year in Australia also working, touring and obviously living the life. The four of us spend the rest of the day together dumbfounded by the coincidence. We checked into a hostel, Marc-André and I, with the help of Josh, the most awesome person ever found a rental van. Josh really went above and beyond the call of duty here, I simply went to ask him for a phone number and he ended up making a ridiculous amount of phone calls to find us the cheapest and best deal on a rental van. The company we ended up with not only matched the lowest quote we had received, they flew us to Brisbane to pick up the van! The van is far superior to all the others. It has a tent that attaches to the back hatch which makes for a less claustrophobic and cooler nights sleep. As if that wasn’t enough, they gave us their newest model and included free table and chairs! It’s not the dream VW van, but we are sooooo much better equipped than anything we could have bought. It’s even got a DVD player!
After confirming the van rental we met back up with the crew and we headed to the beach! Well first to a bottle shop (Beer Store) then to the beach. André, the seasoned Aussi had the good sense to burry the beer in the sand, it actually kept relatively cool. We walked from beach to beach until we arrived at André’s place where we met his roommate who was surprised and discouraged “You mean there are more of you?!” We ended up at the famous Bondi beach but it was too late for our grand plan of renting surf boards so we found a nice little restaurant, had dinner and headed back to the hostel.
This hostel was awesome, so clean and nice, it was the first hostel stay for both of us and it’s safe to say all other hostels will seem like run down, cockroach infested, bed bug ridded crap holes…
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