Goodbye Manly.... Hello Manly...?
Um ya, So we left Manly, Sydney on Monday and our new hostel is in Manly, Brisbane... I guess they ran out of ideas for suburbs. All the good ones like woolloomoolloo and bundaburg were taken.
Anywho, Our Hostel in Brisbane is awesome!! Tis the best one yet. I can't upload any pics on this comp so if you want to check it out go here - http://www.moretonbaylodge.com.au/
They have lots of free stuff we can do, they even have a power boat, and a 9 foot projector screen with surround sound in the living room. We were going to go sailing today but it was too windy and none of the captains would take out inexperienced crew in the rough waters... So I guess that will have to wait for another day. The weather has been much better here, but the wind has been like 40kms/h everyday since we've been here. Oh ya, there are 7 other Canadians at our hostel, 2 Irish lads, 5 English chaps and 1 American... hahaha. We have all been picking on the american guy quite a bit, good times. Actually he left today... :P
Our last few days in Sydney were actually a lot of fun... The ferry rides from Manly back to sydney harbour were crazy!!! Because of the wind and rain for 5 days straight the sea was kicking up some huge ass waves!! They even closed the Ferries down because it was too dangerous for a while. We were getting thrown around pretty good, erynn didnt like part so much, but I was having a good time. I took video of it on the digi cam so you can see how much the boat was gettting thrown around - you can even hear the locals screaming and moaning too hahaha...
So ya after we recovered from that we wandered over to the Chineese gardens and the real China Town - that was pretty cool to see. We also found a HUGE market - called Paddy's Market. Anywho there was tons and tons of stuff there, from souveniers to clothes, shoes, even food. They had billabong hoodies for $15 and all the souveniers were half price than what we had checked out before... so we dropped a few coins there and lugged our haul back to manly. I dont know how we managed to fit everything in our packs after that - they were already bursting at the seems.
Alright, so our plan of action has changed... um, again. We were thinking since we are so close to the Great barrier reef we might as well get all that done now instead of backtracking in the winter time. So now we are planning on heading up to Townsville and see if we can find a flat and jobs and make that a home base for a few months and kindof explore the area around it - The Whitsunday islands, Fraser Island, Magnetic Island, the rainforrest and the Great barrier reef.
So thats what we are thinking right now, we are just looking for flights/bus/train prices to see what kind of a deal we can get and then go. Alright, I think thats about it for now... We'll upload some more pics we have once we can find a computer that will take it...
Cheers,
Nate & Erynn
Anywho, Our Hostel in Brisbane is awesome!! Tis the best one yet. I can't upload any pics on this comp so if you want to check it out go here - http://www.moretonbaylodge.com.au/
They have lots of free stuff we can do, they even have a power boat, and a 9 foot projector screen with surround sound in the living room. We were going to go sailing today but it was too windy and none of the captains would take out inexperienced crew in the rough waters... So I guess that will have to wait for another day. The weather has been much better here, but the wind has been like 40kms/h everyday since we've been here. Oh ya, there are 7 other Canadians at our hostel, 2 Irish lads, 5 English chaps and 1 American... hahaha. We have all been picking on the american guy quite a bit, good times. Actually he left today... :P
Our last few days in Sydney were actually a lot of fun... The ferry rides from Manly back to sydney harbour were crazy!!! Because of the wind and rain for 5 days straight the sea was kicking up some huge ass waves!! They even closed the Ferries down because it was too dangerous for a while. We were getting thrown around pretty good, erynn didnt like part so much, but I was having a good time. I took video of it on the digi cam so you can see how much the boat was gettting thrown around - you can even hear the locals screaming and moaning too hahaha...
So ya after we recovered from that we wandered over to the Chineese gardens and the real China Town - that was pretty cool to see. We also found a HUGE market - called Paddy's Market. Anywho there was tons and tons of stuff there, from souveniers to clothes, shoes, even food. They had billabong hoodies for $15 and all the souveniers were half price than what we had checked out before... so we dropped a few coins there and lugged our haul back to manly. I dont know how we managed to fit everything in our packs after that - they were already bursting at the seems.
Alright, so our plan of action has changed... um, again. We were thinking since we are so close to the Great barrier reef we might as well get all that done now instead of backtracking in the winter time. So now we are planning on heading up to Townsville and see if we can find a flat and jobs and make that a home base for a few months and kindof explore the area around it - The Whitsunday islands, Fraser Island, Magnetic Island, the rainforrest and the Great barrier reef.
So thats what we are thinking right now, we are just looking for flights/bus/train prices to see what kind of a deal we can get and then go. Alright, I think thats about it for now... We'll upload some more pics we have once we can find a computer that will take it...
Cheers,
Nate & Erynn
posted by Nathan at 9/13/2006 02:58:00 PM
5 Comments:
Hey Yo,
What kind of jobs.. is there lots in Townsville? What is the population? I wanna see the great barrier reef!!
later -k-
Hey kids! You've transferred the rainy weather to Saskamatoon, it's going to rain till sunday and possibly snow!! WTF!? How's the new hostel treatin' ya? Take care! linz&dan
You guys pickin up accents yet? Great pic with the roo and the footy. Like to see Nate get that back if the roo took a liking to it. Misty wants a koala!
mdw
Looks like you guys are having an awesome time, can't wait to hear more of your adventures! - Jen
It's a sad day when your blog starts to get spammed with advertisements... those bastards... -Stofer
Post a Comment
<< Home