Tag: Queensland
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Droving in Queensland
By the time I reached Queensland for the second time, it was supposed to be a farewell trip. I had seen everything I had planned to see, gone everywhere I could go by train and my flight back to Munich was booked. The West Coast, with its lack of infrastructure and seemingly (to a female…
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Back to Fraser
After a year in Australia, people invariably ask me which place I liked best and whilst it’s not easy to settle on a definite favourite, Fraser Island is at the very least a strong contender for “Personal Happy Place 2013.” After our first visit to Fraser Island, I was sad to leave, but when the…
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Townsville + Magnetic Island
Townsville is a hate-it-or-think-it’s-not-THAT-bad kind of place. I had heard horrible things, but totally came around to thinking it wasn’t all that bad (I have yet to meet anyone who thought Townsville was fantastic). With the lowest of expectations, I intended spending my time recuperating after a really long train journey (30-odd hours with just…
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Noosa and the Sunshine Coast
In between visits to Fraser Island, I spent a fair bit of time in Noosa. I didn’t DO a whole lot – Noosa isn’t really a doing stuff place – but I the things I did do, I wrote about already here: Things to do in Noosa and Free things to do in Noosa. It’s…
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Up Eli Creek Without a Paddle
Spend three weeks (give or take) on Fraser Island, and you start wondering… what’s does the other side of Lake McKenzie look like? How different is the scenery at the northern tip, beyond Indian Head? And how far up Eli Creek can you go? Everyone who visits Fraser Island strolls up the board walk and…
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Port Douglas
Six of us checked in to a beautiful three-bedroom holiday home in Port Douglas, 10 of us stayed for a week. After some complex calculations involving the number of nights slept in a bed, number of nights on floor or couch, number of days in a car per person, and individual travel budget restrictions, we…
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Cairns
Once we got to Cairns, north of the Tropic of Capricorn, I was well and truly out of my comfort zone. At 34°, it was hot and humid, and I was wilting. As is the case along most of the Queensland coast, swimming in the ocean is not a good idea, with sharks, crocodiles and…
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Airlie Beach
Our two days in Airlie Beach were made memorable mainly by the amazing group of people who coalesced there. It was as if all the silliest planets had aligned for a full goon party that ended up lasting over a week, taking us from Airlie to Cairns, Port Douglas and beyond. Barely an hour after…
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Fraser Island
Between Sydney and Brisbane, we had already joined what is essentially the backpacker highway, but we didn’t really get into the spirit until we hit Northern Queensland. If there is one must-do experience on the “highway” that every backpacker can agree on, it’s Fraser Island. It remains one of the best things we did on…
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Brisbane
As any non-Queenslander will be happy to inform you, Queensland is the Texas of Australia. In that case, Brisbane must be the Austin of Queensland. We were pleasantly surprised by the city and what it had to offer, as well as impressed with the ease of getting around. Between the free city bus loop, free…