Unofficial Tex Murphy

Oh where's your spirit of adventure?!

joliet_jane wrote:Heck yeah, going to the beach in Australia would be so cool! I want go th--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus
http://community.livejournal.com/wtf_nature/84035.html

Carnivorous worms... Tiny octopi with incurable venom... You know what? I think I'd just stay inland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasi ... web_spider

OK, I'm staying home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider
I want to live in a Ziploc bag now

You think those are bad... you also have to watch out for Drop Bears!

-Cub. =o)

Norway. Hmm. We have... I dunno. The occasional bee? A wasp now and then? Some mosquitos in the summer...

During winter we have like... hmm... I dunno, the ploughmobile? Oh and snow, of course.

If you really want to venture out into nature we have this snake thingy that's so common it's hardly deadly unless you spend a week getting to the hospital.

Oh okay then... We also have three bears or something, and about ten wolves. But good luck finding them.

Some times I really like living here.

Oh, and did I mention the world's most lovely girls live here?

-Fred

Fred Buer wrote: Oh, and did I mention the world's most lovely girls live here?

-Fred

Ah ha! So you DO have the most dangerous creatures of all!

-Cub. =o)

Somehow I can picture Steve Irwin, bless the lovely fool, doing a special episode in the middle of Sydney.

"Today I brought you to a shopping center to observe and capture the most dangerous creature of them all in their natural habitat; An actual, live, woman!"

"By crikey, she's a beauty!"

Miss the crazy fella.

-Fred

New South Wales:

City of Sydney: Harbour Bridge, Opera House, IMAX theatre, Darling Harbour
Hunter Valley (a must for the appreciators of fine wine and food)
Blue Mountains (and the Jenolan caves!!)
Kangaroo Valley (some of the most tranquil rolling landscapes you will see)
Parkes (largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere if you want to see where the moon landing was broadcast from)
Last but not least: Me! (I can help tour you around Sydney if you like, I've done it many times before and I love it!)

Queensland:

Sunshine Coast (what else can I say)
Surfer's Paradise (self explanatory)
Cairns (of course)
Byron Bay (bring your weed, and incense)
Great Barrier Reef (a MUST)
...and if you make it to the Whitsunday islands try and visit Hamilton and Hayman Islands

Victoria:

Catch a match of Australian Rules football at the MCG... let me know closer to the date and I will let you know when the big games are).

Well, firstly ... our trip is not going to Victoria or anywhere south of Sydney according to our plan. Our trip is going to be as follows:

We start in Sydney where we will be for a few days. From there we lease a car for 14 days where our plan so far is to go to the Blue Mountains, Hunter Valley and otherwise up the East Coast to Brisbane. From there we will go to Fraser Island and then return to Brisbane where we will "drop off" the car, fly to Alice Springs for a 4-day trip to Ayer's Rock, The Ulgas and Kings Canyon. Afterwards we will fly to Cairns where we will stay at a great resort in Palm Cove for 5 days until we via Sydney will fly back to Europe.

So as it looks right now - Victoria and the Canberra-area is out of the question, but the other things sound nice. And perhaps if there are any other nice things along the route, it would be great to hear about that

As for our stay in Sydney, we have yet to find a place to stay, but we were just thinking of something cheap close to the center, as we will most likely be out most of the day and only "use" our room when we need to sleep. Got any ideas there?

/// NetRoam