• Journey to Port Douglas

    • Oct 22nd 2008 Journey to Port Douglas Chantelle, Reid & I caught our early morning flight from Brisbane to Cairns which is at the north end of the country and the state of Queensland.  Our flight arrived late and then took it's time unloading the luggage.  Chantelle & Reid got theirs pretty quickly and I was [...]

  • Noosa and a National Park in Queensland

    • October 21st 2008 Noosa and a National Park two hours north of Brisbane. Today we checked out of our uber swanky hotel in Hervey Bay and made our way back to Brisbane.  On our way we stopped in at a townhouse on the beach that Reid's parents own in a town called Noosa.  It's about halfway between Hervey Bay and Brisb[...]

  • Fraser Island - Queensland, Australia

    • October 20th 2008 Fraser Island - Queensland, Australia Today we went on a day tour from Hervey Bay to Fraser Island.  It is an island located along the southern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately 300 km north of Brisbane. Its length is about 120 km with an average width of 15km. It was inscribed as a Worl[...]

  • AC/DC new album is in my hands

    • Lucky lucky me!!  I am the proud owner of AC/DC's newest album "Black Ice".  It was recorded in Vancouver,BC but I had to travel all the way to Australia to purchase just days before it's north american release.  I was walking through the Melbourne airport on route to my gate for my flight to Sydney on October 17th and[...]

  • Road trip to Hervey Bay

    • Oct 19th 2008 Road trip to Hervey Bay Hervey Bay (sounds like Harvey Bay) is a four hour drive north of Brisbane.  We drove up in Chantelle & Reids new car.  We stopped at this place along the highway that makes awesome milkshakes.  I had a vanilla one which was super tastey. We arrived in Hervey Bay to our hote[...]