Travel Blogs Oceania

One of the things, besides sky diving, that we always wanted to do was to do a bungy jump and when you're in Australia, Cairns is the best place to do so.

Before leaving for Australia I'd already searched for some bungy jump locations and Cairns turned out to be the only place! There are some bungy jump locations in Auckland and Queenstown, New Zealand but in Australia Cairns is the main adrenaline centre.

AJ Hackett is kind of like the founder of bungy jumping as an adrenaline sport and he was the man who has put bungy jumping on the world map. The AJ Hackett Bungy Jumping site...

From Airlie Beach we headed north to Townsville, Queenslands second largest settlement. We had a lot of expectations of Townsville but were a little dissapointed when we got there.

Townsville's main street, Flinders St Mall, turned out to be part of a reconstruction project and looked completely trashed. 60% of all the shops in the mall were closed for business, up for rent or completely...

A great little place on the Queensland coast is without a doubt Airlie Beach; great weather, cute shops, lots of fun activities, amazing day tours and good places to grap a bite.

We were happy to have finally arrived!

Airlie Beach has so much to offer for young people, it kind of felt like heaven on a dirt road holiday. There are a lot of internet cafes to book accomodation, arrange tours or plan activities.

We decided to go parasailing which turned out to be pretty relaxing. I'd never done it before and had a great time. The water is beautiful around Airlie...

Mackey is all about the huge Eungella National Park on its western hinterland and the numerous beaches just north of town.

The beaches north of Mackay can be devided in dog beaches and those where you're not allowed to take your dogs on the beach. Unfortunately we spotted dogs everywhere on the beaches and weren't that charmed by the way people just let them run around.

Especially...

The little towns of Agnes Water and Town 1770 are located between Hervey Bay and Rockhampton and are excellent for a stopover while your heading either north or south.

The closest town from the main highway would be Agnes Water and Town 1770 is at 7 k's from here. There's not a lot going on in these seaside surf towns but they do have some great stretches of deserted beach.

The...