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A stunning proposal
Coming into our 30's, everyone around us was having babies. It was now or never to do the trip of a lifetime. Fly to Perth, hire an Apollo Camper and tour the Western Australian coast. We made it to Esperance for Christmas day on the beach. Then through Albany, Denmark, Cape Leeuwin, Yallingup & Margaret River to Busselton for New Years Eve. Next stop Sandy Cape (just north of Jurien Bay) & on to Ningaloo Reef, Exmouth. We were getting very used to being able to pull up where ever we wanted and having awesome views from our dinner table/bed/toilet!!
After spending 4 nights on the Exmouth Cape we started heading south again; here's the best bit, Coral Bay. At our caravan park we met a guy called Rick. Great guy who offered to take us fishing in his tinny. Awesome, caught 3......2 & half mackerel.
I was keen to see the turtles at sunset so without telling me, Rick and Nick (my partner), sussed out a spot on a cliff top to take a photo.....so I'm on the edge of a cliff, sunset to the left of me, thunderstorm to the right and Nick on one knee in front of me proposing!! It caught me completely by surprise and I of course said yes! How many people are able to catch a photo of this moment? .....Magic!
The rest of our trip was just as great. Stopping where ever we wanted in our Apollo bus...Monkey Mia, Kalbarri, Swan River. Beautiful. Throughout this trip we encountered Carnarvon floods (twice), Pemberton fire, Lake Clifton fire and the threat of Cyclone Vince but the flexibility of our Euro Tourer meant we weren't locked into accommodation. Thankyou to the outstanding team of Apollo people, especially Perth depot for making it all possible. What better way to start a new life together?!
Shelley Carman
I do realise that I said I would not go down this path again, and that my travel blog was a fun reminder of my time living overseas, and that I just was not doing anything interesting or getting myself into as much trouble anymore, so there was no point. However, based both around the hilarity of my last trip, and an offer too good to refuse around potentially winning something for showing people what ridiculous situations I get myself into, I figured one last trip to the circus was in order. So thank you, Cheapa Campa (www.cheapacampa.com.au), for encouraging me to once again show what a muppet I can be.
Angela Keelan & Jessica Berriman | read more »
John Leach
Leach Leyland Outback Adventure - Uluru to Darwin Sept 2010.
Going nowhere slowly
What better way to escape the madding crowd than to head up the East Coast of Australia for two weeks? In a choose-you-own-adventure, we did just that: grabbed our board-shorts and sunscreen, hired a spunky Hippie camper and set off on the 1600kms from Brisbane to Cairns
We chose a Hippie camper as the most cost effectively package of essentials needed to ensure a trip of pure sun soaked hedonism: a fridge to chill the beers, air con to help the sea-breeze, a sound system to raise eyebrows and a back seat kitchen and double bed. Yes, it's possible to be hippie these days without forgoing life's modern luxuries...
Nicholas Milne
Posting from the morning after our first night in the camparvan.
- our camper is a custom toyota hiace, from 2007 - a really beautiful car.
- the dude at the rentals was a great salesman: he talked us into taking the full insurance, although we planned initially to take no insurance at all. His main argument: there is no compulsory insurance in NZ, about 30% of drivers are driving uninsured, if I get into an accident with them, I pay, even if it wasn't my fault.
- it seems that the majority of tourists take campers in Auckland and drive South to Christchurch - just as we did. We could have gotten a MUCH better deal if chose the same route in the opposite direction... Heaps of vans need to be taken back up North.
- the country is beautiful, and everything is super camper-friendly. Many campsites with top class facilities, great signposting, good rest areas with toilets and showers, local attractions inviting motorists in on the roadside everywhere.
NZ certainly lives up to its great reputation so far, and the campervan life is fantastic... Going to be a nice 4 weeks :)
Gyula Simonyi | read more »
Oppermann Thi Minh
Arches National Park (Utah)
USA
Jullie hadden nog wat foto's van ons tegoed van Sydney, dus hier zijn de beelden van de allerlaatste dagen. Op het moment van schrijven vliegen we via Turkije het Europese luchtruim weer binnen. Als dit online staat zijn we na bijna 24 lange uren vliegen en vermoedelijk een nacht slapen, weer terug in Amsterdam.
Sydney is, net als Melbourne, een gigantische stad met 4,5 miljoen inwoners. Dus, ook net als in Melbourne, hebben we maar wat plekken uitgekozen om een paar uur doorheen te slenteren. We sloten de reis nog af met een poging tot inbraak in onze kamer in het guesthouse waar we overnachtten in Sydney. Om half 4 werden we wakker van geluid en stak er al een arm half door het raam naar binnen. Halfslapend deden we het gordijn open en de dieven waren zo mogelijk nog verbaasder iemand te zien aan de andere kant van het raam dan dat wij dat waren. Een mooie laatste nacht om onze reis mee af te sluiten...
David Krijgsman | read more »
On saturday we left the caravan park pretty early because we wanted to get to Bundaberg in time. Before we left Agnes Water Laura bought some postcards again. While Alex tried to keep everything under control on seriously one of the worst roads in Australia, Laura finished up all the missing blog entries, so we could update our blog that day. The only other thing we came across besides millions of pottholes were once again a lot of creeks with creative names like 1, 2 or 6 mile creek:) When we got to Bundaberg the first thing in our mind was a maccas which wasnt hard to find either. You always know when theres a KFC and a Hungry Jacks a Mc Donalds can not be far:) We spent some time at maccas as there were about 6 blog entries including photos to be uploaded. After we savoured our now traditional Mc Flurry we hurried to the rum distillery to make the 2pm tour. It went for about 1.5 hours and the probably funniest tourguides we have had so far (…hardly surprising in a rum distillery;) explained us all the interesting facts to know about Bundy rum. Included in the tour was also a tasting, so Laura tried the Liquor thats only sold right there.
Alex Krasinsky | read more »
Lu Carlone & Elaine Carlone
Travelling from Broome to Darwin via the Gibb River Road in 4WD Apollo Camper.
Hans Borghs
A nice sunset at Lake McGregor (New Zealand - 17/01/2011)
Australia
On the last morning and exactly on time (8am) there was a taxi waiting to take us from the hotel to the airport. We arrived at the checkin a bit early, so we sat around a bit to wait, after all there was a long day ahead of us! 29 hours of travel with a stop in Singapore.
On our way back we flew along with the time (from east to west), so we got a very long day followed by a long night. For us it felt like midnight when we arrived at Singapore, but the sun was still shining brightly. We walked a bit around the terminal's Butterfly Garden, sat on a relaxing chair and napped a little. It was dark by the time we got on the next plane for the long night, where we fell asleep almost immediately.
It was an awesome journey, and we got everything as good as we might have hoped for. The weather was lovely, most days around 18-25 degree and loads of blue sky and sunshine. In addition, in this time of year everything is nice and green, except where there was still snow on the mountains, which we thought was one of the nicest things about New Zealand.
Ilonka Maathuis | read more »
Kyle Hodgdon
Two Americans discovering the Australian coast via Hippie Camper.
Lesley van Loo
Kea flying of our Hippie camper
New Zealand
Phil & Loretta Bingemann
Camped on edge of extinct volcano at Eungella National Park, West of Mackay Qld. Great location, excellent company and a good wine
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