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Beach Club Trip to Sorrento
In February, I figured that if I join the Beach Club, it would not only mean a chance surf and party a few times, but also to travel to different places and learn things. This past weekend we travelled...
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Deakin Masters Challenge
Waking up at 630am to pouring rain is not how you would want to start a day of sailing, but that was the scene this morning. Some guys from school organized a regatta as a school project so we...
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Yacht Racing and Footy Weekend
I didn't stray too far from home again this weekend. Since the Deakin Masters Challenge last Sunday, I have been in touch with a guy at the Royal Brighton Yacht Club who has been keeping me informed...
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Beach Club Trip to Philip Island
Another classic beach club trip is over. They have all been so good I can't really even rank them from best to worst. This time we were in Philip Island where I have been before. We had a house rented...
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I leave for the airport in 45 minutes, I havent packed, I don't know where I'm going when I get there but I am, of course, absolutely confident.Weather forecast looks fantastic, the water will be warm....
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Queensland Part 1: Brisbane to Fraser Island
The past 2.5 weeks were full of ego-boosting good fortune. Everything came together as good or better than I could have hoped.Niclas drove me to the airport for the 2 hour flight north to Brisbane. It...
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Queensland Part 2: The Road to Airlie Beach
The drive from Rainbow Beach to Airlie Beach (the jump off point for the Whitsundays) is about 12 hours I think. Fortuneately, I met a Paul on the Fraser Island trip and he agreed to take me and 2...
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Queensland Part 3: Airlie Beach and the Whitsundays
Before arriving in Airlie Beach, I called to reconfirm my spot on the sailboat for Monday. I was told that the boat had been out of the water for the past 2 weeks getting repaired so I was kind of...
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Queensland Part 4: Cairns and Great Barrier Reef
After the sailing trip there was an after party that included lots of dancing on tables among other things. This is where I had to work my magic and score a ride north again. I was introduced to an...
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Queensland Part 5: Afterthoughts
Travelling this chunk of Australia has been heaps of fun. It was relatively easy to do with only one road going north and south. The majority of travellers hit up the same area, such as Fraser Island...
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Central Australia Part 1: Melbourne to Yulara
I finally have a chance to jot down a little something about the Central Australia trip. So much was seen and done over the 12 days that this is almost difficult, but I'll try and give it a good run...
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Central Australia Part 2: The Olgas and Uluru
After some good times at the little bar in a resort nearby, we went to visit the Olgas. This geological formation was so impressive that it is weird to think that more people don't know about it. I...
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Central Australia Part 3: Kings Canyon and Alice Springs
Now that the big items on the list of things to see had been checked off, we headed to ends of other roads in the desert. The next 2 nights were spent in Watarrka National Park where Kings Canyon is...
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New Semester Antics
Now that I had seen so much of Australia, I was almost at a loss of what to do for the last week we had off before classes resumed. The day after we got back from Central Australia, the new roommates...
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Mt. Buller Ski Trip
The student association has been putting on trips that I have gone on in the past and this one was a ski trip to Mt Buller, about 3 hours north of Melbourne. I thought it would be such a novel idea to...
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Beach Club Trip to Queenscliff
Last week I was skiing in mountains north of Melbourne, and this past weekend was the first Beach Club trip of the term to Queenscliff about an hour from Melbourne. I guess Victoria can be compared to...
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The Great Ocean Road
Last week I went to a wildlife park which wasn't too thrilling but I got my picture taken with a wombat and a koala.This past weekend I went on one of the big trips I have been waiting for since I got...
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Beach Club Trip to Apollo Bay
Another stereotypical Beach Club trip is in the books and this one was to the most gorgeous destination yet: Apollo Bay on the Great Ocean Road where the hills of the Otway National Park meet the...
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"Canberra - The Nations Capital"
I have to confess that the title to this post isn't very original; it is the slogan on the all the licence plates in Australian Capital Territory, just like one of my first posts "Victoria - The Place...
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Sydney: Part 1 - Mountains and City
We left Canberra at about 2:30pm for the relatively short drive over to Sydney. The drive happened to work out really well seeing as we didn't have a map. We followed the signs right to the city and...
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Sydney: Part 2 - Harbour and Beach
Originally we had the plan to have a spare day to do whatever else might happen to arise. It turned out that we had seen so little of the city the day before that we set off walking the city again. It...
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Beach Club Trip to Wilsons Promontory
My 6th and final Beach Club trip is finnished. A lot has changed since the first trip to Torquay but the fun level has only gone up.The destination this time around was Wilsons Promontory, a peninsula...
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Conquering Mt. Kosciuszko: Part 1 - Getting There
Reaching the highest point in Australia, Mt. Kosciuszko, was high on my list of things to do, and time and money was running out. We had a week long study break and I had Tara fully committed so the...
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Conquering Mt. Kosciuszko: Part 2 - Bagging the Summit
There was a sense that we were a bit behind schedule as we pulled up to Charlotte Pass, where we parked the car. This is the highest point you can drive to in Australia at an elevation of 1830m. (If...
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Quick Notes on 'Study' Week
As is the norm, we had a week off to study for exams after classes. Usually not much studying is done during this week (took off to Queensland last semester), and being on an exchange was twice the...
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