Blog posts for Australia

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All the different animals

by lissy - 15th Dec 2014

When we were in Australia, we saw loads of different types of animals. We saw koalas, and one was called tinkerbell. And we saw kangaroos, and we feeded them. ...

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Holding Koalas, feeding kangaroos and deadly snakes!!!!

by freya - 14th Dec 2014

On Monday, we went to the Billabong Koala sanctuary in Townsville, it was one of the best days I have had so far on our trip. Because Lissy absolutely loves ...

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Australian outback cowboy school

by adam - 14th Dec 2014

Australian outback cowboys

A couple of days ago we went to kroombit park, in the Australian outback and the staff tought us how to be cowboys.

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Elissa first blog- dictated verbatim

by lissy - 14th Dec 2014

Elissa first blog, dictated exactly.

Hello everyone, this is Elissa and this is my first blog.

At the moment I am sat on a plane to ...

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Hervey Bay and Fraser Island

by sam - 13th Dec 2014

About 400km from the outback station is our next pit stop, Hervey Bay. We are staying 2 nights in a place called Sanctuary Lakes and have a nice spacious ...

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Kroombit Outback Cattle Station

by sam - 12th Dec 2014

We spent yesterday, last night and today until lunchtime in an outback cattle ranch in the Kroombit National Park. The farm we stayed at is 10,000 acres of ...

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Townsville, Whitsunday Islands and beyond!

by sam - 9th Dec 2014

We've been staying in Airlie beach for the two last nights, in a petite cabin with non-working wifi, (why is wifi that doesn't work so much more annoying than ...

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Cairns to Townsville

by sam - 7th Dec 2014

What a lovely chilled day. We had a bit of lie in and had our free pancakes for breakfast at our hostel in Cairns then got packed up and left. We are ...

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Sydney to Cairns

by sam - 6th Dec 2014

Early start this morning to catch our 9am flight to Cairns, and drop back an hour in time this time. All very smooth and easy, and loved our Tiger aeroplane! ...

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Blue Mountains

by sam - 5th Dec 2014

The Blue Mountains is a huge mountain range outside of Sydney. We got the train today from Sydney, 100km to Katoomba to visit the Three Sisters and the ...

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G'day Mate

by sam - 4th Dec 2014

We landed in Sydney at 7.50 this morning. We have jumped forward a further 4 hrs, so are now 11hrs ahead of GMT, but amazingly the kids still don't seem to ...

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