I’m a bit of a wuss when it comes to heights so to be honest the Sydney Harbour Bridge was of absolutely no interest to me. Just looking at the promotional photos of people climbing across the top with big smiles on their faces was enough to flip my stomach. [...]
Before I went to Australia, and back in the day when I was obsessed with Home and Away, the main thing I wanted to do when I went Down Under was to try my hand at surfing. Despite going to the UK’s mini Australia Newquay and watching my friends do [...]
Riding the Ghan train from Adelaide to Darwin is one of the most boring experiences of my life. When I told my Aussie friend Jules I’d done it she found it hilarious. Apparently it’s what old people do and “no one has time for that anymore”. She was right. The [...]
It had been planned for months. Student day time TV had got me well into The Crocodile Hunter and I watched it every day while I was hanging out at my friend’s house in Bondi. I was so excited to potentially catch a glimpse of the big man in action. [...]
I had a crazy, hectic six weeks in Australia. After working my second summer at camp in America I decided it was time to relax with the kangaroos in the outback and the fit surfer dudes on Bondi, and travel around the country to see the friends I’d made at [...]
This is the final part of an article I wrote for my college paper a few years ago… Day one: Getting From Darwin to Cairns on a Tourbus… Day two: Crossing the Northern Territory… Day three… Early next morning it was on to Adels grove. The shower was a bucket, [...]
This is the second part of an article I wrote for my college paper a few years ago… Day one: Getting From Darwin to Cairns on a Tourbus… Day two… After chatting the night away our group awoke from a sleepy stupor to a cooked breakfast. A few tinnies the [...]
This is an article I wrote for my college paper a few years ago, I just found it and it’s actually pretty good! Unfolding before me was the Great Australian Outback. On my left, sun-drenched soil and the odd tree lined the path, on my right, the same. It stretched [...]