All Over Australia - A Story from Ben Arends, Londerzeel, Belgium.
From Ben Arends in Londerzeel, Belgium - My
trip to Australia
From: Ben Arends A-Clean
I was lucky enough to have
lived in Australia in my youth but I was even more lucky to go back
there on holiday 30 years later in 1999. What a wonderfull trip it was.
We landed in Melbourne where we rented a very big comfortable motorhome
and our first destination was the most beautiful city of Australia -
It was there that I lived 30 years ago, and went to school - Adelaide!
We took the coastal road from Melbourne to Adelaide
and this was a fantastic experience! We even flew a helicopter over the
12 Apostles. In the 30 years that I was out of Adelaide not very much
was changed really! It was an emotional experience to see that the two
houses I lived in were still there!
We spent a couple of days in and around Adelaide and
then moved on! Adelaide was just a side track for us because I lived
there, in fact we wanted to go up to North Quensland. We drove through
Broken Hill, through New South Wales up to Queensland. We passed a lot
of towns and I never saw so many kangaroos in all the years I lived in
Australia than I did in the few days from Adelaide to Brisbane.
Brisbane was beautiful! Unfortunately we arrived
there on Anzac Day and everything was closed but we stayed a few days
and got the see all the interesting places. We travelled further up
north, staying only at Big 4 caravanparks with our motorhome.We
recommend them to everyone.Very clean amenities!
Everything you can imagine a tourist should see and
do in beautiful Queensland we did. It was fantastic: We visited Fraser
Island, the Whitsundays, We dived and snorkelled on the reef off
Cairns, we visited Daintree and took a river cruise and saw some huge
crocodiles!, we took the
Skyrail to Kuranda and came back by scenic railway, we saw
huge snakes in the wild, we went jet ski'ng, we rented four wheel
drives to get to places where you normally can't go,we went swimming in
the most clear waters and lay on the most beautiful beaches you can imagine.
We drove back down the coast and stayed a few days at
Surfers Paradise. Lots of cafes and discos there to taste some of the
great Australian beers. Then we moved on and stayed for 4 days in
Sydney. Of course we saw all the sights there as well! Unfortunately we
couldn't stay too long in Sydney because we had to turn in our
motorhome in Melbourne to catch our plane . But believe me: the drive
from Sydney to Melbourne was one of the most beautiful ones in
Australia: so green! I'll be back in 2000 to visit West Australia and
the Northern Territory, I promise. I've been to lots of places in the
world, but Australia is the highlight!!!!
Ben Arends
Londerzeel, Belgium
27/06/1999
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