Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everybody!!!

Good luck, health, happiness should be with you!!! We hope you are celebrating the change of the year duly.  Where are you going to be on New Year’s Eve? Are you going out with your partner? Are you staying at home with your family? Are you travelling?

2012 will be a new start so if there is anything you want to change New Year is a good opportunity to start. What’s about for example getting your hair cut? Or changing the color of your room? Even little changes can make you more comfortable make you life more interesting exciting. Write a piece of paper what you want to change during the next year or what you want to do and keep it somewhere. In the end of the year you can see which of your dreams have come true.

So all in all have a good start and enjoy as much as possible.

Christmas

Christmas is over…

It is all over so fast and you have to wait for it one year again…

How did you spend your Christmas this year? Have you been visiting your family at the coast or on a property? Has your family been at your place? When did you open the presents what kind of lunch or tea did you have?

We had a really nice Christmas in the real Outback. We did not start until 10 o’clock in the morning because we wanted to sleep in and to get ready with our lunch preparation. So at 10 o’clock everybody came to open the presents which were placed under the Christmas tree.

It was absolutely unbelievable how many presents there were. When we finished opening all the gifts everybody had a look around to see what the others got. Afterwards the big feed startedJ. With cheese platter, fruit platter, chips and bikkies, nuts and dried fruits, until the real lunch was ready. During lunch a little food fight with jellies and nuts was started and you could hear bangs everywhere because the Christmas bonbons were opened. After lunch dessert was prepared together to enjoy it afterwards. The day ended with nice chats and satisfaction.

So how did you spend your Christmas?

Latest Update about the last Tour

Just some pictures of our wonderful sandboarding experiences on Tour!!

 

Two Swedish boy's on Tour

Sunday morning 8 o’clock in the headquarter office of Out the Back Australia. The two Swedish Backpackers enjoyed a big cooked breakfast with rissoles, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, bacon and toasted bread. After the finished their morning ritual (which took about an hour, we could never imagine that boys need that long in the bathroom). 

When they finally reached the car it was time to head to Rocky station. After an hour drive we arrived at Rocky where Chris and Mike Webster welcomed us on the entrance to the wallaby walk. Leading us through the Walk and telling us all interesting stories about their property and the attractions along the walk. The hollowed tree was one of them. Mike used to play there when he was a kid and amazingly the tree is still alive. Another attraction was an old wool washer. Niklas could not imagine how somebody can build something like that.

After we went back to the start of the walk, Mike showed us how to cross the 70m ling free-swinging footbridge with a motorbike. It was absolutely spectacular. When we crossed the bridge we were even more amazed how he can cross the bridge with his motorbike. Klas said he would never do something like that.

At their nice house we enjoyed a wonderful morning tea in the winter garden. Scones, cake, fruits, sandwiches, tea, coffee and everything else you could imagine. Talking about living on a property like that which can be flooded for 18 month so that you have to go a long way to get your groceries and gear over to your house which is build on the other side of the river, we enjoyed the time at Rocky.

Interested in the second part of the day??? Continue reading tomorrow!!

On Tour again.

On Friday evening we started a Backpacker Tour once again. This time our nice tourists were Niklas and Klaas from Sweden.

After a welcome-dinner, they spend their first night at the Caravan Park in a huge tent. The next morning they started with breakfast before they went kayaking on the Warrego River, which both of them really enjoyed.

It was quite a good workout, paddling for 4 hours and just stopping for lunch on a riverbank and a refreshing swim in the river.

In the afternoon, we headed to Charlotte Plains, which is always a bit of a highlight on such tours. Niklas and Klaas have never been out on such a huge property before and neither out in the bush. So they enjoyed it.

We went to the shearing sheds, were Peieta told us a lot about sheep shearing and the history of the shed. The next sight was Jack's Hut and the camel waggons.

Then we finally went to the artesian bores. On our way we've seen a lot of wildlife - kangaroos, emus and even camels. That was great for our two german interns as well. They had been to Charlotte Plains the third time now, but never seen one of the camels before, so Saturday was their lucky day :)

Eating cheese, chips and biscuits with dips, everybody enjoyed the landscape. A swim in the bore made the evening even better. We enjoyed the sunset and a wonderful dinner cooked by Larissa which were veggies and a potato bake and nobody missed the meat, because it tasted delicious and nothing could make it better.

It was afunny day with a lot of things to see and do and in the evening everybody was tired, but Niklas and Klaas decided to go out anyways. So they went to the Billabong Pub where they had more than a few nice chats with the locals.

If you want to know what happens on Sunday - then you have to read our blog tomorrow!

Bus Trip

Today is another exciting day again.

This night there will be two backpackers from Sweden, arriving on the bus from Toowoomba. Their journey started already at 6:30am this morning, when they had to leave Brisbane via Greyhound. The earliest bird catches the worm. That’s it! They are catching a fabulous adventure here in Cunnamulla. At Toowoomba they have to change the bus and hop on Coach Queensland. They should be enjoying their bus trip to Cunnamulla right now. Lunch break will be in about two hours. Magnificent wildlife and heaps of Outback landscape  can be spotted during the bus trip. With the biggest population of kangaroos this area is really famous here in Queensland. If you get bored during the bus trip there will be some entertainment on the two screens in the bus. Various movies from comedy, to horror, fantasy and more will be shown.

Relax and sit back and enjoy this long bus trip. We are looking forward to see the two Fellas arriving today at 7:45pm here in Cunnamulla.

Do you remember your last bus trip? Where have you been traveling to?