HOT

It is getting hot!!!

This week it is over 40 degrees and you really have trouble not to sweat. Of course air-conditions are running everywhere, so you are hopping from one cool spot to the other. What are you doing to stay cool and to get away from the heat? Are you just sitting in front of your air condition at home watching TV? Or are you enjoying the heat outside sitting under a shady tree? Probably you are swimming in the pool or in the river?

These are all opportunities to stay cool and not to get a heatstroke. If you have to go outside during the hottest part of the day, that means around lunch time, wear a hat and lots of sunscreen. Drink always plenty of water before you leave the house and while you are staying in the heat!

If all these tips do not help you should maybe think about travelling to a cooler place? Holidays are still on so take your gear and head of!

What did you do??

We are sitting here in our air-conditioned office, freezing. So we are nice and cool if you want to join us, we also offer cold drinks!!

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.

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!!

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?

Exercise in Cunnamulla

Another Yoga lesson passed yesterday evening at 7pm at the youth club of Cunnamulla.

It was a really rainy and awful day with thunderstorm and lightning but in the end it cleared up in the evening and the sun finally showed up again.

So at 6:50pm the door of the gym, the old shed was opened by Maryanne Johnstone and the small group waiting outside went in. When everybody had settled down with his mat in a circle and Yvonne finally arrived the yoga lesson started.

This evening even a male attended had found his way to the yoga class. Everybody tried his best and did all the exercises in his or her own rhythm. 72 years old was the oldest attendant and she did really well. So hopefully they are continuing their yoga classes every several month, when they can get a yoga instructor. Otherwise Maryanne is doing a great job including different types of exercises in her aerobic classes.

Join the classes on Monday and Wednesday at 7 pm at the youth club. It is a wonderful opportunity to meet people and to have some physical exercise together in a group. FUN, SPORT and SOCIAL CONTACT.

So when was you last visit of an exercising group???

Sue's Christmas Dinner Part2

Today we are going to tell you about the second part of our fabulous dinner on Saturday the 26^thNovember.

After getting their aperitifs the ladies were in a really good mood and started unpacking their Christmas presents which was part of the decoration. Big bangs everywhere and laughter about the inside of the presents.

“Ho, Ho, ho”, you could hear then. A real Santa stepped in. Completely dressed up, in red and white, with a long, long beard. It was time for the seventeen ladies to get their Christmas presents. With a lot of laughter and some interesting face expressions they unpacked their presents. If they are going to use them that’s a question which we will never be able to answer. After this exciting visit from Santa the Starters were served.

Five tasty things on every plate. In the menu it was called “Glorious Five Canapés”. There was char grilled zucchini with cream cheese filling. A rice cup with a mango and prawn salsa filling, a herb cheese fritter with baby rocket, a Thai meatball with sweet chili sauce and at least chunky pesto bite.

Overwhelmed but happy with so many choices the real dinner started and it went silent for a few seconds when everybody tasted the first bit.

Main course and dessert interest you as well. No worries we are going to write about the last parts tomorrow!!

Sue's Christmas Dinner

Like we told you on Friday we had a really busy weekend. Preparing the whole week long for the big event on Saturday night.

Sue's Christmas Dinner.

So finally it was Saturday Peieta, Tanja and Larissa were cooking and decorating the whole day long. At six o’clock the whole event should start. So Peieta got on the bus and left to pick up most of the ladies here in Cunnamulla. Chris Webster , Sally Moody, Chris Mills and Maureen got their personal chauffeurs or have been driving themselves to town. All in all at around 7pm the party started. The ice boxes weren’t big enough to chill all the wine and champagne bottles the ladies brought with them. After every lady found here place around the fantastically decorated table, which has been the fabulous work of Tanja, the evening started with an aperitif. Strawberry and orange ice cubes with chilled champagne.

This was the first time you could hear a lot of “Ahhhhh” and “Ohhhs”. Do you want to know what we were serving as Starters?

Then you have to read our Blog tomorrow.

Viviane on Tour last part

On Sunday Viviane and the Outback team started early. At 9 o’clock it was time to get in the car and head for Eulo. Before, Viviane enjoyed a wonderful local breakfast with the Mills family. It was a drive with a lot of information about the surrounding area of Cunnamulla and the businesses and industries here. At Eulo there was time to take some pictures during a quick stop. Afterwards the mud springs were the next destination. Unfortunately they are dried out but the landscape was enough to get amazing pictures. Viviane was very pleased and had even to delete pictures from another trip so she could get more and more of the beauties of Australia. After a long long drive the final arrive was in Hungerford. Amazing, to step trough the border of New South Wales and Queensland. For lunch the old pub was the best opportunity, we even found Swiss money on the ceiling of the pub. The cellar was really scary but Viviane was brave enough to climb down and to explore the cellar. On the way back our trip took us to three amazing lakes. The saltwater lake had even the color of an ocean and with the sandy bank it was like at the beach!! Finally back in Cunnamulla the day was nearly over. And Viviane got ready to leave the next morning.

 

Viviane on Tour

Sooo this is our next report from our grandios Tour with Viviane.  When we came back from the magnificent kayaking trip we headed off to Rocky Station.  After about an hour drive we arrived at Rocky. During the drive we were entertained by Les Capewell the local drover and whip cracker of Cunnamulla.  He was talking about all the kind of different trees, grasses and animals we saw on our way.

At Rocky’s we went for the Wallaby walk which guides you along the river and let you have an amazing experience spotting Wallabies and kangaroos. Luckily we were able to spot several and one was really close and had a Joey in his pouch. It was a nice walk in the shade of the trees. Afterwards we went over the 70 m long free-swinging Indiana Jones styled footbridge. Les scared the death out of us when he started jumping on the bridge.

Safely we went back to the car and started to head for Charlotte Plains. Kangaroos and more kangaroos all kind of sizes and sorts passed our way and the sunset was absolutely amazing.

When we arrived at the hot artesian bores we were nearly starving thank goodness an amazing cheese platter saved our life’s. Enjoying cold drinks and nice crackers, olives and cheese we watched Viviane trying to crack the whip. She did a really great job and was very pleased with herself.

After a long drive back the evening ended with fish and salad as dinner in the restaurant of Out the Back Australia.

 

On Tour with Vivian

Amazing days with Viviane!!! On our 4-Day Backpacker Tour!!!

The Tour started on Friday when Vivian arrived at 19:45 at the head office here at Out the Back Australia. After a nice dinner in our restaurant Vivian enjoyed a quiet and peaceful night at the Cunnamulla Hotel.

The next morning started at 9 o’clock with a cooked breakfast in the café. Scrum pled eggs, cooked tomatoes and toast as well as fruits… yummy!!

Afterwards action!!! It was time for kayaking along the Warrego River. Start was at the Weir which is 5 km away from Cunnamulla. John Mills dropped Peieta, Vivian and Larissa there to start the kayak adventure. After paddling against the wind everybody was really hot and needed a break. So lunch break at the river bank where they went for a nice swim in the river and enjoyed a steak sandwich. Which was cooked on a spat over the fire. Unfortunately we had no knife so it was a bit difficult to part the steak. After a short paddle to the other side they have been picked up by Eddie Mills, Peieta’s Dad.

Then it was time to head for the next part of the Tour.

Interested what we have done else?? Read our Blog tomorrow!!!

 

Graduation Day

Today is a big day for the highest class of Cunnamulla’s state school.

It is GRADUATION DAY!!

Thank goodness most of the pupils think. Oh know some might recognize because they have to do something else. Job? Relaxing? First there are the holidays so you do not have to worry about that but you have to get organized.

Anyways it is a big day in life a big change you are released in the real world of the adults. On the one hand side that’s wonderful on the other you might be afraid. That’s okay even here in an Outback town like Cunnamulla pupils are pupils. Everyone should enjoy the last day in school because the things which are following are not like anything you have experienced before. In fact it is really nice to know you never have to go back but there will be one day you are really missing school or the regularity of a school day. If not that’s even better. We all should enjoy ourselves but do not forget about getting a job and earning your first money. That feeling is a great feeling, I can tell you….!!!

But anyways, celebrate this big day!!

Congratulation to everybody who is graduating today, we hope you are all having a wonderful day, enjoying the sun, celebrating and having fun!!!

What have you been doing on your graduation day?? Do you remember how you felt?