Rock climbing, relaxing and rugby: two Belfast boys do Australia
Rory and Ryan are two self-confessed ‘rookie travellers’ from Belfast who have been on a world tour for the past six months, blogging about it on The Long Way to Milford Sound. As the name suggests, they’ve long been aiming for New Zealand - but despite dismissing Australia as ‘just a big desert filled with people with silly accents’, they were persuaded to drop in for a look on their way:
It was dear old Aaron Bolt of STA Travel, who first got me interested in the place, promising desert islands, sailing, Grand Prix and the usual host of Swedish travellers. Two of the attractions he talked about were the Whitsunday Islands and Fraser Island both north of Brisbane. It was this lure that separated us in Brisbane as I headed north into Queensland and Rory travelled south with Matthew to Byron Bay, New South Wales.
The lads’ latest post is a great record of their different experiences down under, from sailing along east coast and trying to avoid the Germans in Byron Bay to exploring Fraser Island in a 4×4 driven by a ‘white van driver from London’. It’s must-read stuff if you’re after advice on the top spots in Oz, and check out their Flickr photos too.
