Category: Grand Tour 2023
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Day 64: Airlie Beach, Australia
March 31, 2023 — I don’t think I’ve ever felt relief as sweet as when I finally got off that Greyhound bus in Airlie Beach. If you missed the post where I detail the journey, check it out here. I did, however, get some pretty decent sleep on the bus and for that reason I…
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Days 63 to 64: Overnight to Airlie Beach
March 30 to 31, 2023 — Many of you will remember my overnight trip from Melbourne to Sydney, which took about twelve hours and wasn’t too bad. If you need a refresher, see my post here. This was so much worse. I’m not a hundred percent sure what made it so bad, but I do…
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Day 63: Rainbow Beach, Australia
March 30, 2023 — I woke up in the morning and gathered my stuff so that I could check out of the room by ten a.m. Luckily it wasn’t too difficult since I hadn’t had much chance to get unpacked at all! Once I’d checked out, I sat with my stuff at one of the…
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Day 62: K’gari / Fraser Island
March 29, 2023 — Yet another later-morning wake-up. Even though we didn’t have to be up early, I have to say that the weather was a great impetus to get out of bed. The sun hit our side of the tents after it rose, and having it beat down on the canvas made it really…
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Day 61: K’gari / Fraser Island
March 28, 2023 — I really enjoyed the later mornings here on Fraser. We were all up shortly after seven a.m., but didn’t really have to go anywhere until nine. We got up, had coffee, got dressed, packed, had a breakfast of fry-up, then headed to the Champagne Pools. The Champagne Pools on the island…
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Day 60: K’gari / Fraser Island
March 27, 2023 — My alarm went off bright and early at 6:00am and after changing into my swimsuit, shorts, and a t-shirt, I headed to reception to check out, hand off my alcohol, stow my bags, and complete a small amount of extra paperwork. We separated into car groups and said hello to our…
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Day 59: Noosa to Rainbow Beach
March 26, 2023 — Today, I left Noosa and headed to Rainbow Beach. In my original itinerary, I wasn’t even going to stay in Noosa at all but when I booked my tour from Rainbow Beach to Fraser Island before I left home, the dates that I had to choose from were a couple days…
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Day 58: Noosa, Australia
March 25, 2023 — This morning I headed out on an excursion to the Noosa Everglades! This is one of the extras that I was able to book because I was no longer snorkelling, and I was really glad that I did because it allowed me to see one of the only two defined Everglades…
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Day 57: Brisbane to Noosa
March 24, 2023 — I woke up a little later than I planned today but I still had enough time to take a shower, pack, take my stuff downstairs, gather my food, and check out before 10:00am. I had breakfast after I checked out and left my stuff in luggage storage while I went to…
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Day 56: Brisbane, Australia
March 23, 2023 — I made it to the Glass House Mountains! Neither Antonia nor Aimee was able to join me but I got up, dressed, and had breakfast, then caught the train just after nine and settled in for the hour and a half journey north. When I got off the train at the…
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