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Australia - I'm going there.
- Thread starter Brunes
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helo_wifey
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If you mountain bike Cairns has some great stuff up there.
From Alice Springs, ya gotta go and climb Ayers Rock (Aborigines call Uluru), world's largest 'pebble'!
BzB
I've only been to Sydney in recent years. All the usual pubs, The Rocks, and Opera House etc. You can take the ferry around the harbor and under the bridge. There is a great Naval Museum with a FF, sub and a couple of tall ships. Walking across the Sydney bridge seems to be thing to do (but I haven't). While walking across the road level is free (I think), walking across the top is like a hundred bucks or something.
Back in 1988 I hit Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth with my first squadron but other than booze and women, it's all a blur. Come to think of it, much of my recent Sydney time has been a drunken blur....
With a wife/gf or without?
Just so's you know...all these things aren't exactly "inside the beltway". You're talking thousands of miles of additional travel... Hell, Perth rocks on a Friday night!
The wife and I on earned leave time-The locales are already picked w/ domestic flights paid for...We've got a day in each spot to do whatever we please and a day w/ an pre-panned tour- Sydney tonight and tmrw by our selves. The 8 we go to the Blue Mountains for the day. Doing wine and snacks at sunset near Uluru. Great Barrier Reef snorkeling trip( we don't have dive cards or interest for them) and I wanna try and catch a helo ride ( like I haven't done that before...)
Probably by train?, Fairly short ride about 50 mi. Sydney to Katoomba (north end of Blue Mtns Nat'l Park). There is a neat tramway in the Park from which you get a great view of the "Blues'. Also varying views of the triple peaks called "The Three Sisters". Interesting Railway Museum in Katoomba.
Edit: Believe you can get your helo ride to/from Uluru from Alice Springs.
You'll wear out your camera up there, have fun.
BzB
I think we are bussing it and checking out Three Sisters and Echo Point, plus Blue Mtns park, Katoomba, and Leura Village. Only part that sucks is being wide awake right now....at 3:20 local....Probably by train?, Fairly short ride about 50 mi. Sydney to Katoomba (north end of Blue Mtns Nat'l Park). There is a neat tramway in the Park from which you get a great view of the "Blues'. Also varying views of the triple peaks called "The Three Sisters". Interesting Railway Museum in Katoomba.
Edit: Believe you can get your helo ride to/from Uluru from Alice Springs.
You'll wear out your camera up there, have fun.
BzB
Tylonel PM is your friend on trips like that. Be proactive to get the sleep and it's much less painful.
LMAO-Our mistake was flying from CT to AUS straight thru. Spent about 4 hours at the LAX USO but that was it..
Slept all yesterday afternoon and all night. I'm set now...Going out for brekkie and wandering the city today. Might go climb the bridge and check out the Opera house.
Slept all yesterday afternoon and all night. I'm set now...Going out for brekkie and wandering the city today. Might go climb the bridge and check out the Opera house.
That's my tried and true technique as well (or get smashed upon arrival).