10 week trip to australia

[jred321]

ok so now the plan we have right now for this trip i'm going on is:

fly into melbourne march 7
fly to brisbane march 9
bus to surfer's paradise
stay there til the 13th
melbourne doing work for the australian bureau of statistics and stuff until easter break
probably fitzroy (sp?) island over easter break
work again until may 5
then we're either going to new zealand or cairns for like a week

should be a good time hopefully http://www.astinagt.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

p.s.- are skyline gtr's around a good amount or are they fairly rare? i've never seen one in person and need to

[AZDriftR]

lucky basterd!

[twilightprotege]

nice trip! i live in brisbane and you'll see plenty s13/s14/s15, gt-t's, gts's...and a few gtr's (r32/33 and 34's)

[jred321]

sweeeeeeeeet, gonna have some good pictures :)

[twilightprotege]

oh and go to a nissan dealer and test drive an s15.

[twilightprotege]

oh i should add, we call them 200sx's here

[jred321]

oh and go to a nissan dealer and test drive an s15.haha, sounds like a good time to me :)

[twilightprotege]

if you're interested as well, go to a ford dealer and take a falcon xr6 turbo for a drive

[Critter]

I can't help thinking how much...."fun"....the sales dude would have riding with a test-driver used to the other side of the road! LOL

[jred321]

I can't help thinking how much...."fun"....the sales dude would have riding with a test-driver used to the other side of the road! LOLhahahaha, plus you guys have some crazy way to make turns down there that i have no idea about.

[twilightprotege]

just watch out for kangaroo's and crocodiles. they are all over the roads, especially in the cities.

[jred321]

just watch out for kangaroo's and crocodiles. they are all over the roads, especially in the cities.i really hope you're joking(crazy)

[twilightprotege]

nah, totally serious. esp the kangaroo's.



hehehehe....j/k

[jred321]

you crazy australians

[twilightprotege]

well we do have 9 out of the 10 most venomous snakes in the world (we have 1-6), the top 4 venomous spiders, and steve irwin. we live in a dangerous country ;)

[jred321]

so i've heard, my friends are working at the victoria zoo, i'm definitely going to visit them at work. i'm not so sure i like the idea of some of those animals just walking around though

[Critter]

Don't laugh.
I actually have a sign in my street warning people to look out for Kangaroos on the road!
The sign is a kangaroo sign but it is actually for wallabies. What are they?
Kinda small kangaroos that are nocturnal, and they will come out at night and graze on people's lawns when the pickings are slim in the forest. Lots of them where I live.

Seriously cute things, but when you come flying around the corner late at night and there's a couple of dozen wallabies all over the road.....whoa!!!
I can tell you if you hit a kangaroo (bigger) at any kind of speed, life has just gone pear-shaped on you.
In the real outback of Australia, people have "roo bars" on the front of their cars......

This IS the truth! Can send you a pic of the sign if you like.

Oh yeah, in Australian "the truth" is "fair dinkum" :)

[twilightprotege]

yeah i've gone close to taking out kangaroo's in country queensland and new south wales.

in the northern territory it gets a little worrying when a dead kangaroo (hit by a road train - ie big truck with 4 trailers for you yanks) takes up half of the road and you have to drive on the wrong side of the road to miss it and the wedge tailed eagle eating the roo

[Zed]

Haha, most of the animals in Australia are pretty harmless if you leave them alone and don't do anything to provoke them.

Up my way (suburban Sydney), I've got signs to watch out for wombats on the road. Plenty of swamp wallabies around too. Melbourne zoo is nice, you should enjoy it.

[jred321]

Oh yeah, in Australian "the truth" is "fair dinkum" :)speaking of which, do you know of any sites with australian sayings and what they mean or could you put together a quick list so when people say things to me i don't just sit there and look at them like they're crazy? cause if someone said "fair dinkum" to me, i'd think they were talking gibberish

[noclue119]

well we do have 9 out of the 10 most venomous snakes in the world (we have 1-6), the top 4 venomous spiders, and steve irwin. we live in a dangerous country ;)
was there for 3 weeks last year. went to brisbane, sydney, melbour, carnes. You gotta check out surfer's paradise. that shit is bad ass. If you can bring me some VB beer back.. I'll pay 3 dollars a can....

[twilightprotege]

hahahahaha aussie sayings....just dont say g'day. if you're not an aussie we dont like it. i cant really think of any because they are second nature really. some are really stupid and only country bumpkins use, some everyone uses (like g'day)

VB? you want VB? yuk!!!! it's not called visitors beer for nothing....

[noclue119]

hahahahaha aussie sayings....just dont say g'day. if you're not an aussie we dont like it. i cant really think of any because they are second nature really. some are really stupid and only country bumpkins use, some everyone uses (like g'day)

VB? you want VB? yuk!!!! it's not called visitors beer for nothing....

I like XXXX too but hehe vistor beer.

[twilightprotege]

xxxx is a queensland beer. it's xxxx because queenslander's (ie me) have trouble spelling beer.

[Critter]

Get yourself some Empire beer, nice!! :) or Crown Lager....but then I'm a lager kinda guy.....

Isn't it true that ONLY Queenslanders drink XXXX beer? LOL

Vistors from Stateside need to get used to the way we do dates.
ie we do it day/month/year not month/day/year (logical*cough*)

Oh and ass is arse here.....we sit on our arses....

[jred321]

http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

so how many of these actually get used?

[twilightprotege]

hahahaha, that's so funny....but hate to say you'll hear prob 40-50% of those

[jred321]

uh oh, and i thought i was going to a country where they spoke the same language as me :p

[twilightprotege]

you'll be right...we'll just laugh when you dont understand stuff ;)

[ahb11m]

yep gotta keep an eye out for steve irwin on the road... he'll try to tackle ya car

haha got for a drive in a runout model BJ... would be fun (just the opposites thing...) but yes i highly recommend a drive in the Ford BA Falcon XR6 Turbo....... *pant*

like i have already said you really should go to sydney, but i won't hold that against ya...

QLD has heaps of jap imports, coz they get imported through QLD complianced for australia, and then are legal in every state of australia...... i need a silvia.... naaa i think i'd rather a GTR

How about direct import JDM Mazda Familia Sport20 AWD then add turbo??

[ahb11m]

btw, don't be silly and try to use the slang... we'll laugh harder...


i thought that the B&S ball was Blokes and Sheilas!!!

right don't follow any of these reccommendations, you want to drink Tooheys Extra Dry.. the only good beer here!!! failing that you should drink Coopers Pale Ale (green)

and yes the risk of hitting wildlife while driving is high... i've hit a roo once, cost AU$1400 to fix!!! (and the thing got up and bounced away..) hit eagles as theyyy like to eat the kangaroos on the road... and came close to hitting a cow.... only god knows why there was a cow in the middle of the road.... BTW if you are driving have a squizz at http://www.rat.gov.nsw.au (Roads and Traffic Authority NSW) there are some v. good points on driving here

the weird turns are called hook turns and you only need them in mexico... i mean victoria (south of the border.......)

[twilightprotege]

hook turns....damn trams