Travel: OZ Blog Ep: 8 - Week 6 Noosa

What’s up everyone!

The next stop on our trip was Noosa. A nice coastal town with nice beaches. We spent a few days here before our Fraser Island trip. We stayed at Nomad’s, as they are who we booked out Fraser trip with. awesome hostel, clean rooms, has a pool area, the bar food was really good and the bar was always lively and the place to be in Noosa. Other than our usual chilling in the day and drinking and partying at night, we managed to get out after hearing about some cool places on the coastal walk. Strangely we found some old junior school friends at our hostel, small world ay. I would highly recommend doing the coastal walk. lovely views, not challenging walk at all. And it’s just a nice way to spend sunset. One of the spots which I would highly recommend is the Fairy Pools. It’s not the easiest to find if you stick to the path but if you’re lucky you can see a few people going there. Its a couple of big rocks raised up from the sea level that fills up with water for the bigger waves, creating a natural swimming pool. It’s a pretty cool spot to chill and jump into as its quite deep when filled. We walked all the way up to a spot called hell’s gate, which we heard about from watching a video of cliff jumpers jumping from that spot, looking at it in person. I wouldn’t dare.

Only being here for a few days we didn’t explore the area too much. But we did see Marvel Avengers: End Game part one at the time in the cinema, which was a must for us Marvel nerds.

If you haven’t already checked out part one of my Aus travel videos, you can see a few clips from the Noosa coastal walk at the end. And also the pictures below which I took while in Noosa.

Next Stop Fraser Island!

Travel: OZ Blog Ep: 7 - Week 6 Australia Zoo

Hey Everyone! Now I don’t know about you but I spent a lot of my childhood watching The Crocodile Hunter, loved watching Steve Irwin with all the animals. And I was gutted to find out about his death on the news. I had to go to his zoo that I used to watch all them years ago. It was cool to see lots of animals I hadn’t seen before. Escpaiclly my new favourite Australian animal the Echidna. Basically like a hedgehog with a moles face which waddles about, pretty cool right! I would highly recommend visiting if you enjoy learning and looking at animals. Here are a few shots I took below.

Also Check out my Australia Travel Video Part 1, which you can see some of the animals in.

Next Stop Noosa

Philippines 2019 Part 2 - Coron & Boracay

So after a few days, a few boat tours and many red horse beers we decided to move to our next stop, Coron. Getting the ferry from El Nido port to Coron. Touching the port on Coron we were met by a swarm of trike drivers trying to get you to use them. Fact! Don’t pay more than 150 max. They massively up the price. So again we were out of luck booking the hostel we wanted. Getting a trike to the top of the hill to Hop to try and check-in, unfortunately, they were booked up, and they don’t have a sexy house. We managed to get a hostel just out of town slightly called Fat Monkey. Lovely hostel if you want peace and quiet, has a great hammock area, but you need to be with good people to have any form of a good time. Luckily for us, we managed to make a great group on the first day. Shout out the Fat Monkey crew.

We got up to many things while in Coron, we went to the hot springs, Hired a boat with some friends to a few more island destinations like Baracuda Lake. If you get offered a spring roll looking thing with rice and banana inside, buy loads. They are one of the tastiest things I’ve eaten on my travels. We went on a trip in the night to kayak a lake to see fireflies and plankton, which honestly is probably one of the most magical things I’ve ever witnessed. Do take note of how the moon is though, we did it on a full moon and the visibility is worse for the plankton and you have to go under trees to be able to see them.

In regards to nightlife. Hop Hostel holds events on the rooftop, which are pretty good. And in town, there is a bar called No Name Bar, which is the best out of limited options. When trying to leave Coron it became difficult with our original plan. Originally we were going to get a ferry somewhere to then eventually get to Boracay. However, due to the ferry schedule was different from what it was originally online. Weighing up the cost and losing days we decided to fly from Francisco B. Reyes Airport, formerly Busuanga Airport.

Now there’s only really one reason why you got to Boracay. To party. Putting the cameras down for a few days was nice. We stayed at Mad Monkeys hostel, known for the party vibe. And it was just that. From the moment we go there we partied in the hostel, Woke up to go onto a boat party with Mad Monkeys all day to then go to the hostel bar and then to a Club to continue till the early hours of the morning. A few days are enough otherwise your liver may hate you. Amazing staff and family vibe to Mad Monkeys. Just don’t get caught with a drink in your left hand otherwise you will hear ‘HUGO!’ and have to neck your drink through a funnel. And if you are patriotic about your country and wanting to be the best. Help your country be on the top of the leader board for Boracay Bombs shots. Obviously if partying isn’t your thing you wouldn’t need to go to Boracay. After the partied filled few days we flew to Cebu to go to our next destination Moal Boal.

Check out the pictures below of Coron and Part 2 of my Philippines Travel Video.

Travel: OZ Blog Ep: 5 - Week 5/6 Brisbane

Hey Everyone! I know I’m terrible at getting around to blogging all the spots I went to. And I’ve even finished all the videos for Australia finally!

So Brisbane. Still, on the route of making our way up the east coast, Mark and I were lucky enough to stay at my family friends apartment for a week in Fortitude Valley. Was really nice to have some space, chill in a lounge in an evening watching TV and catching up on a bit of life admin.

Our first proper day we met our hometown friend Jack, who was going to be joining us on our trip after Brisbane. We hopped into Jack’s Subaru Forrester and went to check out Mt Coot-tha look out over the city. After a brief wander around that area, we went to check out South Bank for some food and a see touristy things like the Brisbane sign.

The nightlife was pretty awesome in Brisbane. So much to choose from in Fortitude Valley and it gets pretty busy. a few of the places we checked out were Rick’s. It caught my attention as there was a band playing in the front room and after everyone disappeared. it wasn’t till I went to the toilet I found a whole outdoor area packed with people dancing. It was good from what I can remember haha. Another place I checked out was The Brightside. now if your a post-emo kid like myself you will love it. A converted church looking building, live music and after alternative rock Dj’s playing everything from My Chemical Romance to Paramore. Reminding me of District and Face Down nights with have in the UK. So if that’s your thing definitely check it out.

Another thing I would recommend going to is the Wet n Wild waterpark. It’s a good day out with friends. and some of the slides are unreal. it was a bonus that Billabong had a shop there and it had a massive sale on too.

Next stop Surfers Paradise