000cozzie000
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Do we really have camels walking on our beaches? :shifty:
And reghead121 is about to experience her first Aussie summer. How do we stop her from.... dying? :cheeky:
Well first of all u need a AIR CON....wanna make that clear!
You will also need the beach...and of course US MJJC FANS!
A lot of fans from Australia seem to be from the Melbourne area...maybe I should think of this in reverse? Come summer, maybe I should jump on a train...if one goes all the way there. Any good beaches in the Melbourne area?
I wont be climbing Uluru no :no: the local aboriginal groups have requested that the area remain sacred and treated as such and they're not too keen on folks climbing the rock so I'm going to respect their wishes in regards to that.
PS: since this is the Aussie thread....anyone try the "new' vegemite yet? Anyone else even LIKE the regular? All my friends thought I'd hate it but I LOVE IT. The new one isn't bad either...but I prefer the original because it's saltier.
You know I've heard about that, but some Japanese people that I lived with went to Uluru and climbed it, they didn't seem phased by it.
So do most Aussies respect the Aborigines' wishes? Because I've lived with heaps of international students and they didn't seem to care.
Now that's impressive. Most people who haven't grown up with it hate it! I haven't tried the new one but I LOVE the old one. You know I've seen videos of Americans who bought some vegemite and spread it on dry toast like it was nutella! Ewwww....
A lot of fans from Australia seem to be from the Melbourne area...maybe I should think of this in reverse? Come summer, maybe I should jump on a train...if one goes all the way there. Any good beaches in the Melbourne area?
But I do know that my friends and I are doing a road trip this summer...albeit a small one. We are undecided. I want to see the 12 Apostles/southern coast... they want the Seaworld/Gold Coast. What do you all think?
There's a beach every 2 minutes, but it's cold.. bloody cold! Everytime we'd stop off at one of the beaches, 5 minutes later we'd all be running back to the car to get back to the heater :lol:
Same goes for the 12 apostles, we couldn't keep our eyes open long enough to see them properly because of the cold! And this was in summer :bugeyed
BUT.. if I had to choose between gold coast and great ocean road, I'd pick great ocean road. I'm not a big city person, and I love nature.
Oh and a tip.. do NOT go on a tour. Make sure you have a friend that can drive and rent a car. I went on one of the tours and OH MY GOD they don't shut up. Not for one second.
OH you big WUSS..... it's not cold whatchu talkin bout willis? :lol: I spent the whole afternoon swimming in Apollo Bay.
Torquay (and more specifically Jan Juc) is probably the most visited beach for me.
But I agree Don't do a tour... waste of money... if you stop at most of the popular spots there's a bucketload of information. (for example at the start of the road there's all the information that explains how the Great Ocean Road was built by returning veterans from the great war.
Any other secret aussie foods I need to know about? lol
Summer road trip...
You'll need to work out whether you want to just go to the beach and some amusement parks.... or whether you want to see some great natural stuff.
I did the Great Ocean Road at the end of last summer... totally reccommend it.
We did a 4 day trip on the Great Ocean Road and we tented it. Stayed in a Apollo Bay and a place called Laver's Hill which is like 30 minutes out of Apollo Bay.
The beach at Apollo bay is awesome, we also went to the Otway Ranges and did the tree-top walk (Beautiful!!) We camped under koalas in the Otway's one night as well. Went and saw the apostles, also check out the glow worms one night in the Melb Gully forest (2 minutes from Laver's Hill).
The road is incredible and there's so much stuff to do and great places to eat along the way as well.
Well we can't forget about Timtams of course. If you haven't had your first "timtam orgasm" yet, then get onto it! Bite the 2 ends off a timtam and use it as a straw to suck up hot coffee.. yum yum yummm.
And yes, I'm quite proud of how sexual my explanation ended up sounding :cheeky:
I haven't had one yet but I definately know about them. I was in the store a few weeks ago looking for Graham Crackers (which I now know you all don't have here...) and my friend was down the isle a little ways helping me look. She then shouts to me down the isle...you had a timtam yet?
And me...friggin' American that I am...shouted back... What's a timtam?? :mello:
Like FIVE random people in the isle all stopped and looked at me!!! I was like.... WHAT? lol :bugeyed
Then two of those random people went on to tell me how good they are, how to eat them, and to make sure I try them. So yeah.. I know about them lol.
Well done on turning the chocolate treat into a sexual reference haha :swoon:
LMAO.. well if I was in that isle I would have done the exact same thing :lol: that's like me going to the states and asking "what's a twinkie?".. I'm sure I'd get the same reaction :bugeyed
Well you've GOT to try them. I recommend the "double coat' tim tams. They're exactly the same as the original timtams but with a better coating of chocolate around the outside mmmm
And actually the double coat ones hold together better when you do the... orgasm.
I'll stop :cheeky:
you haven't had your first "timtam orgasm" yet, then get onto it
Get yourself a piece of Pavlova!! oh yum!!