down under - australia sailing and travel blog

Put related sailing blogs on your website!

2010-12-23T13:40:00.001-08:00

TripSailor now offers widgets to put related sailing blogs on your site to improve the user relevance of your site. It’s free and easy to use. Just customize the widget to fit your needs, grab the widget code and paste it into your website.

You have good or bad experiences with chartering a Yacht? - Write a Review and Win

2010-03-29T09:46:00.001-07:00

Recently returned from your yacht charter vacation? We'd love to hear all about it. Share your experiences and you'll be automatically entered into our sweepstakes!

Almost 30 lucky prize winners will be treated to up to EUR 1,000 (~1300 USD) worth of travel – simply for helping other YachtAdviser users make informed decisions about their next charter. If you've recently returned from a yacht charter vacation, please take a few minutes to post a customer review. You could win a voucher good towards the purchase of your next charter vacation!

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You can write a review in just minutes. Our review form makes it easy to personalize and preview your opinions. What were your overall impressions of your yacht? What were your favorite anchorages/marinas? In your opinion, what are the "must-see" attractions and most entertaining activities?

Write a Review and Win

Recently returned from your yacht charter vacation? We'd love to hear all about it. Share your experiences and you'll be automatically entered into our sweepstakes!

Almost 30 lucky prize winners will be treated to up to EUR 1,000 (~1300 USD) worth of travel – simply for helping other YachtAdviser users make informed decisions about their next charter. If you've recently returned from a yacht charter vacation, please take a few minutes to post a customer review. You could win a voucher good towards the purchase of your next charter vacation!

Here's how it works.
You can write a review in just minutes. Our review form makes it easy to personalize and preview your opinions. What were your overall impressions of your yacht? What were your favorite anchorages/marinas? In your opinion, what are the "must-see" attractions and most entertaining activities?

Why you should post.
There are plenty of good reasons to post – as many as 1,000 of them, to be exact! Once your review has been accepted, you could win up to EUR 1,000 just for sharing your expertise with fellow yacht charter and sailing lovers. You'll be automatically entered into our sweepstakes, one lucky reviewer will win a voucher redeemable towards the purchase of a future yacht charter vacation.

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Great Sailing News Resource

2010-01-20T08:16:00.001-08:00

Just found a great Sailing News Agregator on Twitter! Collected Sailing News from around the world - keeps you up 2 date with whats going on in the Sailing World.

Sailing News Twitter

- Enjoy

Sailing Blog from Queensland - Australia

2010-01-19T11:23:00.001-08:00

Auspray Adventures Sailing Blog - Starting at Port Douglas we aim to travel south, exploring the various island clusters between here and Townsville. Towards the end of Summer we plan to backtrack and travell northwards.....
...After a very peaceful night moored at Double Island, we left early for a short detour before continuing our journey.

The ocean was like a mill pond and we dropped anchor just off Clifton Beach and spent an hour in the picnic area on the beach saying our farewells to Jon and Roma, some long term friends.

Leaving Clifton Beach at around 10.30 am we continued on our way to our next stop, Fitzroy Island. We estimated it would take about 4 hours and so hoped to be there about 2.30pm.....

Read their Sailing Blog from Queenland .

Adriatic Sailing Week

2009-05-19T06:05:00.000-07:00

Stories, Tracks and Photos of the Adriatic Sailing Week 2009 in Croatia (Murter - Piskera - Siebenic - Vodice - Murter) - can be found here:

* Adriatic Sailing Week 2009 (English)
* Adriatic Sailing Week 2009 (German)

Sailing and Cruising Blogs Collection

2009-01-22T02:21:00.000-08:00

Another nice collection featuring sailing blogs in google earth: Sailing and Cruising Blogs Collection

Create a Sailing Blog on TripSailor.com - Video

2009-01-22T02:16:00.000-08:00

How to create your own sailing blog

2007-11-25T12:39:00.000-08:00

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2007-11-13T12:20:00.000-08:00

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TripSailor.com -Private Beta launched

2007-08-02T11:21:00.000-07:00

Today TripSailor.com launched the private beta phase.

If your are a sailor and have some sailing-stories and/or photos you would like to share - sign up at TripSailor.com and contribute your content.

documenting blog of TripSailor.com

2007-06-10T10:41:00.000-07:00

www.tripsailor.blogspot.com - this site documents the build, launch and grow of the TripSailor Sailing Community site ( i wrote about in the last post).

TripSailor is now looking for sailors who want to help improve the site during the private beta. If your interested, you can drop a line to the TripSailor developer team here.

Cape York, Northern Queensland

2007-01-06T16:32:00.000-08:00

the final tip - cape york. the most northern point of australia!!! it's really worth the long way up north. be sure to have a good car when you go up there.
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ayers rock (northen territory, australia)

2006-04-04T10:54:00.000-07:00

ayers rock - changing colors...

when i saw some of the typical australian tourist postcards, showing ayers rock in 10 different colors, i always thougt that this is not natural - and it's made by photoshop. but then i took some pictures myself - during the day, at suset and sunrise.

when standing there you don't realise that ayers rock alia uluru is changing the color so much. but after i developed the slides at home and looking at them - i couldn't believe how many different colors ayers rock can have.

i hope you can get an impression when watching the pictures.....

more information on ayers rock:

the whitsundays (queensland, australia)

2006-03-14T13:55:00.000-08:00

well, i know that australia has uncountable amzing places - but still, a few are really a must. so, here is something again you really have to do when you visit the eastcoast of australia!!! ;-)

it is a trip to the amazing whitsunday islands!!!

it's really unbelievable how white the beaches of theses islands are. the most popular beach is for sure the whitehaven beach and on the right end of this beach is the famous hill inlet. to see whitsunday islands you have different possibilities - there are offered hundreds of tours and trips.

there are trips offered with a sailing ship - something for people who have a little bit more time, and trips with motorboats. all trips and tours actually are stopping at the same places actually - so it just depends on you!

the two pictures above show the amzing hill inlet!! - it said to be on of the 10 most beautifull beaches in the world! - well, i believe it ;-)

in the first picture you even can see our boat.

the best place to book and start your tour to the whitsundays is airlie beach. airlie beach offers a lot of hotels and hostels - it's really a meetingpoint for backpackers!

some links for further information:

fraser island (queensland)

2006-03-01T01:44:00.000-08:00

Fraser Island!!

....if you are in australia - and travelling up (or down) the eastcoast, be sure to have 3 or even 5 days time for fraser island!!! its situated between brisbane and cairns.
this island has really everything you can imagine!

driving with 60mph on the beach!!!

it's said to be the largest island made of sand in the world. best thing to do is to take the barge to the island an drive there with your 4wd (if you dont have one - u can rent them in harvey bay). barges leave from rainbow beach and harvey bay. it's an island that provides everything - lakes, rainforest, dunes, shipwrecks, .... i stayed there for 4 days. it's a good place and chance to get your 4wd to know. ;-)

if you don't want to hire or buy a car, there are also a lot of tours offered to explore the island.
only 4wd are allowed to access the island - but if you dont have your own, you can rent them in hervey bay or rainbow beach.

as whole fraser island is a national park (and a world heritage area), you have to get a permission to drive there. permits are sold in harvey bay and rainbow beach. - and bring all your food with you, as shopping in the small stores on the island is very expensive and not everything you might need is sold there.

if you are afraid of driving on your own, there are a lot of tours (eg. 3 day fraser island safaris )offered also!

buying/selling a car in australia

2006-01-23T09:36:00.000-08:00

..this was my car for two years. it was just a few years younger than me - but it did a very good job. it was a toyota hilux with a diesel engine. if you really want to see australia you actually have to buy (or rent) a 4WD. as soon as you spend more than approximatly 12 weeks in down under it's cheaper to buy a car (and re-sell it again) than to rent one. many people are afraid of buying a car in a foreign country, but for australia, i can say it is even easier to buy and register a car there than it's here in austria!!! but, if you plan to buy a car - u should at least plan one week for buying and another week for selling the car. it took me just about 45 minutes to get an insurance and the registration. to be sure that you can easily resell you car - sell in the state where it is registrated. the same thing is if you have to extend your registration - it's much easier to do it in the state where the car is registrated!!!

2006-01-19T08:13:00.000-08:00

...."the first footprint".

Again one of my absolute favorite pictures. it was taken on a sanddune near rainbow beach (queensland, australia). offcourse this is a sunset picture again - the best time for shooting really nice holiday pictures. from rainbow beach a smal barge can carry to fraser island (it leaves from the beach and brings you to the beach).

related links and topics:

Devils Marbles - Northern Teritory - Australia

2006-01-16T11:58:00.000-08:00

devils marbles (just between alice springs and darwin ;-) ). it's really worth a stop because there isn't really something else to take pictures of on this bloody long way. best time to be there - sunrise or sunset - then you have the best light to take really amazing pictures. some more photos of the devils marbles will follow soon.

Fraser Island - Queensland - Australia

2006-01-15T14:19:00.000-08:00

another one of my favourite pictures - lake makenzie on fraser island (queensland, australia). a freshwater lake with a white sandy beach. thats really close to paradise - no sharks, no stingers, no crocodiles, no stingrays!!!

Eucla Dunes - Australia

2006-01-14T13:46:00.000-08:00

...thats me at the eucla-dunes just in the middle of the long long nullabor road (so actually thats what you really can call "in the middle of nowhere!"). but it was really worth to ride all the long way on the nullabor with my car. i really wouldn't have missed it. Offcourse it is quite tough for the car as well as for the driver, but still it's something you have to do when you visit australia! but, be sure to have a good car and a good insurance ;-)

2006-01-14T13:15:00.000-08:00

first post!!

just started here with my blog. maybe you are wondering about the name "down under" - it's just because i'm a real big fan of australia!

Till now i have made 3 journeys to australia and spend more than 8 months in that fantastic country. This is also what my bloy will be about - travelling, backpacking, outdoor, outback and wilderness.

so far - i just have to get used to the features of this blog.

yours, daniel!