Hey all, I just found this forum. I am coming down under for a solo trip, 5 weeks so I thought I would post up here.. Starting/ending in Sydney, gonna grab a 1 way I think to Cairns and work my way back down the coast. I friends in Newcastle that I will be visiting eventually, no set plans, just winging it. Looking forward to this! I am a much better snow skier/boarder than surfer but I like to get out there on easier breaks and putz around occasionally. I have diving license as well. Advice, always welcome, hit me up! :)

We call French fries chips
And ketchup tomato sauce

NAPLAN springs to mind ...... let's test this.
This is Australia not the USA so why did you say you were from the USA?

That said, i would say since its summer and lacks any snow anywhere in the southern hemisphere except the Andes (those are in South America not SA)

THIS GUY WOULD LOVE TO GO TO WOLLONGONG BEACHES (their tails and noses would wag together "il perfecto") !!!!!

"Wollongong" is the opposite direction to Newcastle , Both Newcastle or Wollongong you can travel an inter-city train from Central station (Sydney) to them and are both around the same distance from Sydney.

Wollongong would be il perfecto for you !!!

I don't think you would want to bother with Cairns or Newcastle or Sydney , they are tricky.
Wollongong would be perfect , you would be shoulder to shoulder with them their !

Farking summer everywhere, it's all be good - no ice scrapers needed - and remember, don't tip for the coldies

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nicephotog said..
NAPLAN springs to mind ...... let's test this.
This is Australia not the USA so why did you say you were from the USA?

That said, i would say since its summer and lacks any snow anywhere in the southern hemisphere except the Andes (those are in South America not SA)

THIS GUY WOULD LOVE TO GO TO WOLLONGONG BEACHES (their tails and noses would wag together "il perfecto") !!!!!

"Wollongong" is the opposite direction to Newcastle , Both Newcastle or Wollongong you can travel an inter-city train from Central station (Sydney) to them and are both around the same distance from Sydney.

Wollongong would be il perfecto for you !!!

I don't think you would want to bother with Cairns or Newcastle or Sydney , they are tricky.
Wollongong would be perfect , you would be shoulder to shoulder with them their !

Ignore this^. We have a vibrant drink/drug culture over here which can make us incomprehensible at times.

And weed is legal here,, shall I bring some..?

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theDoctor said..
We call French fries chips
And ketchup tomato sauce

No

Yanks call chips "french fries" and tomato sauce "ketchup"

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mclovin said..

nicephotog said..
NAPLAN springs to mind ...... let's test this.
This is Australia not the USA so why did you say you were from the USA?

That said, i would say since its summer and lacks any snow anywhere in the southern hemisphere except the Andes (those are in South America not SA)

THIS GUY WOULD LOVE TO GO TO WOLLONGONG BEACHES (their tails and noses would wag together "il perfecto") !!!!!

"Wollongong" is the opposite direction to Newcastle , Both Newcastle or Wollongong you can travel an inter-city train from Central station (Sydney) to them and are both around the same distance from Sydney.

Wollongong would be il perfecto for you !!!

I don't think you would want to bother with Cairns or Newcastle or Sydney , they are tricky.
Wollongong would be perfect , you would be shoulder to shoulder with them their !

Ignore this^. We have a vibrant drink/drug culture over here which can make us incomprehensible at times.

Weed is legal ??? should he bring some ??? ha,hahahahahahahaha

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DaveTV said..
And weed is legal here,, shall I bring some..?

If you are going to bring weed, make sure you pack your boogie board bag full to the brim with the stuff. No one will ever suspect a thing.

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DaveTV said..
And weed is legal here,, shall I bring some..?

Just declare in your arrival card under ''plant matter''.

should be smooth sailing

We drive on the left hand side of the road, extremely important to remember this

Remember 60% of Australians are casual racists



The other 40% are full time

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DaveTV said..
Hey all, I just found this forum. I am coming down under for a solo trip, 5 weeks so I thought I would post up here.. Starting/ending in Sydney, gonna grab a 1 way I think to Cairns and work my way back down the coast. I friends in Newcastle that I will be visiting eventually, no set plans, just winging it. Looking forward to this! I am a much better snow skier/boarder than surfer but I like to get out there on easier breaks and putz around occasionally. I have diving license as well. Advice, always welcome, hit me up! :)

Make sure your trip to Cairns is in our winter, I.e. June/July/August. Otherwise you are missing out. It will be hot, humid, and rainy if you go up there in our summer. Spend the summer to the south in Sydney, and winter in Cairns, unless you want a ski trip every now and then.

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theDoctor said..
We call French fries chips
And ketchup tomato sauce

No

Yanks call chips "french fries" and tomato sauce "ketchup"

... and we never ever throw a shrimp on the barbie

Couple of the things - the steering wheel is always on the RIGHT side and metric is awesome... ok...

Half of the above is "Pulling your pisser!!"

Half of everything that is said in Australia is "Pulling somebody's Pisser". It is a National Sport.

When you are here speaking with an American accent, do not believe a word of anything an Australian says to you because they will be "Pulling your Pisser!!"

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Pugwash said..

Mark _australia said..

theDoctor said..
We call French fries chips
And ketchup tomato sauce

No

Yanks call chips "french fries" and tomato sauce "ketchup"

... and we never ever throw a shrimp on the barbie

Couple of the things - the steering wheel is always on the RIGHT side and metric is awesome... ok...

METRIC
I weigh 80 kilo's
I'm 174 centimetres
I live 3 kilometres from the beach
I just put 50 litres of petrol in my car
My board is 9'6" and the wave are about 4 foot (oops)

Now your sorted.

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Chris_M said..
Remember 60% of Australians are casual racists



The other 40% are full time

this is so wrong.

it's more like 70/30

this will get you started to speak like a local



Watch all episodes!

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Pugwash said..
... and we never ever throw a shrimp on the barbie

LOL - I know lots of Aussies and they are funny MoFo's and this crowd is apparently no exception. About time Aus got on the legalize weed bandwagon, but that's your vote.. And the "Shrimp on the Bsrbie" thing actually came from your Australian Tourist Commission

If your in the south west..., can you possibly come n help me unblock my septic tank ?

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nicephotog said..

mclovin said..

nicephotog said..
NAPLAN springs to mind ...... let's test this.
This is Australia not the USA so why did you say you were from the USA?

That said, i would say since its summer and lacks any snow anywhere in the southern hemisphere except the Andes (those are in South America not SA)

THIS GUY WOULD LOVE TO GO TO WOLLONGONG BEACHES (their tails and noses would wag together "il perfecto") !!!!!

"Wollongong" is the opposite direction to Newcastle , Both Newcastle or Wollongong you can travel an inter-city train from Central station (Sydney) to them and are both around the same distance from Sydney.

Wollongong would be il perfecto for you !!!

I don't think you would want to bother with Cairns or Newcastle or Sydney , they are tricky.
Wollongong would be perfect , you would be shoulder to shoulder with them their !

Ignore this^. We have a vibrant drink/drug culture over here which can make us incomprehensible at times.

Weed is legal ??? should he bring some ??? ha,hahahahahahahaha

If your heading up/down the east coast...
www.seabreeze.com.au/News/Surfing/Make-Merimbula-Great-Again-The-DoMALd-Event_11885348.aspx

And if you want to drink Fosters...you'll need to bring some with you. Contrary to what your TV ads tell you no-one over here drinks it. I don't even know anywhere that sells it.

Dunno, maybe Cisco means "fair shake of the sauce bottle", or other such every day nomenclature.

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Harrow said..
And if you want to drink Fosters...you'll need to bring some with you. Contrary to what your TV ads tell you no-one over here drinks it. I don't even know anywhere that sells it.

No different to drinking your own urine. Mahatma Gandhi highly recommends Fosters