Monday, April 13, 2009

Wish List for Tangible Goods in Adelaide

Accomodation
Fuel
Vodaphone and Optus prepaid phone credit
Running shoes ladies size 9.5
Swimming goggles
A CD for use in the car to learn a language (For the long long car journeys)
Unusual jobs
A feed
deoderant

Monday, September 8, 2008

Please help us in our quest by donating any of the following items

  1. Fuel: We need to get our hands on fuel along the way. What can we do for you in exchange for petrol? We need fuel cards and jerry cans, remember, we still have the Nullabar to get over. Please send fuel cards to the post office addresses ahead of us or call us to offer jerry cans which we can pick up.
  2. Accomodation, we could always do with a bed alon our journey.
  3. Phone credit. We need a way to phone ahead and find work/beds etc. We have optus and vodafone pre-paid mobiles. Please send to the post office address ahead of us
  4. Jobs in Perth or anywhere South of Perth (We are travelling anti-clockwise around Oz)
  5. Insect repellant; Anne has the kind of ugly reaction to mossy bites that isn't condusive to making new friends.
  6. Sun lotion
  7. Biscuits for Gareth, he gets grumpy without his sugar intake
  8. Cds for drive time
  9. swimming goggles
  10. snorkel masks
  11. deoderant/soap/toothbrushes
  12. Food. We will need as much none perishable fodder as we can carry. If there is one sure fire way making this plan work is if Gareth has a good supply of biscuits and cookies.
  13. Australian literature;history, Aussie authors, etc. We want to learn as much as possible about Australia as we can.
  14. Shout us a beer! We have no way of getting a beer ater a days work!
  15. books about bush tucker/edible shrooms etc or take us out into the bush and teach us!
  16. Camera maintainance: lense cleaner; sensor cleaning kit; lenses for nikon d70s; filters
  17. a copping board and a plate
  18. tapes for jvc mini camcorder
  19. running shoes, at the moment the only footwear we have are thongs with holes in.
  20. Spare thongs, we are always breaking them and wearing mismatched flip-flops!
  21. A Tshirt printing company to design us some shirts
  22. A flyer printing company to design and print us some flyers
  23. A publisher interested in the book about our adventure

Experiences we would love in Australia

  1. To be an extra on Neighbours or visit the film set
    Meet the characters Karl and Susan Kennedy
  2. To photograph Australia from the air
    To visit an aboriginal community
  3. SKydive
  4. Meet Les Higgins
  5. Watch Bush Mechanics
  6. See a rodeo
  7. See a thorny devil
  8. See whales
  9. Swim with dolphins
  10. Try bush food
  11. Visit a mine
  12. Scuba dive
  13. Help build something
  14. Work for a photographer
  15. Australian TV/film extra
  16. See Aussie theatre
  17. Capture fork lightning on camera
  18. Try Aboriginal artwork
  19. Work for Aussie sweets/cake factory
  20. Outdoor rock climbing
  21. Kite surfing
  22. Surf lessons
  23. Wind sailing
  24. Paragliding
  25. visit an Aussie sports event
  26. See a whale shark
  27. see manta rays

Help us! Way in which you can help.

  1. Give your friends this web address
  2. Write a commet somewhere on our website, show us your support, it keeps up our moral when times are hard.
  3. donate
  4. Contact the media for us, the more publicity we get the more donations we can collect
  5. Suggest events, places where we should do some fund raising

If you can help out with any items, we will be happy to hear from you. Please contact us to find out how you can help.

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