History: The first packraft appears in 1845 with Lieutenant Peter Halkett of the Royal Navy. But the packrafting known a real turn in 2004 with Alpacka Raft LLC.
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Katoomba is a small town 2 hours by train from Sydney, at the edge of the Blue Mountains cliffs with the famous lookout on the Three Sisters. 3 weeks before my arrival in the New South Wales capital, I decided to live a different experience trough CouchSurfing.
After Townsville and Magnetic Island, we went to Airlie Beach for 5 days. Here, our schedule was busy enough: Stand Up Paddling, Whitsunday Islands, WhiteHaven Beach and Halloween. The accommodation was really disappointing for $20 each (when a hotel or apartment is cancelled because of the weather, we have to pay or own accommodation). Only […]
. After Mission Beach we reached Townsville, the largest tropical city in Queensland. The place is lovely with its marina, its beautiful lookout from Castle Hill and also Magnetic Island you can reach by ferry. It was expensive ($32/person) but the island discovered by Captain Cook and his spinning compass crazy is a really nice […]
Sunday afternoon we reached Mission Beach after our testimonials about Big 4 Atherton Woodlands Cabine and Van Park. Mission Beach is nice but i’m already bored because I’m not in the mountains anymore. After a huge fire pit on the beach under an amazing starry sky , I decide to go back to the villa […]