The Bucket list AUSTRALIA

The Bucket list AUSTRALIA

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The Bucket list Australia

1. See the citylights from Perth come to life at the Dryandra lookout and convince the people that  you are waiting till the clock strikes midnight to become a werewolf.

2. Hug a koala in a rehabilitation center and ask the employee if you are getting chlamydia now?

3. Make the traditional dish from your country and share it with your new hostel friends.

4. Go on a roadtrip with a random stranger you met on a Facebook group.

5. Eat a pie for breakfast without vomiting.

6. Overtake a road train while waving at the truck driver.

7. Cross the Fitzroy crossing while playing the final countdown theme song.

8. Eat a bounty on a bounty island notably Whitsundays.

9. Sing “down under” from Men at work in a karaoke bar.

10. Go snorkeling with whale sharks.

11. Feed a joey and talk to it as it is your baby.

12. Take the instagrammable nature’s window picture in Kalbarri. Post it on the gram and ask your followers if you are already insta-famous.

13. Drive the Nullarbor and the 90 mile straight.

14. Go for a movie in the open-air cinemas in BROOME. Duck dive whenever a plane flies over.

15. Take a surf lesson in Byron Bay and convince people you are the new Kelly Slater.

16. Visit the capital Canberra and ask 5 random strangers if this is the capital, Sydney.

17. Eat a milky way under the milky way in Karijini eco retreat.

18. Go camping on Fraser Island.

19. Cross the Gibbs River.

20. Go on a wine tasting in Margaret River and ask the sommelier if they serve any French wine.

21. Moo like a cow whenever you see one.

22. Hitchhike! The person who takes you needs to drive a uth and yes you need to sit in the back.

23. Sleep in your car.

24. Hike up to Bluff Knoll for sunrise. Picture or it didn’t happen.

25. Go for a “stroll” to Frenchman peak.

26. Sing loudly “Torn” from Natalia Imbruglia whenever you stand for a red light ( Yes she is born in Australia).

27. Complain about the fish and chips and give them the perfect recipe.

28. Jump in one of the gorges in Karijini NP.

29. Shower under the waterfall in Fern pool and sing your favorite shower song.

30. Go diving in the great barrier reef and convince the instructor that you are hydrofobic. .

31. Take a dip in Buley Rockhole. Ask a random stranger: “Did you feel that?” Was that a crocodile? Picture of his/ her face or it didn’t happen.

32. Take a scenic flight somewhere in Australia. No worries you’ll find them everywhere.

33. Climb the Dave Evans tree in Pemberton and do a happy dance on top.

34. Take a quokka selfie on Rottnest Island

35. Feed an emu and give him a name. Mine named Elmo!

36. Say yes to everything for one day.

37. Fart in Mataranka hot spring and tell the person next to you that this is a jacuzzi not a hot spring.

38. Go on a tinder/bumble date and till your date that you are a gold digger from Tennant Creek.

39. Eat corn in Quorn Australia while watching the silo show. Yell to the car next to you that this is life.

40. Sing the theme song from the Royal Flying Doctors on the airstrip from the Nullarbor while you are imitating an airplane.

41. Sing the theme song of home and away while walking at palm beach Australia.

42. Visit the horizontal falls and ask the captain when you are going to fall.

43. Take aboat ride and stand on the front deck arms wide-open yelling you are the King/ Queen of the world. Bonus point for those who ask a random stranger to stand behind them like in the titanic scene.

44. Convince a random stranger that mount Connor is the real Ayers Rock (they call it fool-uru for a reason).

45. Take the scenic road between Nannup and Balingup and sing only Disney songs.

46. Sleep in an underground cave in Coober Pedy and ask the hotel owner where the gnomes live.

47. Fake that your car broke down and ask everybody that wants to help you for a dollar. Tell them that not the car broke but that you are broke. Donate the money to charity.

48. Take the Puffing Billy railway and imitate the sound of a train for 5 minutes (sit the right side facing the locomotive for the best views). TIP: This is the only train ride in the world where you official can hang out the train.

49. Drink a beer at Daly Waters pub and tell a random stranger that you were 5 years sober till now.

50. Go on a snorkeling tour in the Ningaloo reef and ask the constructor if they can help you to get an invitation at Nemo’s house.

51. Jump 5 minutes like a kangaroo-on-kangaroo island. Ask random strangers if they know where you can find your family members.

52. Visit Wolfe Creek and ask the person next to you if they know where you can find Mick.

53. Sing an aria from an opera in front of the opera house in Sydney.

54. When you enter WA via land ask customs if you can take your tomato. Tell them thatIt is important because it is your service vegetable, and you get anxiety disorder without it.

55. Get out of the car when there are roadworks. Do the macarena in front of the worker withThe stop sign and ask him or her to join you. Bonus point if they do.

56. Shake hands with a random stranger at the airport and tell him that you are so grateful they could pick you up.

57. Streak on the red center road for at least one minute. Picture or it didn’t happen.

58. Sing the Alice! (Who the fuck is Alice) song on top of the Alice spring sign.

59. Imitate a sea lion while swimming with sea lions on Essex rocks.

60. Act like a care bear looking for a pot of gold every time you see rainbow

61. Sit in a shopping cart while you are shopping In woolies.

62. Blow a bell with a pink bubblegum in front of Hutt lagoon.

63. Drink a cocktail in a bar in front of the Sydney opera house and tell the person next to you that you are a desperate housewife/ houseman.

64. Take a dip in Injidup Natural spa and ask a random passerby if they know when the massage therapist is coming.

65. Go to the drive -in theatre in Coober Pedy and ask all the cars on the first row if they know where the toilets are.

66. Go to the Gold coast beach with a shovel and dig a well. Ask 10 random strangers if they know where to look for gold.

67. Buy a package of Tim tams and share all the cookies within with your new hostel friends. Tell them your name is Tim and you want to share the tam. Then walk away.

68. Roadtrip down the Great Ocean Road and ask in the coffee shop near the 12 apostles whoKidnapped 7 of the 5 apostles.

69. Take a magnet and look for your imaginative wedding ring on magnetic island.

70. Skydive with a beach landing.

71. write your wish and put it in a bottle. Leave this in a random city and hope your wish comes true.

72. Pretend you are a top-notch surfer at the wave rock in your swimwear.

73. Go for a bath experience with incredible views at the burrows in Swansea Tasmania.

74. Drink a glas of wine in wineglass bay.

75. Bring out your best David Hasselhoff / Pamela Anderson lifeguard skills in front of the Brighton bathing boxes.

76. Go to Holey Moley for a game of glow in the dark minigolf. Wear a Harry potter cape and pretend you are Harry Putter.

78. Go to a cricket game fully dressed in the colors of the team. Add a bonus point for those who paint their faces in the team’s color.

79. Go to a restaurant that serves Pavlova. Order the dish and ask the chef if this is theNew Zealand recipe because you’ve heard it’s the best one.

80. Take the 4wd trail up to Mount Nameless and yell on top of the mountain. Hello Mountain! What’s your name. Gina is this you ?!

81. Attend a derby and ask if lucky luck ever attended the derby in town.

82. Map every public urination and poo in the country on maps and make it public. Don’t forget to use the poo emoticon.

83. Hike to Cradle Mountain summit without underwear. Tell everybody you pass that you don’t wear underwear on doctors’ advice for your hemorrhoids.

84. Go to Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve with your head wrapped in thin foil. Tell everybody that this wasn’t a meteorite who hit land but an alien attack that kept as a secret by the government.

85. Go snorkeling with humpback whales and ask a noodle after you jumped into theWater. Tell them you forgot how to swim.

86. Ride the famous camels in Broome. Ask your guide if they import them on foot or byPlane from Egypt.

87. The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan is the Australian native plant garden of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and covers 416 hectares. Ask at the cafe if you can water them all. Bonus point for those who carry a water can.

88. Sandboard in Jurien Bay with a turban on your head.

89. Walk like a pinguin-on-pinguin island and tell everybody that you feel a strong connection on this island.

90. Enjoy the moment at the Grampians (It doesn’t have to be silly all the time).

91. Drink a Byron Bay beer in Byron Bay. Ask someone if the know the water they use comes from the bay.

92. Do the spider walk in Hancock gorge. Picture or it didn’t happen.

93. Make a video of you reviewing the public toilet facilities in a national park.

94. Eat a lavender ice-cream in Bridestowe Lavender Estate and ask if they also sell it in pink.

95. Photobomb someone his/ her Ayers rock picture (not difficult at all).

96. Go on a jumping crocodile tour and play Schnappi das kleine krokodil. Ask everyone to sing the chorus along.

97. Go for a ride in Luna Park Melbourne. Post your most ugly picture in front of the gate on Instagram.

98. Ring the bell at a random house and ask them if they saw Harry your huntsman.

99. Spoon a pot of vegemite and tell everybody this is your new addiction.

100. Attend a horse race in a fancy dress or a tux.

101. Take a mining tour in Coober Pedy and ask if you can rent a bird. Tell them that you are afraid of the gas that might be exposed in the mine if they ask you why.

102. Gamble on of the machines in a pub. Yell in the pub that you won the lottery.

103. Send a lazy letter to the home front. You don’t have to write anything if you don’t want. Just write: “I am here. Bye” is enough. In Alice Springs you can buy the lazy letters in the royal flying doctor’s museum for those who only want to color boxes.

104. Turn yourself in at the prison hostel. Tell them you stole a candy as a kid and that you now want to pay your debt. You can also chose to do this in the prison next door. Up to you to decide.

105. Lie on the ground and guess what figures can be seen in the clouds if there are any.

106. Go for a pub quiz with your new friends. Drink 5 shots each if you lose, Drink 10 if you win.

107. Ask someone’s binoculars and tell them you think you saw a person drowning.

108. Fake a marriage proposal to your travel partner in the middle of a CBD. Picture or it didn’t happen.

109. Take a taxi and tell the driver “Follow that car!”Get out where the car in front of you stops and go for a coffee.

110. Visit the shark sanctuary in Coral Bay and sing baby shark every time you enter the water.

111. Go shopping in a Coles supermarket and ask the cashier if he/ she knows when the family condom packs are on sale.

Bonus. Get a couple tattoo with one of your new friends.

HAVE FUN !  

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