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Prepaid Australia SIM Cards for GSM cellular phones

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Prepaid SIM Cards Frequently Asked Questions Buyer's Guide

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to go with this card!

The prepaid SIM card for Australia is easily the least expensive solution for making and receiving cellular phone calls while you are in Australia. ALL incoming calls, regardless of their origin, are always, absolutely FREE! Outgoing rates, as outlined below, are extremely inexpensive as well. And since these cellular phone cards are prepaid, there is no need for a contract.

Having a cellular phones while travelling internationally is indispensable in terms of security and convenience, and with a prepaid Australia SIM card, it is now also affordable! We also offer other overseas destinations. Click here to view our complete list of prepaid SIM cards!

Features:

  • FREE incoming calls - always!
  • Low rates within Australia and overseas, including international calls to the US and Europe as low as US $0.27/min
  • An Optus SIM card (Network Access Card)
  • An Australian cellular phone number
  • Complete with FREE airtime worth US $21.00
  • Calls charged at 30 second intervals
  • Free Voicemail
  • No yearly contract, monthly charges or credit check

note: Country specific SIM cards can only be used with GSM cellular phones. You will need to rent or purchase one of our unlocked GSM phones designed for overseas use.

Call from the US to your Overseas SIM CARD number at SUPER-LOW RATES with International Calling!

SIM cards that are opened are non-refundable.


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Activating Your Service:

  • Put the Optus SIM card into your mobile phone
  • Be sure that battery is charged
  • Turn on your phone and dial 555 from your mobile phone
  • An Optus operator will then fully activate your service
  • Start calling

Customer service for your Australia Mobile prepaid SIM card is available 24 hr./day by dialing 555 at any time from your Australia cellular phone.

When calling overseas from the United States to your Australia cell phone number, callers will need to dial 011 followed by the country code 61 and then your Australia cell phone number. To call abroad from your Australia cell phone, simply dial 00 followed by the country code and phone number.


Adding Talk Time:

To credit/add airtime to your Optus SIM chip, you will need to purchase recharge cards which are available at most convenient stores, tabac shops and petrol stations, conveniently located throughout Australia. They are available in A$30 (US $20), A$50 (US $32) and A$100 (US $65) denominations.

Recharge airtime vouchers are available at face value and so an A$30 airtime voucher will cost you A$30 in Australia and subsequently will credit your Australia SIM card for A$30.

To credit your prepaid SIM card load with the airtime voucher simply:

  • Scratch off the silver/grey covering to reveal the 10 digit code
  • Dial 555 from your Australia cell phone
  • Enter the 10 digit code when prompted
  • A voice prompt will confirm your new balance

Rates:

Domestic rates and International calls are billed at $.74 AUD ($.60 USD) per minute. All incoming calls regardless of where they originate are free with your Optus Australia SIM card.

When you register in Australia you will have a choice between 2 calling plans: "Free Call" and "30 for 10 Nite" We suggest you choose the 30for10. You will be paying $.48 (A$.74)/minute at all other times not described in the rate plan promotion.

Australia Domestic Rates (per minute)
Plan National Rate Rate Plan Promotion
Free Call A$.74 (US $0.60) Anytime, 24 hours, 7 days
Make free calls to Optus Pre-Paid customers in Australia with your Free Calls Anytime minutes. You'll get 300 minutes for starters, and more every time you recharge: A$30 recharge card = 300 Free Calls Anytime Minutes or A$50 recharge card = 500 Free Calls Anytime Minutes
30 for 10 Nite A$.74 (US $0.60) 8pm - 7am, Everyday
30¢ for 10 minutes to any mobile or home phone within Australia

There is a setup fee of A$.25 (US$0.19)/outgoing call

SMS text messages are A$.25 (US$.16)/each

International rates are per minute for international outgoing calls within Australia from your Australia SIM card while you are in Australia. All incoming calls regardless of where they originate are free with your Optus Australia SIM card.

Australia International Rates (per minute)
Country Rate
USA A$.37 (US $0.27)
Canada A$.42 (US $0.27)
United Kingdom A$.36 (US $0.23)
Germany A$.52 (US $0.34)


Service Life:

With Optus Pre-Paid Mobile, even when you have used all your call credits, you get an extra 180 days of incoming calls for free. During this time, you must recharge your service to recommence making outgoing calls. If you fail to recharge your service after this time your service will be terminated, and your mobile phone number withdrawn.


Coverage:

Cellular coverage in Australia is excellent, far exceeding typical cellular coverage in the US.

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Australian Outdoors: Plants, Animals, Birds and Places to go

Australia is an absolute paradise for those looking for encounters with exotic animals or plant life like none other in the world. Since it has been an isolated continent for approximately 50 million years, the plants and animals have been able to develop unusual and intriguing characteristics while trying to survive in a challenging, unique habitat. Forests cover five per cent of Australia's land mass, and it has amazingly picturesque green regions, many of which are easily accessible from various big cities.

In these forests you can see some of Australia's 20,000 species of plants, including amazing living fossils like the Wollemi pine and the grass tree, as well as vibrant carpets of some of the 12,000 species of wild flowers that bloom in this continent. Or you could watch animals like the platypus, the kangaroo, wallabies, possums, bandicoots---the list is almost endless, and includes fascinating marine animals like sea lions, seals, whales and dolphins, and you could even possibly interact with some of them.

The oceans surrounding Australia contains one of the finest examples of marine biodiversity on earth, and host nearly 4,000 varieties of fish, and almost innumerable species of invertebrates, plants and micro-organisms, and almost 80% of Australia's southern marine species are not found anywhere else in the world. These can be seen firsthand at nature resorts on Australian beaches, while swimming and snorkeling around its many beaches.

Australia is home also to around 800 species of birds, 400 of which are only found on the continent. The 55 species of parakeets found here are a riot of color and other birds like large kingfishers, brightly plumed rainbow lorikeets, the staid emus are all a treat to watch, and hearing the boisterous laughter of the kookaburra is an experience you will be unlikely to forget.

In order to protect its wildlife heritage and allow regulated interactions with enthusiasts, Australia has established a number of national parks and protected areas all across the country which help showcase the incredible diversity of flora and fauna with which nature has blessed this continent. Here are a few of the prominent places to visit, but this list is the proverbial tip of the iceberg, because Australia is practically chock full of such places.

Kangaroo Island is a mere half an hour by air from Adelaide or you could opt for the scenic 45-minute ferry ride from the mainland. It contains the sprawling Flinders Chase National Park, where you can watch kangaroos, wallabies, possums, koalas, platypus, fur seals and a variety of birds, including the rare Cape Barren geese. Activities on the island include wildlife observation like watching sea lions, right whales and penguins at Seal Bay beach or bird watching at Lincoln Bay Park and Gawler Ranges Park.

If you like adventure, you could try wading in the wetlands, exploring the longest cave systems at Murrawijinie Caves or walking on the spectacular Nullarbor Plain above them, snorkeling near the coasts, or scuba diving. For those who want to take it easy, there's fishing or farm visits to taste Ligurian honey and sip Chardonnay and Riesling from the local wine producers, or try the fresh lobsters, local cheese and crisp farm produce.

The Blue Mountains near Sydney is one of the recent most World Heritage areas in Australia where you can go for bush walks and see exotic animals like swamp wallabies and myriad species of birds against a background of dramatic canyons, steep valleys, thundering waterfalls and gum forests. You could step into the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden or explore the Jenolan caves. In short, there is more than enough to do at Blue Mountains for a day trip and more. Close to this are the forests of Wollemi Pine that form the Wollemi National Park. If you want to watch Humpback whales in winter, Byron Bay is the place for you where you can also do a spot of surfing, diving, shopping, clubbing or pubbing.

The Daintree Rainforest north of Cairns in Queensland is an incredible hundred and thirty-five million years old and is remarkably stocked with unique birds, reptiles and marsupials. A spectacular national park, it is a wonderful document of the process of evolution itself. You can enjoy the untouched beauty of a tropical forest, put up at camping sites, go for hiking, trekking trips, picnics, scenic tours, loll about on golden beaches and sample local cuisine.

A completely captivating sight at sunrise and sunset, Uluru(Ayers Rock) is an enormous monolith at the absolute heart of Australia. Rising majestically out of the desert, it has been held in great veneration by the aboriginals throughout living memory, and aboriginal beliefs do not recommend climbing the rock. In fact, only the very fit should even attempt it, because heart attacks while climbing the rock are not uncommon. The paintings in the surrounding caves will fascinate you or you could explore the surrounding smaller monoliths called the Kata Tjuta (The Olgas). In sum, the Uluru and its surroundings are a feast of visual delight.

The Great Barrier Reef is a 2000km long structure that hosts a carnival of corals, polyps, sea urchins and an array of marine life unparalleled anywhere in the world. Snorkeling, scuba-diving, watching coral and marine life in a semi-submersible and a host of other activities make this a paradise on earth for all sea-life enthusiasts. Ningaloo Reef is the smaller than the Great Barrier, but is quite spectacular as well, and you can swim with a whale shark in its aquamarine waters. You can spot Humpback whales and manta rays here or head over to Shark bay to meet its bottle nosed dolphins at Monkey Mia and catch a glimpse of school sharks and dugongs.

Fraser Island, Rottnest Island and a host of other beaches like Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island, Cable Beach near Broome in WA, Four Mile Beach near Port Douglas in Queensland will have you entranced with their sunny weather, astonishing surf, sapphire blue waters and an overwhelming choice of outdoor activities.

Other places worth a visit are the Kakadu National Park, with its spectacular waterfalls, sandstone embankments and abundance of wildlife, including extraordinary birds from jabirus, to magpie geese and egrets. The temperate rainforest combined with alpine trees in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage shelter a host of rare and endangered species of wildlife, from the Tasmanian devil and pademelons, to oystercatchers and pelicans. Fur seals, dolphins and whales can be spotted along the coasts.

And if you are headed towards Western Australia, you can’t miss the Bungle Bungle Range, in Purnululu National Park, a geological site with orange and black stripes of silica and algae across beehive-like mounds, deep gorges and hidden pools. All of Australia is dotted with nature preserves, and a genuine nature lover would never run out of wildlife destinations on this continent---Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve near Canberra, the Moreton Island near Brisbane--- the list just goes on.

Tips for wildlife watching:

  • Keep recommended distance from wild animals, do not deviate from specified roads, and do not feed animals in the wild.
  • Do not deplete the environment, especially the coral reefs, because they cannot be easily replenished.
  • Take all precautions against insects and other critters; Australia has a host of venomous animals and insects. It is the only country in the world with more venomous than non-venomous snakes, and is home to the deadly Taipans and brown snakes.
  • Before going for a swim, make sure it is safe to do so, because there are saltwater crocodiles in the inland waters, and box jellyfish, sharks, stonefish and an assortment of other poisonous creatures in the seas around Australian coasts.
  • Be aware of the nature of wildlife you can expect in an area by reading written matter or browsing the internet, before you plan a trip.
  • Cape Tribulation-where the rainforest meets the ocean

    By: Sathya Balan - [travel] Posted 01/17/06

    Cape Tribulation is one of the few places where the two World Heritage sites of Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef meet. Its naming has a delightful history. First sighted by James Cook in June 1770 from aboard the HM Barque Endeavour, it was named ''Cape Tribulation because here began all our troubles''. It was here that Endeavour ran aground the reef, now named Endeavour Reef, from where it somehow limped to the Endeavour River where it lay for months for repair. Today the area is part of 17,000 hectare Cape Tribulation National Park. Century later George Dalrymple named a river passing deep into the tropical valley after his geologist friend Richard Daintree. Agriculture was attempted but did not succeed much; what attracted the eyes of Dalrymple and others after him were the huge stands of red cedars. But the beauty of the valley was evident to him as to everyone else: ''The river valley is here surrounded by a panorama of great beauty..a perfect picture of rich tropical country..'' The loss of cedars and other tropical trees of this old forest resulted in much destruction, and after much protests from environmentalists, the area is now protected and regulated.

    There are a dozen and more things one can do while in this tropical paradise. There are about four celebrated short walks: the Jindalba 'foot of the mountain' loop, the Marrdja rainforest, the Dubuji 'place of spirits' and the Kulki. Apart from them there is the longer and more difficult Mt Sorrow Ridge Walk which will take you on a 7 Km mountain and forest trek. It takes you up a rainforest ridge of Mt Sorrow to a lookout at an elevation of 650 m. From the lookout on a clear day the beautiful Daintree coastline can be seen stretching southwards to Snapper Island and beyond, and the shadow of the Great Barrier Reef can be glimpsed in the sea below the horizon. Commercial operators provide guided and talk tours to various nearby areas. If you are in the mood for a picnic, there are picnic tables with bathrooms at Jindalba, Dubuji and Kulki. Dubuji even has barbeque facilities. Fishing is a very popular activity, and except for Cooper Creek, one can do fishing in all creeks of the Cape Tribulation section of the Daintree National Park. For those inclined towards nature, the Daintree provides one of the world's best museum - this 140 million years old park is home to most of the world's 19 primitive plant families. Rare animals include Bennett's tree-kangaroo, which is found only in the lowland and upland rainforests north of the Daintree River, Daintree River ringtail possum and Southern Cassowary. Some birds migrate to the area from New Guinea in summer to breed. These include the buff-breasted Paradise-kingfisher, with its very long tail, and Pied Imperial-pigeons, which arrive in large flocks.

    The Great Barrier Reef is connected to Cape Tribulation, providing an easy access to those who want to venture into the reef. There are beautiful deserted beaches that go for miles upon unending miles.

    Cape Tribulation is situated in between Cairns to the south and Port Douglas to the north, from where you can travel via the Cook Highway. Thereafter you can take the Daintree ferry ride. There is an unsealed road north of Cape Tribulation to Bloomfield which is suitable for only four-wheel drive vehicles. A few accommodations are available within Cape Tribulation itself, but an alternative option is to stay in Cairns and arrive at the Cape for a day trip. Executive Retreats provides handsome lodging facilities for all types of tourist needs.

    Produced by the team at www.travelAU.com.au - a group of travel and technology industry professionals promoting unique Australian tourism and travel products, produced this article on behalf of http://www.executiveretreats.com.au. You are permitted to republish this article, provided the references to the http://www.travelau.com.au and http://www.executiveretreats.com.au remain intact.


    Rail Tales from South Australia

    by

    Keith Kellett

    Once upon a time, there was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman …

    Many a joke has started that way, and it’s also how Australian railway history began. The Englishman was the unnamed Government official who suggested that the still-to-be-built national railway system should be constructed to the standard 4’8½" gauge, as used in the Mother Country.

    But, at that stage, the Australian states were, in effect, countries in their own right … and growing children aren’t noted for listening to Mother. That’s where the Irishman came in, one F.W Shields, a railway engineer employed by the Government of New South Wales. He advised, probably correctly, that the 5’3" gauge, as used in Ireland, would be more serviceable for the loads and distances involved.

    The Governments of South Australia and Victoria agreed, and followed suit by planning their railways to the ‘Irish’ gauge. However, Shields was replaced by a Scotsman named Wallace, and, following his advice, New South Wales adopted the 4’8½" gauge. The other two States, feeling that their plans were too advanced to change, retained the 5’3" gauge.

    Meanwhile, South Australia was also building a network of 3’6" gauge ‘country railways’, intended mainly for carrying farm produce and other freight. The narrow gauge was chosen as being inexpensive to construct and to operate, thus keeping freight costs down … passengers were carried, but their comfort wasn’t really a high priority.

    When the Australian States joined in 1901, to form the Commonwealth of Australia, Western Australia demanded a rail link with the other States as a condition of joining. Thus was born Commonwealth Railways, operating from Sydney to Perth on the New South Wales standard gauge metals … giving South Australia separate systems in three gauges!

    It’s a complicated story, and, in summarising it here, I may well have sacrificed a little accuracy in the interests of conciseness. The place to find the whole story, graphically illustrated, is at the National Railway Museum, in Port Adelaide. The Museum is in Lipson Street, on the site of the former Port Dock Railway Station, to where it relocated from Mile End in 1988.

    Locomotives and rolling stock from bygone days are displayed in three undercover locations. In the Goods Shed, a mainly volunteer work-force carries out restoration work on exhibits; the Main Pavilion incorporates a Break of Gauge platform, as well as several side exhibitions, such as Women in the Railways, Operations and Signals and Railway Development. Around all runs a 457mm (18 inch) gauge miniature railway, which is steam-hauled at week-ends and holiday times.

    The Commonwealth Railway Museum is in a separate shed, and part of its display is devoted to the legendary Ghan railway. This was a 3’6" gauge steam-hauled line, built in 1929, originally intended to carry passengers from Adelaide to Darwin but which, in fact, terminated at Alice Springs, almost in the centre of the country.

    The train took its strange name from the ‘Afghan’ (actually Pakistani) camel-drivers who pioneered the route. The two-day ride to ‘Alice’ in the wooden carriages, which usually had an open platform at each end, was always regarded as something of an adventure. The intense heat, flash flooding and termites eating the wooden sleepers (cross-ties) often delayed trains, sometimes for several days. By 1982, the track had deteriorated so badly that the trains, by now diesel-hauled, were discontinued. The track was abandoned, apart from the stretch between Port Augusta and Quorn, in the Flinders Ranges. This section has been restored, and operates as a tourist attraction by the Pichi Richi Railway company, to give a flavour of what rail travel was like in ‘the good old days’.

    But, that was by no means the end of the Ghan. Alice Springs is now served by a twice-weekly service over a standard-gauge track laid to the west of the old line. The New Ghan offers sleeper accommodation in two classes, ‘Gold Kangaroo’ and ‘Red Kangaroo’, as well as ‘sit-up’ accommodation for those on a budget.

    The train also incorporates car transporters, so that passengers can take their cars with them; in the old narrow-gauge days, these, with any heavy baggage, would be brought on a second train called the Chaser, which followed some time later.

    And, since 1st February, 2004, Alice Springs is no longer the end of the line. It’s been continued northward to the northern port of Darwin, which was, up to now, isolated by rail from the rest of Australia. The new line offers the opportunity for passengers to take sight-seeing side trips at Katherine and Alice Springs; these will be free to Gold Kangaroo passengers, and available at extra cost to those in Red Kangaroo.

    I was recently lucky enough to visit Adelaide’s Keswick Rail Terminal, and be shown over the Ghan, which was being readied for departure. The station carried an air of excited anticipation, even among the staff, as the train prepared to leave on one of the world’s great rail journeys – which, with the new extension to Darwin in service, promises to become even greater!


    Kangaroo Island

    Kangaroo Island, or ‘KI’, as it’s known locally, is more noted for what it hasn’t got than for what it has. Unlike mainland Australia, rabbits and foxes were never introduced, so the indigenous wildlife has less competition for survival.

    Another thing the island doesn’t have is something a Scottish friend once called ‘The Way of the Island’. There’s no sense of being on an island; in many places, you can climb to a high point and see nothing but ‘bush’ in any direction.

    That catches many visitors out, when they arrive with the idea of walking or cycling around the island. It’s really too big for that. There’s little in the way of public transport, and the only practicable ways to get around are either to sign up for an organised tour, or bring or hire a car.

    If, as we did, you bring a car, it means a very early start from Adelaide, for a 3 hour drive to Cape Jervis, on the southern tip of South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula, to catch the 8 o’clock ferry for the 45 minute trip to Penneshaw, the island’s ferry port.

    But, for those in a hurry, with transport on the island arranged, it’s only a short flight from Adelaide.

    Kingscote, the island’s main town, lies on the western shore of Nepean Bay, opposite Penneshaw. Most of the older buildings in both towns have red tin roofs and shady verandas, often decorated with elaborate wrought-ironwork, giving a folksy, Norman Rockwell-ish atmosphere.

    On a jetty near Kingscote, I photographed almost tame cormorants and pelicans. Penneshaw and Kingscote both have penguin burrows nearby, where Little Penguins sleep, breed and bring up their young. But, there’s little to see by daylight. Notices around the burrows inform visitors that the penguins spend the daylight hours out at sea feeding, and only come ashore at night, when access to the burrows is only permitted in the company of a National Park Ranger.

    Although we couldn’t stay until dark, I did check it out, as there’s sometimes a chance of finding an occasional penguin who doesn’t read notices.

    The island’s main road, the Playford Highway, heads westward from Nepean Bay until it meets the West End Highway in the middle of nowhere. The West End Highway heads south; the Playford Highway continues westward as a dirt road to Cape Borda, where there’s a lighthouse, a few former light keepers’ cottages, a National Park Visitor Centre and not much else. Except stunning scenery, of course.

    Much of the island is farmland; lamb and beef from Kangaroo Island are especially prized. Fruit is also a major export … but the grapes in the vineyards are turned into very acceptable wine first.

    19 National Parks and Conservation Areas cover over 30% of the island’s area, and the largest of them lies to the south-west of the island, where the Flinders Chase National Park covers 32,600 hectares of bush-land. Entry is by permit, which we bought at the Park entrance at Rocky River. There, we wondered if the Park authorities had the wildlife trained for we saw a family of kangaroos right in the car park by the Park office … but they only appeared after we’d paid the entrance fee!

    Probably the best-known feature in the Park is the Remarkable Rocks. These are huge granite boulders on an exposed headland, which the elements have sculpted into fantastic shapes. Not far away lies Cape du Couédic, with its spectacular lighthouse standing amid weathered limestone rocks covered in wild flowers. Nearby are the two outlying Casaurina Islets – which will become three in a few millennia, when the wave-worn Admiral’s Arch, below the lighthouse, collapses. Meantime, it offers safe refuge for New Zealand Fur Seals to bask, and be observed from a respectful distance.

    On the way to the Kangaroo Island Wilderness lodge, where we were staying, we called at Seal Bay to get really close up to the seals, under the supervision of a Ranger. But, there were no seals there, but plenty of Australian Sea Lions. But then, few people come to Kangaroo Island just to see kangaroos ... ‘You can see roos anywhere, sport!’ … so it seems fair to go to Seal Bay and not see seals.

    An unexpected feature is Kelly Hill Cave, a limestone grotto with a mind-blowing display of stalactites and stalagmites, including an extremely rare ‘fish-hook’ stalactite. This formation exists only in a handful of places, all in the Southern Hemisphere … and geologists are still trying to work out how it came about.

    There’s lots of wildlife on ‘KI’. Not counting roadkill, we spotted kangaroos, echidnas, goannas and koalas. We missed out on the elusive platypus, though. We hiked around the pools they frequent, but were told that there was so much water in the creek from recent rains, they would be almost impossible to find.

    But, that’s the way of Kangaroo Island. There’s wildlife here, but it’s not going to look for you; you must seek it out. And that’s the way it should be … half the fun is in the looking, and it makes the finding far more exciting. If you’d have it any other way, you may as well just go to the zoo.






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