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Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So a couple of weeks to catch up on, i'll try and keep in brief....
Melbourne was great, i gave it a second chance and really liked it!! The art gallery was pretty good, some good video instillations and an interesting trainer exhibition, but still wasn't as good as Christchurch, NZ! We soaked up the Melbourne vibe with some very entertaining street theatre in federation square and must of sat there too long because i ended up helping the entertainer by throwing him one of his juggling things...which i did quite well!!! The highlight though was always going to be ..... The Neighboours tour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so much fun, so corney and cheesy, check out the pics. The street is tiny and not actually called Ramsey street, it was so cool, we got told lots of Neightbours anicdotes and the up coming story lines....my lips are sealed though!! I would recomed it to anyone who gets to Melbourne, and go on a tuesday cos thats when they film there!! Unfortunatly for us they had stopped filming over the christmas period so we didn't see any but it did mean we could roam the street freely!!
After Melbourne we made our way back to Batemans Bay for Christmas. We wanted to go surfing on christmas morning but there was a huge storm so when we got to the surf beach it was really rough and massive waves!! So we went to Caseys Bay and had a swim there where it was abit calmer. Then we had a massive BBQ by the beach and ate far too much, I had to stop eating way before Al did though, I thought he would burst! It seems every one goes to the beach on christmas day over here, there were so many familys bbqing or going for a swim ect, even though it wasn't that warm. Then boxing day and the beaches got even busier!! We went to go for a surf agin hoping it would have calmed down, it had a bit so i went in....only to get severly bashed about for about 10mins before i gave up, there was really strong undercurrnts which made it impossible for me(cos i'm not very good) but at least i tried!!!
Between Xmas and New year we travelled quite far because the weather wasn't good enough for anything else and found the place where we spent new year. We spent new years eve day at the beach swimming, surfing and sunbathing and we planned to stay there in the evening too. But at about 7 a police car came round and warned us that the beach was about to get an influx of drunk youngsters and that our car and surfboards might get damaged but they were very nice and told us a quieter beach nearby we could stay at. As we left that beach a massive storm started and carried on at intervals throughtout the night so we spent alot of nye in the car, with a couple of trips down the beach when the rain subsided! still it was fun and i had a horrible hangover on New years day and we just milled around the beach for the day then had a massive bbq in the evening when i felt better!
Now we're heading up the coast agin looking for more places to surf and hoping we'll get up to the Great Barrier reef and whitsundays for some snorkling!
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