Dec 1st 2011 Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island Can't believe it's December! It's weird as it's so warm. It's officially the first day of summer here. We had a very quick look around our resort - we were on the banks of an inletwith sandy coastline. We then headed north on the Bruce Highway for 200km to River Heads to catch the ferry to Fraser Island. It was quite a boring drive really with alternating bush & farmland - nothing worthy of note!! Transfer w...

30th Nov 2011 Yummy cooked breakfast then packed up quickly & went down to reception. Who should be there but the whole Australian cricket team in their team colours & cricket bats etc!!! They kick off a match against NZ tomorrow in Brisbane!!!! They got into 2 minibuses to do a spot of practising I expect! We left our luggage at reception & went for a walk about. Just behind the hotel is a park called Southbank Parklands. Here there is a manmade be...

Nov 29th 2011 Headed north on the Pacific Hwy through the Tweed Valley . Drove through some bushland where Koala numbers were being monitored. Also farm land with cattle & lots of sugar cane. Turned off onto Gold Coast Highway. Stopped at Tweed Heads Point Danger. Parked overlooking the sea - -vast golden sands with swimmers & surfers. There's a very attractive modern memorial erected for the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Eastern Australia by Cap...

Nov 24th 2011 Still RAINING - -not stopped since we arrived - how depressing. We're here for the scenery which is just hidden by rain & fog - - -weired combination. Perhaps it's low cloud & rain. Thank goodness there was a cheerie msg from Beth this morning to say that she had really good feedback from her observed lesson. Just the tonic we needed!! We decided that we would do the trip to the temperate rain forest & Katumba Falls anyway. The funicula...

Nov 18th 2011 Bit of a lie in today - -left our accommodation at 10am. Had a look around Kiama. What a beautiful place - -some rocky coast but also lovely bays with golden sand. Saw the 'blow hole' - this WAS what we thought a blow hole should be like. The promontory was made of volcanic latite and basalt. As the basalt is softer, over millions of years, it gets weathered away eventually creating a cave with a hole in the 'roof'. Although there wasn't much of a ...