Whitsundays to Port Douglas Dec 5th 2011 Airlie Beach Annie's birthday today. Gr8 to see her & Ben &Beth & Barry last night on Skype and be able to speak to them. Cloudy today but warm and not raining as it forcasted. Sat by pool for most of the day - v quiet hardly anyone else around. Pete swam a few lengths. Good to chill out for a while. Wrote some post cards and got George's Christmas presents ready for sending tomorrow. Dec 6th 2011 Journey ...

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...