After a quick shopping trip to Surfers (where we took in the great views of the coast from the observation deck of the worlds tallest residential building, Q1 Building), we head south to Byron Bay. Now Byron, like Phi Phi in Thaliand, is a place where the young and beautiful come to see and be seen. Once again, I was waiting for the Ugly Police to come along and tell us to "move along....we don't want your kind around here" but it never happened!!(I can...

OK, I know absolutely nothing about surfing (and my one and only attempt at it was terrible), but who could pass up seeing the Quicksilver Pro surfing mens finals (especially when it's being held just down the road from your hostel)?? So we did! The surf wasn't great and we had to sometimes wait ages for any decent waves, but it was good fun. Some bloke called Kelly Slater won it (apparently he's the 8 times World Champion)!! More walking in Lamingtion National...

The first day of our ROAD TRIP south to Melbourne, and boy is it going to be a quick trip - over 2000 kms to cover in 12 days! At least we've got a decent car, a Subaru Forrester 4WD thingy...much better than the Ford Laser we had in Albany!First stop, Glasshouse Mountains, a quick detour to the north of Brisbane. Wonderful scenery - it's great to see lush greens (more so than at the Gloucester Tree in WA) after so many weeks of parched landscapes.Our hostel is i...

We've moved from the (dry) 37 degrees of Perth to the (humid) 28 degrees of Brisbane (also known as BrisVegas) - I don't which is worse!! I haven't stopped sweating yet! :o(

Back in Perth we were fortunate enough to be able to stay at Dave and Marnie's. God was it nice not to have to stay in a hostel for a few days?!They were great hosts - drinks in Fremantle finished by karaoke one night, a true Aussie BBQ the next (complete with Ali getting his chest waxed), followed by a lovely roast dinner! Hmmmmm!In between all this eating, we managed a (very) quick day trip over to Rottnest Island where we saw a few Quokkas (the cute marsupials...