Can't believe I am back in Sydney and more to the point, that it's my last week in Australia, where has the last 3 months gone??? I know that I have done loads and can at least leave feeling like I have done it proud, seeing almost all of Oz minus Tasmania and north of Carnarvon on the west coast - both things I plan to come back and do at some point. So time now just to catch up with friends and finally do the Sydney harbour bridge climb, many thanks to the ma...

And so commence the injesting of salt water, the bruising, the laughing, the aching and the fun that is the mojo 5 day surf tour in our crazy big black and pink bus. We were so lucky to have only 10 people on the tour this week, a tour that can sometimes have 50 people on it!! well actually we had 11 if you count our multi-talented bus driver and surf instructor ANT - even so it was all good! Our week was split in 2. Firstly, 2 nights at Spot X our first surf de...

DAY14 - Merry Beach to Blue Mountains (327km) An early morning as lots of driving to do today! I bounce out of bed full of beans, much to the annoyance of Billy as I drag him onto the beach for a swim at 7am! So we set off for the blue mountains to meet Linds and Keith very sad to be leaving what felt like a mini holiday destination of Merry Beach behind. I got very bored today in the car, wrote my journal, painted my nails, sang into my hairbrush and finally we...

DAY7 - Melbourne to Phillip Island (163km) With all of our washing done, some free time on the internet and a hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs (many thanks to Mark and Cath) off we head to Phillip Island in search of the Baby Penguins... Sadly it wasn't all it is advertised to be we could only just make them out waddling up the beach. Probably not disappointing for the owners though as there were probably about 2,000 tourists so takings of $40,000, not bad fo...