Me and Dave we're kindly invited round to Charlotte's distant family's house today for some dinner today, so the 3 of us all piled in the car round to Mary and Larry's home, about a 45 min drive outside of Brisbane. Even though Charlotte was a little bit unsure about the way we were going, we managed to get there! They live in a gorgeous big house, a swimming pool and 3 cats that look like they belong in the James Bond films. It was too cold to go for a dip th...

Had the day to ourselves as Charlotte and our hosts were going to a wedding, so we chilled out in the house for the morning. In the afternoon we went to Nudgee Beach for a look round. It wasn't a white sandy sunbathe style beach, but a huge wet black sand style beach - a bit like Morecombe, but cleaner. We were fascinated by some green worm/centipede type creatures that were curling round anything that passed by them. We didnt dare get too close though, as kn...

The black little monster kindly woke us up this morning by again diving full length onto the tent and not giving up until we let him inside, where he jumped around a bit - obviosly enjoying our frustration! Unfortunately, there is no way it can be fixed so Charlotte took us to a nearby shop so we could begrudgingly by a new home! Oh well, Dave didnt like the old one anyway. We all got suited up after dinner as it was time to hit the racecourse for our 'day at ...

Woke up nice and early, but with a bit of a sore head. Charlotte was going to give us a driving tour of Brisbane going over the Storey Bridge, one of the major sites of Brisbane. Once again, though Charlotte's navigation skills weren't too good and we got a very erratic tour of the city with a very stressed Charlotte not being able to find the huge bridge. About an hour of aimless driving later, we managed to get some directions and we finally crossed th Sto...

We waited around town until about 2pm when we finally got the call we had been waiting for. Frank had survived the tranmission transplant, he was a fighter and he pulled through! The mechanic came and picked us up and put us back on the road obviously after we had paid at which point we are sure that we heard the credit card actually scream with pain when it was put throught the machine. We had planned to camp at a site just North of Brisbane but as we were gett...