Blog Day 185 Mon 7th November 2011 This morning we are woken up by an eager old soul who probably has the most pointless job in the whole of Australia. Blowing leaves with a very loud petrol leaf blower at 7.30 in the morning, around a forest! By 8.30 he had finished his noise making and that's when we surfaced from the van. There was honestly no evidence that he had been there whatsoever! The floor was still covered with leaves! A couple of bacon and egg sarni...

Blog day 184 Sun 6th November 2011 Today we are leaving Dan and Darren and making our way on down the coast. It's been great hanging out with the boys but we have to move on sooner rather than later. Having said that though we are at a bit of a loose end, as we can't afford to do too many touristy things on the way to Melbourne. We also don't really know where we want to stop off on the way or what the main things are to do. Cairns to Sydney seems to be the m...

Blog Day 182 Fri 4th November 2011 The main attraction of Stanwell Park is the hand gliding and paragliding that can be done here. We aren't doing that however for 2 very good reasons. 1 we can afford it and 2 even if we could neither of us fancy slipping into a sleeping bag that's attached to an extra-large kite, and throwing ourselves off the side of a very large hill. Not matter how good the view is! We do however make our way up to Bald Hill (the very lar...

Blog Day 181 Thurs 3rd November 2011 Today we got up……………………It's raining! We drove to Sydney……………. In the rain! We drive across the epic Sydney Harbour Bridge………………………but can't see the harbour because of the rain and mist! We drive right through Sydney and out the other side…………………….In the rain! Finally to get out of the rain and the traffic we dive into one of the thousands of McDonalds for a McF...

Blog Day 180 Wed 2nd November 2011 We hit the road straight away again this morning, we can't really hang around to cook any brekkie as we have run clean out of gas. An hour and a half later and we are walking into the tourist info building in Newcastle. The fella that we talk to is obviously very proud to call Newcastle his home and we leave feeling that we should emigrate here right away! With an arm full of leaflets we take a drive along the coastal roads ...