Blog Day 172 Tues 25th October 2011 Up early today to drive to the spit which is a beach area located just outside of the main beach surfers. Here we sort out some breakfast & have a good tidy up of the van. The thing about travelling is the constant pile of washing. We look forward to the day when we no longer have to purchase tokens to do our washing. Drying clothes is a nightmare too, the constant tumble-drying is now taking its toll on our clothes, mea...

Blog Day 171 Mon 24th October 2011 Today Queen Elizabeth is in town. Her majesty has come to Brisbane & will be cruising down the river to South bank, to open up the new rainforest walk which was damaged by the floods last year. It's also time for us to check out of this amazing apartment & start living like true campers. After packing away all our things we take a walk down to the boardwalk. They said in the papers that her Maj was due to start her ...

Blog Day 169 Sat 22nd October 2011 We enjoy a lie in today & after breakfast we attempt to watch another of the scratched up movies. This time a Julia Robert movie called Step Mom, we only get about 10mins in before we give up all together & decide to head out for a walk along the boardwalk & over the bridge to a place called Southbank. Southbank is a lovely family oriented area with a huge swimming pool, park & beach area & rainforest walk...

Blog Day 167 Thurs 20th October 2011 This morning we are woken by the sounds of the birds tweeting away. Poached eggs on toast see us on our way towards Brisbane. The drive to Brisbane is pretty straight forward and pretty nice too, it's once we hit the city & try to find the next hostel that Renee has us booked into that it becomes complicated. With one way roads & no entry signs everywhere it takes us a while to get onto the road we need & even the...

Blog Day 166 Wed 20th October 2011 STEVE IRWIN ZOO DAY!!!!!! So after some deliberation we decide to go with the people who were 'for' going to the famous Steve Irwin zoo. We have previously had very mixed opinions about this zoo but have decided that no matter what people say a zoo is a zoo & you can't really beat it for a good day out. Just as we are preparing to leave we bump into Stephen & Sarah an Irish couple who we met on the Whitsundays tr...