We arrived at the airport at 4.30am, after little sleep at the Jackaroo. Our time in Sydney and Manly had been great and the weather had been very pleasant. It was very humid stepping off the plane in Cairns at 8am, and actually suprisingly overcast for the first few days. Luckily our transfer was awaiting us, and shot us up to Port Douglas (new abbreviation is PDas we can't be bthered to write the full name everytime) immediately (an hour north of Cairns).PD is ...

Happy New Year to you all. Sydney was incredible - the tickets we got at the Botanic Gardens were sensational. The view consisted of the boats in the harbour, the Opera House behind them and the Harbour bridge right behind that. We also had a beautiful view of the city skyline. The whole day was a good 30 degrees plus - so again we were very happy we didn't have to stay out all day - our event started at 7pm. We had a 4 course meal, complimentary champagne, a D...

Christmas day was great, Ange and Drew picked us up from Manly and we went to their home in a northern suburb called Castle Hill. We met Anges parents Dot and Pete and all of their siblings and their families. It was really nice to spend Christmas with a family even though it wasn't ours. We couldn't beleive all that we have done this year - last year we were sitting at Dave's Uncle and Aunt in Johannesburg with high aspirations of all the year held in store fo...

Yey! its back to civilisation. We were lucky enough to have some friends in Manly (a beach suburb of Sydney) who have lent us their house for Christmas/New Year while they are away in New Zealand. Manly is beautiful, a small ferry ride from Circular Quay, passing the Opera House and the majority of the harbour. The house is a godsend, since prices for a bunk in Sydney around Christmas/New Year can be over $100 a night and a minimum of 10 nights, so for the 2 o...

So happy that we found Cradle Mountain we had to visit the doctors as Megan has developed a Sinus infection - nothing serious but we thought we would get some antibiotics just in case. The next 2 days really just were filled out with driving through the mountain range back to Hobart. The highlights were the freaky town of Zeeham - which seriously looked like a film set. We were so freaked out by how quiet and clean it was we didn't stop - actually we locked th...