Tomorrow Eric and I are going to Sydney and then on to Tasmania and Melbourne. We are flying back to Sydney on March 9th where Lesley and Ray are meeting up with us for one last night before Eric flies home. We have been having so much fun with Lesley and all our new Australian friends but we are looking forward to some Deb and Eric time. Today was mostly about cleaning and doing laundry and repacking and organizing and getting ready for our next adventure. Nothi...

We got a little bit of an earlier start today which was good we have nearly 700k to go and we are all ready to get home. The hardest part about a road trip in Australia is finding a descent cup of coffee. Thank goodness Lesley purchased an auto-drip coffee maker for us and talked us into bringing it on the trip with us. Eric and I drink our good coffee in the morning but by around 2pm I am ready for a pick me up. You can go to a coffee shop or even a McDonalds an...

We had left a bunch of stuff at Daphne and Trevor's while we went over to Heron Island so we had to repack and get organized this morning. Our goal was to leave around 9:30 and start the drive back towards Lesley’s house in Umina Beach. We left pretty much on time but not before Trevor took Eric and I to the garage to give us some cool rocks you can only find in Australia. Our travel route to today was mostly on the New England Highway which makes Eric an...

Sometime during the night it began to rain. When we woke it was still rainy and windy. We figured we were in for a rough boat ride back to Gladstone. This is fortunately ok for the three of us but I imagine most of the rest of the passengers will not be feeling well. We went to breakfast and then packed our stuff. We had to check out of our room by 10am but the boat did not leave until 2pm. We headed down to the main pavilion to hang out. I needed to catch up o...

We walked down the beach after breakfast this morning to find a school of stingrays right on the waters edge. We stood in the shallow water and watched them move around our legs. Whenever a shark came into view the rays would move off as a group and when the coast was clear they would move back in close to shore again. We started today with a swim at the gantry. It is amazing how many thousands of fish we could see all at once. Every once in a while a shark wou...