4th January- 10th January Melbourne, home of Neighbours, the tram and Ned Kelly! It is said that in Melbourne you can experience 4 seasons in one day, and throughout our trip here we can say that is spot on. 6 days here, each one as strange as the last! We arrived after an overnight bus and gingerly found our way to our hostel. Now we opted for an inner city hostel so we could walk everywhere. Most other hostels are out in the surrounding areas, most of t...

Sydney.... Christmas and New Year!! 21st December- 3rd January What a time we've had over the last two weeks! It's hard to know where to begin so it might as well be at the start. Sad times were afoot when we entered Sydney. After driving round pretty much the whole city looking for a car wash we handed back Laika Virgin and thanked her for getting us safely down the coast. It may have been an orange sweat box on wheels but it had been our home for over a mo...

December 17th - December 21st Day 31- Port Macquarie We woke and headed off for our kayaking trip. We had rang and booked on the previous evening and been told to be at the city centre bridge for 11am. When we arrived we were introduced to our guides, Mark and Ruth. Both were as mad as a box of frogs. Mark was like Steve Irwin on acid and Ruth was just seriously happy to be along for the ride. When the other people arrived we jumped in a kayak and headed up ...

December 12th to December 16th Day 26- Kingscliff to Byron Bay (59km) Basically you can't leave Kingscliff. Well not so much Kingscliff but the region, Tweed Heads. We headed out the main road in Kingscliff and happened upon a roundabout. This roundabout had three exits all of which said Tweed Heads none said Pacific Highway which we were looking for. We took a chance and sped off down the middle road. We drove for about 5 minutes and could see through the bu...

December 6th to December 11th Day 20 Noosa to Coolum beach and then back to Noosa (40km) So we woke and went pottering around Noosa. It's a very wealthy town and we felt slightly out of place being scruffy travellers. After much deliberation we decided to avoid the tours and activities on offer and make our way around the National Park. We forever seem to be in National Parks but in Oz there really pleasant places to go walking round. We parked up and selected ...