North Stradbroke Island. The last adventure for the car before it was time to part and move on from Queensland and what an adventure it took us on. We got the ferry across from Cleveland and I was a bit bemused to see trucks and normal cars getting on. I hadnt really done that much research on the island and therefore was totally unaware that there was tarmac roads connecting the three main communities on the island. We immediately headed North to the top of ...

The Glass House Mountains. A short trip just north of Brisbane (40 mins past Australia Zoo) took us to the Glass House Mountains. Wonderfully enchanting and exceptionally beautiful as the winter sun beamed down upon them. There are two stories as to how the mountains, isolated as they are came to exist, the sciency one and the Aboriginal one...both are pretty cool. The Aboriginal story is better I think...According to Aboriginal legend, Tibrogargan (364m high...

Australia Zoo. We took a trip up to Australia Zoo at the weekend. This meant an early start to miss the traffic and so I could get back in time for work at 6. It was well worth it. Australia Zoo was set up by Steve Irwin's mum and dad back in the 1980s and was then taken over by Steve and his wife Terri in the 90s when they renamed it to...Australia Zoo. It is still run by Terri with both the children, Robert and Bindi taking an active role in the zoo with t...

Well its been a month since the floods and about a month since my last update. Lots have happened in this part of the world in the past 40 orso days. We started with the floods in QLD which then made there way to NSW and Victoria. Whilst these were going on there was forest fires on the West Coast which ravaged quite a lot of the land in WA and a lot of homes were destroyed as well. After all that cleared up, the North East coast was hit by cyclone Yasi which tor...

Brisbane Floods. Just to let everybody know...I'm alright, thanks for the floods of emails and phone calls to make sure!!!!! (only two people asked and neither were my parents...guess Andrew must be the favourite son now) They were mad. Luckily for us we were able to stay at Grant's in-laws who live on top of a mountain (well a hill) and therefore were able to stay out of the floodwaters. We were stranded up there though as there was no way of getting into th...