Did you know... that the Gum Nut Tea Gardens in The Rocks is no longer open?! Disappointing - that is where we were headed to find some breakfast this morning. The Rocks by the way is quite an interesting and picturesque part of Sydney to the East of Circular Quay (which if I may point out is where the Opera House and Bridge are located). Anyways we made it back to Sydney ahead of schedule, yesterday (5th) escaping the continued flash flooding in Cairns and Quee...

Another really hot day - though some predicted showers... 3rd (and last) full day in Sydney today - so we're going round to some of the sights and one of the big town parks, and maybe see Mrs Macquaries Chair...

Lazy sunday at Taronga park - our big chance to get up close with the koalas, which we certainly did. Taronga is a fairly short ferry ride out of Sydney, on a beautiful baking hot day. We saw quite a lot of interesting / more unusual animals / reptiles, including alligators, penguins, giraffes, lions, elephants etc. The good thing about Taronga is you can get really close to most of the residents!!! That took us most of the day as it was such a huge place so li...

And here we go, we made it to Oz - well more specifically Sydney - having landed at 8.20am today (left HK last night at about 8pm). It's particularly hot right now (or at least it was lunchtime) towards the top 20s/ 30s, so we did our best to keep to the shade. Particularly as it was too early to check in to the hotel so we still had a bit of luggage and warmer clothes on! We still did a long walk though, in search of flops/ Crocs. Obviously we did get to see t...