Arrival in Victor Harbor in the afternoon on Australia Day... As the name implies, this little place sits on the edge of the water. Quite a cute little town, clearly driven mainly by tourism - it's two key features being its local tram, established since the late 1800s. Whilst it does run on rails, it is horse-powered (and they do take it in turns, there is not just the one horse!). The other significant attraction is Granite Island, which is sanctuary to Little...

It's 25th and we've now made it to Adelaide (in the scheme of things slightly backtracked as we've gone from GMT+10 to GMT+9.5. I think that is a really weird concept to go in half-hour time zones really. Sydney was awesome, would go back there. Adelaide... well on arrival it was hot (about 33deg), and we were met by an 'old school' chauffeur with proper uniform and hat. Nice ride, though we didn't really look the part. Fortunately for us, the clouds came in a ...

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...