We went to brisbane to visit Simon's old neighbour Suzie. She lives in Brisbane with her her kiwi husband Greg. We stayed with them for a couple of nights

We arrived in australia in the middle of the night with nowhere to stay or no idea where we were going. Customs took ages the officers took away simons mosquito killer saying it was dangerous and they checked everything. We discovered a board in the airport advertising hostels so we phoned some up and eventually got an answer, and took a taxi to it and went to sleep. Perth was so cold such a difference from asia. We went for a walk around looking at camper add...

We drove in to the state of new souh wales and stopped at a place called darlington point and got some supplies for lunch simon planned to go crayfishing with his new net but there was so many flies about that we ate quickly and went on our way We stopped at a small town called griffith where we discovered that instaed of paying to stay at van parks we could use the camp ground in one of the national parks for free...fantastic The first place we tried was by a ...

Australia is such a vast country, and looking at the map was quite daunting. We decided to head for Albany on the south coast, but made it there quicker than expected so decided to go another 500km to Esperance. All that distance and all we saw was the odd truck train and dead kangaroos.Esperance is like what we think england looked like in the 1970's its said to have the best beaches in west oz .....they werent that good but it was cold, wet and windy, so mu...

We drove to freemantle which is about 20km from perth. We stopped at the beach and flew our kite as it was quite windy and still bloody cold. We stocked up and found a caravan park and did our first meal on our cookers, in the rain later discovering there was a camp kitchen. on our first night we were asleep before eight o clock. The next day we drove to another beach and simon did some fishing and only managed to catch a star fish, the beach had a large par...