We are SOOOOO cold. Off shopping for clothes and hats and gloves and tights (yes, that was tights!).

Straight from Sydney to Brisbane and onto a bus to Hervey Bay. Seats right next to the toilets as usual, rather like most of our plane rides actually. Im beginning to think our tickets may have been too cheap! ...From where we made our trip to Fraser Island (largest sand island in the world where the beach is the main road). We hooked up with some people at our hostel and hired a 4WD and went off for 3 days of camping on the beach and getting stuck in s...

Arrived in Sydney and got to stay in Ms Brodie's pad which is so nice! It was a gorgeous sunny day and Sonia took us on a guided tour of Sydney. Well, we didnt get much further than the botanical gardens, but we saw all the A list sites. Very wisely she took the Monday off work, so on Sunday night we went out for fantastic sushi (also with Peter Drew) and had a little bit too much to drink. Great night, horrid hangover. To recover from this we abandonned Mik...

We were so lucky with Tas. Even though it was pretty icy compared to where we had been previously, the sky was blue for the 5 days we were there. Hired a car straight away and drove up to Cradle Mountain to do some walking (and get rid of some of the tummy from Adelaide!). We stayed at the YHA at the camping ground which promptly had a power cut. For 5 hours between 6pm and 11pm. That's all right if you're expecting it, but we needed electricity to coo...

Adelaide with Shazza