Our last days in Sydney have now passed us by and Alan and Lorna have left us to fly back home, so once again it is just the two of us and our lovely tent as we travel back up the coast for a few weeks before getting back to the farm. On Thursday (Jan 5th - birthday!!) we headed back out to Darling harbour so that the folks could stock up on souvenirs in the outback and aboriginal centre, before we all took part in the PGA crazy golf championship 2006 to escape ...

We are now back in Sydney again after a couple of days taking in the sights and sounds of the Blue Mountains just an hour's drive away. We arrived fairly early on Monday morning after the short trip from the city and dropped Alan and Lorna off at the B&B they had booked themselves into, and while they got themselves settled in we headed on around to the campsite, where we bumped into Toyah and Stuart who had also chosen this weekend to visit. It was strange ...

Today is officially the hottest day on record in Sydney at an absurd 45oC and as a result, we are currently experiencing a DefCon 4 situation and all movements have been restricted to absolute necessity!! Any other day and we would be absolutely loving the weather, but after spending the best part of twelve hours out in the sun yesterday, it's all getting a bit much. Friday was another hot one as we set off for a leisurely cruise around the harbour to get a diff...

Yesterday we visited another of the nearby national parks, this time to the south of Sydney - Royal National Park, the oldest in the country. Armed with food for a BBQ and toys for the beach we set off to explore the area. However, when we arrived at the information centre we were told that all of the walking trails were closed due to the extreme risk of bush fires, so we headed straight around to the beach. It's quite strange to think that less than an hour's d...

We spent much of this afternoon, walking around the Australia Museum and were pleasantly surprised to find out that we weren't bored at all. Just when we were beginning to worry that it must have meant that we were getting old, we realised that it was in actual fact because they had some bloody good displays inside the museum and not just some rocks and piles of bones with twelve hundred years of dust on them. Maybe it's because Australia's history only dates bac...