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...

Well, it's all over now for another year, but this Christmas will definitely be one to remember, as it has been our first in 30 degree heat!!! After the adrenalin of the bridge climb had worn off we spent the next couple of days getting everything set up for Christmas, and yeas, it did include some last minute shopping!! Christmas eve was spend preparing enough food to ensure that all of New South Wales would be well provided for, before a few drinks with Toyah ...

Well, today started of with Jen crapping her pants as today is the day we do our harbour bridge climb! We started the day keeping our minds off the climb (as every time Jen thought about it resulted in a panic attack), by going to Bondi Junction to do our Christmas shop! Bruce had a little hissy fit in the car park but he was soon up and running again and off we went to get our massive shop! turkey, sausage meat, spuds, veg, pudding, the works!!! Once the Chri...

Today we had a break from the city and headed north to Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park for a day of fresh air and maybe even some sand and sea. There were a couple of entrances to the park, so we headed to the Bobbin Head one first to take in the views from the lookout, which stuck out of the cliff top over the Bobbin river (ok, so we may have made that bit up as we don't know the name of the actual river). On the way back to the car, Alan and Lorna got to see t...