We can't believe that our time in Oz is at an end. Our drive back from Agnes Water took us back to Bree's (off road for a bit) in time for us to celebrate the New Year with the Alder cousins. All three children stayed up to welcome 2014, they were the main entertainment dancing and dressing up. January 1st we had a final family gathering at Robbie and Christine, Ken & Celia drove down from Buderim and Robbie and Wendy Johnston came up from Moreton Bay with ...

27th Dec Today we left the sunshine coast, found the Bruce highway and headed towards our home for the next four days on the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. Our tom tom thought it would be a laugh and took us off road; thank goodness we're in a 4x4. After about 40kms of only us travelling on gravel road making the yellow car game redundant only seeing a couple of sugar cane farms we returned to a tarmac road, still off the beaten track. The farms had no...

The 23rd brought another long drive we said goodbye to New South Wales and entered our final province Queensland of our Australia trip. For whatever reason, probably the weather this is where our biggest concentration of family members are. We broke our trip stopping at Alan and Shelly in Mermaid Bay on the gold coast. Our half hour stop turned into lunch catching up with Pat and Derek who were over here from South Africa while the cuzzies spent the entire time...