hi! Sorry we've not blogged in a while - its been mental!! So since the alpaca farm we headed to another farm to work for a week and a half - it was 3 hours outside melbourne on the coast - the couple, Jan and Ewan owned cows, sheep, working dogs and a minature poodle called angus!! They were lovely - had travelled to most of the countries we have still to go to so we learned loads from them. Ewan was the farmer - we spent most days with him, herding, building...

Hello!! So we left a wet, flood ridden north (with cyclones and highways getting cut off because of the weather!) to the bush fire south! Arrived in melbourne on the saturday that the fires began - we flew over the smoke, ive never seen anything like it in my life! We spent a few days in the city, really nice place with great markets and cheap food. The best was a vietnamese restaurant where we ate ourselves to a stand still on amazing food for a couple of poun...

Hello! Soooooo - we've reached cairns!! Its been a bit nuts since the last blog lots of rain, beaches and mozzies! North queensland is tropical rainforest, so we have had great walks through the rainforest, seeing amazing waterfalls and oogling some weird and wonderful sights. Lots of farms up here grow mangoes, paw paw, bananas, lychee, pineapples plus some we've never heard of before so lots of cheap fruit getting munched! Lots of driving, its been a god s...

G'day folks! Oz is amazing! We arrived a week ago in Sydney, spent a few days shopping and eating. Oh - the shopping, i had to refrain!! Theres a huge amount of chinese immigrants in the city so there are some fabulous chinese restaurants! We went to the famous opera house and generally wandered the streets! There is a huge botanical gardens that we spent a day in looking at some weird animals and bugs! On Monday morning we picked up our campervan - a small whi...

Hi folks! Just a little update before we head off to oz.We've spent about a fortnight in total in Blenheim- drunk most nights on amazing wine and doing a lot of diving for our open water scuba thingy mabob. Really enjoyed the diving, the open sea is amazing, all the weird and wonderful fish, starfish, shells - we even saw some sea cucumbers and a seahorse, pretty amazing. We were going to go for about a week up to the north island but the ferry across the coo...