We had an uber early start today and got on our first Oz Bus heading towards Barrington Tops, near Gloucester and the Hunter Valley. We stayed in the most awesome place; a large ranch type place in the middle of nowhere where we were fed like kings and sat around the lof fire chatting and singing along to the guitar... sounds weird I know, wasn't that bad! It was so remote it was unreal, no TV, internet etc... Some people opted for night kayaking but I decided on...

G'day, sorry for lack of updating, as you know on Monday we went to Bondi but only for one night as the weather was so miserable and on Tuesday we headed for Coogee. Coogee is about a 20 minute bus journey from Bondi and is quite similar. Its little smaller but a nice town right on the beach with lots of surf shops, fish 'n' chip places, juice bars, etc... We stayed in Beachhouse hostel which was surprisingly FAB! It was very cheap and certainly looked it from th...

Bondi. Ew. Today we packed up from Base in the City and headed for Bondi. The weather at the moment is 100% awful; raining heavily 24/7 and we'd spent so much time in the city we decided it was time to move on. We got to Bondi and checked in to the slighty skanky 'Bondi Sands'. I was in fits of laughter for a good few hours as it was POURING and everything we read was like 'Bondi, the best beach in the world', 'Top Ten Things To Do In Australia, No. 1 Bondi', 'Su...

Today we went to Taronga Zoo - it was so cool, I'd be here forever if I went through all the animals we saw; koalas, wallabies, reptiles, snakes, tasmanian devil, an amazing seal show, penguins, giraffes, zebras, gorillas, chimpanzees, rhinos, hippos and lots lots more! We came back and visited a festival in Little Italy which had a great atmosphere and a concert band playing which was nice to hang around in. We've just cooked supper and are going to spend the ni...

At first today was a really boring admin-type day sorting out dates, photos, flights etc... but after all that was out the way (it was dark by this time!) we decided we wanted to go to Mary Macquaries Chair to view the bridge and opera house at night. It was a pretty long walk but definatly worth it, its a magnificent site. After soaking it all up we walked over the bridge to see Luna Park but the lads got distracted by food so we grabbed some dinner and the trai...