Wahoo, it's SUNNY! Trust us to have decided to sleep in a little later today. We rushed around getting ready and by the time we did, the weather started getting crappy again. It even started spitting when we got into the car!! Paul took us on a sightseeing tour around Surfers Paradise and the surrounding area. They actually live in Southport just near Surfers, and he took us to the northern point of the beaches to a place called The Spit. We walked on this rocky...

Got up early to make some phone calls home to let family know what we are doing. And read more news about the floods getting worse. It's not affecting where we are - it's a few hours drive to where the worst of it is. We didn't do a great deal today, just a few jobs to get done. We're enjoying not rushing around doing all kinds though. It's really good because we're staying somewhere nice so we're happy to just relax. Lovely tea. Chicken on skewers, salad and m...

We woke up to more rain so didn't rush getting up. Unfortunately for Mel, she had to go back to work today but Paul is still off. We switched the news on to find that things are getting really bad up the coast. And our OzExp Bus can't even go all the way up north now, it only goes a couple of stops up from here. We ended up spending most of the day working out what we should do. We've got all kinds of crazy plans. Maybe only do our 3 week Darwin to Melbourne t...

Had a lovely breakfast of scrambled eggs with ham on muffins with mushrooms and tomato. Best breakfast since I've been away. We needed a good breakfast because Mel and Paul took us up to a place called Binna Burra in Hinterland. Unfortunately, the weather is really poor today. They're probably more disappointed than we are about it because they had loads of different ideas to take us here there and everywhere...in the sun! Bloody rain! But we were up for some ad...

We had to tip toe around again this morning to catch our bus at 8.30am out of Byron Bay. It only took 1hr to get up to Surfers Paradise, but we weren't picked up on time so didn't get there until about 10am...actually, it was 9am!!! We didn't realise that the clocks went back 1 hour when we went from New South Wales to Queensland. And we've arranged to meet some friends! We're staying with Mel and Paul who we met in Laos! Fortunately, they kind of already though...