Hi there everybody, soooo sorry we havent written for a while, we've been soooo busy...and lazy ha ha, where do we start, lets start with the $350 worth of parking fines I received on Xmas day from sydney council for parkin my van the wrong way around on the street, merry xmas to you to :(on a brighter note we headed back out to the blue mountains after xmas to meet back up with our german freinds, anna and franz, the blue mountains national park is really quite ...

Hi to all and we hope everyone back home had an amazing xmas,feeling guilty as we havent written a blog for a while, well we flew back up to hervey bay after meeting my folks for the week in sydney to pick the van back up and start again where we left off - heading south again - from hervey bay we drove to a small town called tin can bay, not much here but there are two resident dolphins , which come right in , there are two rangers there that dish out the fish a...

Friday 21st nov. Wahoo were off to sydney!! We had to get up very early to catch our flight, only an hour and 1/2 but we arrived in good time, lyndsey arrived 20mins later and daryls parents flight got in 20mins after that, couldnt have planned it better! We jumped into a taxi and went straight to our hotel which was great, right on darling harbour. we had a lovely appartment wich had electricity and a fridge what a novelty!! (2 things we have really missed in th...

Tuesday 11th we stayed on a great campsite right on the beach just a 5 minute walk from the turtle rookery wich is a protected beach where loggerhead turtles use asa nesting ground during the breeding season. We were really lucky as the turtles start laying on the beach from the 7th november and when we arrived there the ranger told us that they hadn't had any turtles in yet so we might not get to see one. We had to wait around for 3hours and finally the first t...

We ended our last night at airlie beach with a BBQ on the esplanade and a few beers of course!!! next morning we headed to the eungella national park. Getting to eungella was a bit of an ordeal for our poor campervan, as we had to get 3km up a 12% gradient hill - but we made it. Our main reason for going here was to spot platypus in the wild but after sitting at the creek for over an hour they were still not showing - however we did see turtles, eels, fish and a ...