Surfing in Sydney We arrived in Sydney on Tuesday evening and it has been sunny ever since - yippee! Hoping the trail of natural disasters we seem to be leaving behind has come to an end we embarked on a few days of sightseeing including the Sydney Opera House, a stroll around the botanical gardens, The Rocks and the Harbour Bridge. We ticked another animal off the list when we saw bats in the Botanical gardens - after watching a couple we realised the trees we...

Beautiful Byron Bay! When we left Rainbow Beach and Fraser Island behind we headed to Byron Bay with a one night stop over in Brisbane as the journey was pretty long. The night in Brisbane was fine with a nice walk along the South Bank of the river and then some cheap homebrand pasta for supper washed down with nearly the last of the goon. It was at this point annoying Alan from Peckham who was a dead ringer for Lloyd Christmas from Dumb and Dumber told me tha...

Sand is your friend, not your enemy! As my dear wife mentioned in the last blog we had booked up a trip to Fraser Island (the world's largest sand island) leaving from Rainbow Beach the next day.The hostel was cool and full of a great bunch of people, which was a relief as this was our first dorm experience!! A little apprehensive as I had put myself down as a driver of this huge 4WD truck to tackle the unexplainable amounts of sand (which we were to find out w...

Whitsundays, more like Wetsundays On the way to the Whitsundays we stopped for a couple of nights in Mission Beach - mainly to chill out on the tropical beach and walk through the rainforests (along with quite a few enormous spiders).We booked ahead for a luxury Whitsundays weekend sailing trip and a camping trip to Fraser Island and journeyed our way down the coast to Airlie Beach. The tropical weather seemed to have followed us from North Queensland and we sp...

Cape Trib, Crocs and Cassowarys We arrived in Cairns on Monday first impressions were the abundance of green landscape after the dry areas of South Australia and the unbelievable humidity.Now I sweat in English heat so here felt like I would evaporate. As we checked in we booked up a trip that took us north of Cairns to the rainforest to do the next day! That night we were treated to a full Aussie BBQ with emu, kangaroo, crocodile and barramundi fish.All very t...