We arrived in a very sunny Sydney and booked a surfing lesson for Bondi Beach the next day. When we got to the beach the waves were quite big at least 10ft (might be a bit of an exaggeration!) but they looked big! Our instructors were really nice and helped us 'catch' waves. The lesson was for 2 hours and by the end we were both getting to our feet for at least 1 second! Dans board kept sinking as he was too far back and I just fell over and got stuck in strong w...

We picked 'Barney' (we nicknamed him) up and set off to Australia Zoo (Steve Irwins) which is about an hour north. We had a nice afternoon wandering feeding kangaroos and watching a croc show. Oh and a man taking a cheetah for a walk on a lead!!! Then came the problem of where to sleep as there were no campsites around so in the end we decided to head to Noosa again and sleep in the hostel car park! This was an experience but we survived but left early the next m...

Hi sorry it's been a while we have been busy bees. After a rather terrifying flight to Kuala Lumpur, we actually thought we might die!!!! It was so bumpy and rocky even the cabin crew weren't allowed out of their seats!! We then had a stressful transfer to our flight to Australia with some jobs worth quizzing us about why we're going to Australia (none of his business I thought) we just about made it to the plane. Luckily the rest of the journey went smoothly. ...