Hello everybody! We arrived in the big city (Sydney, in case you were wondering) on Saturday!! We said goodbye to our tour group that night and celebrated with a couple of drinks and some dancing in a club before managing to stay up late enough ('til 4 am!) to watch the England-Portugal game. Next morning we went to the Zoo - and tried to find all the animals that we couldn't find in the wild! Unfortunately we failed - as we still havent seen a cassowar...

G'day! Or G'deve in our case! After a restful and very quiet stay in Byron Bay we headed to surf camp! Very exciting! We eventually managed to SQUEEZE our extremely svelte bodies into tight black wetsuits and then started our first surf lesson! After several exhausting practice jumps on the sand we tried to catch some waves (dudes!). The first day was brilliant fun with both of us managing to stand up on our boards... That night we managed to ge...

Hello everyone! Sorry about the long absence, but we are on holiday after all! After leaving Airlie Beach we headed to Kroombit Cattle Ranch, on the way taking in the popular national pastime of lawn bowls. Which we were both useless at - but then we figure we are fifty years too young for this kind of thing! Arriving in Kroombit we had a typical cattle ranch dinner - round the most enormous table you have ever seen! Then tried our hand (and legs, ...

Just back from our sailing trip, and thought we should update you with all our news! Previously on Louise and Lucy's Round the World in 80 Days Trek we had visited Uluru and the joeys in Alice. We then headed to Cairns (on a flight which took 2 hours, instead of a bus which would have taken 3 days?! Mwahaha! This place really is huge!). After a relaxing first night consisting mainly of eating, drinking and sleeping, we then got up the next day and Lu...

Sorry everyone. Can't chat now - have to catch a sailing boat for 3 days sailing! We promise to update you with all our pictures and news when we get back. Thanks for all your messages! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx