Christmas Eve!! We both slept really well, it was nice being back in a normal bed for once! When we finally dragged ourselves out of bed we had breakfast and headed out to explore!! It was lovely and sunny so we went to the Botanical gardens and had a lovely walk around! It was very picturesque and it was lovely walking along the harbour! We walked around to the Opera house and had took the compulsory pictures! We went inside and its not as posh as you would exp...

Change over day – From camper to hostel! We got up and packed up our stuff and the camper and set off towards Sydney. We didn't have to take the camper back until 4pm so we weren't in a hurry! We thought about going to Manly beach which is north of Sydney and then driving across the harbour bridge into Sydney to the hostel. However, after consulting the tourist information we decided against this idea because of traffic, road closures and xmas shoppers! Instead...

We had a rather cold night sleep and woke up to a windy day! We set off early and went to find Cahill's lookout. We were the only ones around as we walked down to the lookout. It was a lovely view across the valley and was a very crisp morning. After admiring the views we went to the Jenolan caves which are further out than the blue mountains. The drive took longer than we had expected and the road to it was quite narrow in places and on the edge of a cliff! Tha...

We managed to get going fairly early for once and headed towards Sydney! It was a fair drive and parts were quite busy. Some parts were lovely driving through though. We stopped in Parramatta at the tourist information to get some more information on the Blue Mountains and made our way towards them. We stopped in Glenbrook which was further along for lunch and to plan our route and off we set! The weather had been lovely and sunny by we noticed it gradually gett...

We woke up very late this am, the latest since having the camper! Still feeling tired we dragged ourselves out of bed and got sorted. We had a chat with the kangaroo but he too was a bit tired and grumpy so we left him to it! While getting our bits together we noticed a group of people over the road looking up in a tree. Mark went to investigate and it was a Koala! He was very cute and cuddly! Our first stop of the day was 1 mile beach which was just down the ro...