Well we survived our first day and night at moreton island!!!! Marty and l are very happy with the tent. It was also great to fall asleep listening to the ocean and to hear the same when you woke up (behind the noise of the girls of course!). However, we did not expect to wake up to a near 2 meter python snake just outside our tent. Marty had got up to go start his day when l heard a frightful "holy s***" come out of his mouth whilst moving to the other side of t...

Well we finally made it out to Moreton Island after half a day wasting sitting in the car. We left Gold Coast at 9:30am thinking it would take a bit to find where we had to go but we had arrived at Port Brisbane by 10:30am with our ferry not scheduled to pick us up till 2:30pm!!! So we headed into Brisbane to get a few last minute things and to buy scrabble for Marty and l to play while at the island which all took around am hour. So we had lunch in a parking lot...

Our time in the Gold Coast has nearly come to an end, one more night and then we pack up and head to Moreton Island for a week. Looking forward to seeing how we all go with not having tv, computers and possibly no phones!!! Should be interesting to say the least. Our week in Gold Coast has been uneventful but tiring. We arrived from Byron Bay on Sunday 31st July, only taking around 2 hours to get here. The short drive was good for a change and the girls defin...