13th March We are trying hard to ignore the time slipping away quite quickly now until our return to England. It's hard though when you've looked forward to soemthing for so long and had such a brilliant time but there's a few more adventures to come yet. After leaving our ideallic campsite by the sea we continued our drive north and to the picturesque area of Byron Bay. We actually stayed in a neighbouring seaside village called lennox Head which was fantast...

6th March Our first major stop off after leaving Sydney was the Blue Mountains. This is a series of national parks, part of the Great Dividing Range and is one of the most popular areas, probably because of its close proximity to Sydney, although is stunningly beautiful too. The 'Blue' of the blue mountains comes from the unlra fine oily blue mist given off by the eucalyptus trees. The night we arrived we did a night stroll as some of the cliffs are illuminat...

28th FebWell the last week or so has been a tale of two cities. We spent two days in Canberra with our lovely friends Maureen and Angela who Michele was at primary school with and emmigrated 20 years ago. They both have children themselves and it was great for ours to have some pals to play with. On one evening Maureen had all their family over for a BBQ, many of whom we had met when we travelled here 14 yrs ago so it was lovely to catch up. Maureen and Angel...

22nd Feb The last five days have seen some real contrasts. We have spent three days in the National Parks of Eastern Victoria and Western New South Wales and then a couple of days in Canberra with some friends. Now when you think of Australia and try to picture the landscape, most people would have an image of huge deserted expanses of bushland, kangaroos hopping by and the coastline with surfers and, jellyfish and sharks (bit of a generalisation but not witho...

17th Feb We are currently in the 'High Country' between Melbourne and Canberra.This is a series of National parks making up the quite a mountainous region and Victoria's main ski locations.We have spent the last three days in Wilson's Promonotory National Park which is down by the coast, south of Melbourne.I haven't broken the days up like usual as the whole experience seems to have blended into one fantastic blur.The park is one of the most popular in australia...