Huge apologies for the length in time since our last update, our thoughts were that there was little to report as most of our time here in Brisbane has been taken up with working. But in actual fact, now that we look back there have been so many things to tell you about that we are going to have to try and condense it somewhat. Ollie has been able to keep his job at Wilson's tackle even through all the order mix ups he has done, sending out the wrong number...

So leaving Townsville on the Wednesday, we head on up further north to Tully to the home of the 7.9 metre Golden Gumboot to where we intended to stay the night, that was until we received a text message from JJ and Sam to say that they had managed to get us all onto a hugely reduced trip to the Barrier Reef, but only if we could make it up to Cairns by Thursday night, to be on the trip at 8am on Friday morning. So foot to the peddle we made it up to a free camp...

From our campsite in Ipswich outside of Brisbane we headed on up the coast for a few quick stops at Bridie Island, Pomona, and then the lovely Noosa Heads before arriving at Gympie. Gympie was our home for four nights, staying at a free rest stop on the edge of town, waiting until money was transferred from our UK accounts, as we had managed by this point to get down to our last $'s! But salvation came in the form of a tax rebate for Sasha, and money from some f...

So now we are most definitely on the road! After some minor repairs on the van in Sydney we decided to give it a bit of a test drive out to the Blue Mountains for a couple of nights. A couple of hours into our journey the van is making the most awful screaching noise which would only happen when slowing down or accelerating away, which provided for some very embarrassing moments at each set of traffic lights, roundabout, junction etc!! So the next day, instead...

We can now fully update you on what we have been up to since arriving in Sydney, which has all been a bit of a whirlwind! We arrived at Hayley and Gary's house on 3rd April, two days after Hayley's accident to find it in quite a smoke stained state and to learn some details of what had happened and what state Hayley was actually in! Gary had of course tried not to worry us when we spoke to him in New Zealand, but finally in Sydney he could explain what we shoul...