Friday 7 May we did our trip to Australia Zoo, this was brilliant! We got the bus and arrived there at 10am. We saw the main croc show and got to feed elephants, however our highlight was holding a koala! We have photos to prove it!!! There are loads of photos of the Irwin family but it is a cheery place! We walked past Terri - Steve's wife. Saturday morning we went to Mooloolaba beach and then got on the Greyhound to Hervey Bay. We arrived here at about 9...

Yesterday we did our walking tour round Brisbane from the Lonely Planet. We stayed in a 20 bed dorm, which was quite noisey so we were up and out by 9.15am! We walked round the city and then found ourselves at a farmer's market - we really enjoyed this as there was loads of freebies!!! We walked through the Botanic Gardens and the Streets beach which is man made by the side of a river! We walked to the Modern Art Gallery, it was ok! We headed back along Vict...

Woke up today and realised it was raining!! Can you believe it?! We decided to go shopping. We went to an outlet centre called DFO, we brought our coats for New Zealand. Got back to the hostel and after about an hour packing, squashing and re-packing we finally got them in to our backpacks!! Only have to carry them for another two months!! This is the last outlet store before we get to the cold so had no choice but to do it here. Spent this evening doing m...

Sorry we have been pretty lame with our blog, we have just been really busy and had no internet access! We understand the last we told you was that we were thinking of doing the bridge climb in Sydney - well we did it!!!! We got up early, grabbed a coffee and headed towards the massive bridge! We had our breath tested for alcohol and put on our jump suits! We set off along the platform all wired up until we got to the ladders. Here we climbed up 3 flights of...