This morning was my earliest start yet, I had to get up at 05:00 to go and pick Doreen up at her hostel so that we could go back to the Byron Bay Lighthouse to try and get some photos of the sunrise. Although the sunrise was not that spectacular I got a couple of shots that were OK.From the lighthouse I programmed the SATNAV for the Blue Mountains in Sydney and was a little surprised at the distance that it said; 950km and it would take around 12 hours. Why is ...

This morning I woke up and Leander and Debbie's van had moved from the street where we had parked up, but they had left a note under my wiper saying that they had moved to the park nearby as they needed some more space so that they could empty out their van and give it a clean out. Their van was due to be returned today and they had a flight from Brisbane airport down to Sydney, and I had offered to follow them back to the hire company to return their van an...

As you can imagine, we didn't wake up feeling too bright and fresh this morning and Leander was in a pretty bad way. So we stayed around the campsite a while and had a big breakfast of bacon and egg sandwiched as I told Leander that it was the best English cure for a hangover and although it looked like he didn’t believe me at first, I think it worked. We polished off the remaining orange juice (without the vodka!) and then we decided to give Daniel (...

Today we went on a little Travel Wheels (our van hire company) convoy as Leander and I followed each other down to Surfers Paradise stopping at a couple of places along the way down.Straight out of Landsborough we saw the brown tourist sign for the Glass House Mountains scenic drive and took the road around to the mountains for a look. I was a bit disappointed with what I saw as the so called mountains were only 556m above sea level which hardly gives them the r...

This morning I bumped in to Doreen in the bar area while I was having breakfast and as we were both going to head down to Noosa, I offered to give her a lift down there in my van, secretly hoping that she would offer me some petrol money along the way.On the way down to Noosa I got a text message from Leander and Debbie saying that they were going to stay at a town called Landsborough tonight as they wanted visit Australia Zoo today and that they had reserved a p...