Those of you who have been keeping up with our trip will know about our midway re route. We received a phone call when we were in Chang Mai, Thailand, back at the beginning of the year from Kelly, John's daughter to tell us she had found out she was pregnant......and was due on the 20th Sept, just over a week before John was due back at work. With this news we had serious thinking to do......whether to reroute and finish in Australia, or stick to the original pla...

Tuesday 13th August Wild Koala hunting ...again After last nights exciting X Factor – Keep going Georgie ....we still managed to get up for a nice early start this morning to drive the next stage of our journey back down South towards Sydney. Today we took a fairly leisurely drive stopping off at the lovely Port Macquarie- loads of lovely blue sea, sand and surf (obviously just the sea was blue). The shops were pretty good, and the place was spotlessly c...

Monday 12th August Bats , Birds and Bad language day Today we were out and about again mingling with nature. A short drive away from Coffs harbour is Bellingen and the Dorrigo national park (part of another World heritage site). We rambled through the rainforest tracks hunting down the elusive birds- all we managed were a couple of Bush turkeys and a Blue wren . John got a bit twitchy when the Bush Turkey tried to replay Johns Kookaburra incident – but...

Sunday 11th August Those of you familiar with our last expedition to Australia may remember the Blue Mountains guide with a knack for stating the obvious – That building is known as "the wooden hut" 'cause it's a wooden hut. Well today we met one of his female relatives at the Harbourside market. “The ones at the back are sleeveless and the ones at the front have sleeves” Must stop wearing the dark glasses and taking the Labrador out with me...

Friday 9th August Kelly & Matt's wedding Andrew had spent the night at Dayboro with us, courtesy of our generous hosts. After saying a tearful farewell to Susie and Peter, our Workaway hosts, and new Aussie friends, we headed out towards the coast for the big event. Today was a beautiful day. Kelly & Matt chose to have their wedding at Cupids Gardens at Burpengarry- so the clue being in the title we were outside all day. The garden gazebo had been a...