First sighting of a huntsman spider. Apparently its cant kill you but leaves a very nasty and sore bite, and it's good to have around the house as they eat other beasties which are more deadly to people. The poto probably doent do it justice but it was a big beast indeed! Annand took care of it. Sally and I hid behind the door.

The final of the mens tennis, Rafa versus Novak, number one seed versus number two seed, the worlds best, an epic battle, and unstopple force meets an immovable object, one of the greatest ever against the man of the moment, determination and power against technique accuracy a 6 hour marathon, a nail biter, a sporting spectacle. . . and we were there to see it all!! The atmosphere was electric, the crowd was split down the middle, but we were cheering for rafa a...

Arrived in Melbourne and after dropping off the van stayed with Anand and Kelly in thier house for a week. Anand is the guy who got Sally her job out here - what a guy! Like Sally he is an anethst . . .anastetic. . . he is a doctor! and he seems to spend all of his money on toys - the garage was full of stuff like kyaks and other beach toys, bikes, a scooter, a Harley Davidson etc so t'was all good fun! They live out in the suburbs so we spent a lot of time on t...

We were thinking about how to get down to Melbourne and everyone said just fly. This seemed a bit boring, as well as quite expensive, and we wanted to see some of the country. We had looked into renting a car but then someone told us about 'relocation campervans' for 5 bucks per day! This basically means that the rental agency wants the van in back in Melbourne so instead of paying one of thier staff to drive it down fom Sydney they let joe public bring it down ...

Nice wee flight over to OZ from Singapore (7Hrs). Picked up at the airport by Kerry & Marc; Sally's firnds from uni who were kind enough to put us up in thier apartment for a week. Airport to pub within 45 mins, impressive stuff!! Kerry had an itenerary planned for us ad acted as our personal travel agent. The first item on the list was taking us to see a show at a lttle place called the Sydney Opera House (you might even have heard of it). We took the ferry...