Girls on beach and having fun. Sleeper train to Hervey bay at nine tonight. Cannot believe we only have ten days left

See yesterday. We pretty much repeated the success of yesterday. We also continued our experience of strangeness in every city we visit as we witnessed a parade of yellow people. To be fair this was a demo because there are elections on Saturday and this was about saving Aussie jobs and stopping banana imports.

Today in the itinerary was described as a day at leisure and it was. We got up at 9am when the girls decided they had let us lie in long enough and that they needed their breakfast. Alex then with very little help laid the table for us. After breakfast we walked to a truly excellent playground on the Esplanade. Our slight error was not taking the girls swimmers with us as they had water play, so we let them just get wet as the sun would soon dry them out. Th...

Today we were up and out again, this time for 8:40am when the bus was due to pick us up to take us to the Skyrail terminal. We were pretty much last onto the bus so the transfer was not too bad. We collected our tickets and started our day at the Cultural centre. The Cultural Centre was an interesting setup and the performers were very good but the whole thing seemed to be run by about 6 people which meant that we had to keep to a pretty tight schedule. We ar...

The tour of the antipodean play parks continues.