Having met Nick at Sydney Airport we had a few hours wait to catch our flight to Melbourne, by the time we had arrived at the hotel Nick had been travelling 49 hours and we had been travelling 24. Rather than go to bed we went to the local pub to celebrate. The next morning Jo felt rather worse for wear, she blamed the Black Sambuca, we thought it was more to do with the 6 glasses of wine she had drunk previously. Sunday the tempretures soared to a mighty 43 degr...

Does anyone remember I went through a hippy phase? Well Byron Bay brought it all back.....weren't the clothes terrible?! And the smell of dreadlocks...Heaving with backpackers (whom I have come to despise-I have a suitcase with wheels so I am not one), Byron Bay is the place to come to have your Chakras massaged and you Auras read......or in my case the place to twist your ankle stepping off the pavement in flip flops. It was so painful I thought I would actu...

We decided to do the cultural experience on day 1 and visited 3 museums learning a lot about Brisbane recent history and about Australia as a whole. Day 2 saw us visit The Lone Pine Koala Sancuary. It is a 35min bus ride out of town and is the largest Koala sanctuary in the world. I was really looking forward to seeing the Tasmanian Devil as it was one of the few native animals that we had not already seen. Much to my disappointmnet he was not on display that day...

Noosa Heads was lovely, we did absolutely nothing except relax, shame we only had 2 days here. Anyway off to the big smoke next (Brisbane) thank god the cricket has finished.

Most people go to Hervey Bay as the start off point for a 4wd trip to Fraser Island, we were no different. Our trip did not go until Saturday so we had a few days to watch the cricket before we set off - I wish I hadn't bothered !!! Anyway back to the important stuff the cricket ....... er no Fraser Island. It is the largest sand Island in the world measuring 125km by 15km and the only way to get around in by 4x4. Jo didn't trust my driving so we were on ...