We arrived in Chrischurch, early afternoon and it was cold we were glad we had our warm clothes on. We took the bus to the City and found our hotel, hotel so, a brand new modern hotel which was fitted with mood lighting, a small bathroom and a great tv, it was a great option for our first night. We had a walk around the small City and it started to sleet. we grabbed a hot chocolate and made our way back to the hotel. That evening we decided to head to the flyi...

We left Tony and Jenny's and drove in to the City to pick up our hire car. We had booked the smallest one going as it was the cheapest, a Hyundai Getz. We had a bit of luck and they had none left when we arrived so we managed to get a Mitsubishi Lancer we were really pleased to have more room, god knows how we would have fitted everything in to the smaller car. We drove North on the Bruce Highway and the traffic was really good, so we arrived about 1.30pm. We kne...

We managed painfully to get the van to a garage across the road from the campsite, we left it with them for diagnosis although it was obvious we would need a new clutch just our luck. We went back had a shower, looked around the shops for an hour and had lunch before returning. The bad news....the clutch was inevitable in addition 2 of the cylinder head valves had blown (which we had a vague idea of) a full service on top and the total was $2000! Ouch, but it nee...

On the Sunday we decided to move on up the coast as we were due to meet Scott and Kelly and start our search for more work together, the final destination Caboolture in Queensland to pick strawberries. We met them on the highway about 150km North of Sydney, we were going to have a few leisurely days making our way up the Northern New South Wales coast, but we made it quickly to Nelsons Bay although it was getting late, we had a look around and then could not find...

From Kiama we continued up the coast towards Sydney, stopping first at Shellharbour. We went in to the visitor centre a strange experience, it was in a casino/club place! We found our way to the beach, again it was very picturesque and relatively empty, a couple of surfers, joggers and walkers. Wayne sat on the grassy bank and fell asleep, we'd only been awake an hour or two. I took a walk to the Northern end of the beach, the water was not too cold to paddle and...