Only an hour away from the coast and things began to change dramatically. The temperature began to rise and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. The air and landcape became parched and the trees disappeared the further inland we went. the rivers and creeks became completely cracked and dry. Distances between towns were vast and the roads lengthened, stretching for miles without even a hint of a bend. Vehicles were so few and far between that everyone greeted each...

We reached Adelaide late and tired after a long day on the road. every campsite we reached was closed. Finally we found one without a barrier - bingo! - so just went in anyway. The office didn't open until 8.00am -we'd be gone by then. We had to be clever about the toilets and use precision timing, as the doors all have code locks. the next morning we woke early - well Tom did. With Gemma and I in the back still dozing, he high tailed it out of there - fr...

Flew into beautiful sunshine in Sydney. Had our first bed-bug nightmare in a really awful hostel, before catching the train straight out and into the blue mountains (just west of sydney) to catch up with Gemma. We didn't hang around in Sydney as we'll be returning here later. Gem was staying at her relatives place whilst they were on holiday - they even left her use of the car....cushtie! We had the whole place to ourselves. It was so nice havin...

I suprisingly quite liked Brisbane as far as cities go. We went just for the day to meet up with a German couple we'd made good mates with in New Zealand. We found a geat bar with live music and settled in for the night. I somehow managed to spontaneously throw my drink over Tom (much to the amusement of everyone else - apart from Tom!) At the end of the night in our casuals - shorts and flip-flops, the boys tried for a laugh to get into one of the numerous c...

Typically it rained the whole of the first day on the road, which put a bit of a dampner on the mood, but meant that we actually covered far more distance on day one than we anticipated. We also got a better insight into the scale of the driving we were about to take on having driven all day and covered a pewny couple of cm's on our huge Oz map and probably the entire length of the UK! We drove until wherever we happened to be at sunset, which found us in a s...