Before we left home, we decided that we'd try and do job's which we'd never done before, weren't likely to do again and which would hopefully enrich us. So far we've worked with horses, helped with docking, shearing, worked on a hop farm, thinned apples and many more. So it was a natural progression to then work on a nudist resort !!!! When we were back in England looking at the help exchange website, we'd seen the 'White Cockatoo' advertised and thought that w...

When we booked our flights back in England, our helpful travel agent had us flying into Alice Springs and out of Ayers rock, he assured us it was one and the same thing. Once in OZ, we soon realised it was a five hour drive from the Alice to Ayers rock. Also by the time our flight touched down we missed the bus to Ayers rock. We looked into the price of flights but in the end decided to get a one way hire car, it didn't work out that much more than getting the bu...

We found a tour that would hopefully get us into the outback and experience the real Austrailia. We did contemplate hiring a car and travelling around ourselves, but as time is now precious, we deicded this tour would be the best way to go. We would be driven inland about 500k's to Coonabarabran and then over the following four days gradually make our way to Byron bay. Ted picked us up from Bondi Beach at about 0630 on Sunday Morning, we could tell straight awa...

Gooday !! Well we arrived in Sydney at about 1700 and had thankfully booked a hostel for our first night in OZ. We found the airport shuttle bus and for $10 got a lift direct to the hostel. The drive to the hostel was a rude awakening that we we're now back in a fast paced fully westernised city. The coach driver was throwing his vehcile around and driving like his life depended on it. It reminded us of South American driving !!! We eventually got to the hos...

Well, we\'re just about to catch our plane to Austrailia and we thought it would be nice to write our final thoughts on NZ. Everyone had told us we\'d both love NZ, well, we do !. Not just the physical beauty of the place, but the warmth of the people to. We\'ve seen some incredible places, experienced some amazing things. We\'ve also had our low points, but which now, don\'t seem that bad at all. We\'ve travelled pretty much all over NZ, from the very top of...