Okay, well just to give you all an update on the past few weeks. Thredbo was awesome and just what we needed. It was so nice to be in a proper bed and have a room!!! Zak had great fun on the Cannonball Run course and ended up doing 72km of downhill riding in one day! Mel went up to the Mt Kosciosko Lookout (2000m up) - although she didn't have to walk all that way! Took the chairlift up and walked the rest! This is the highest mtn in Australia and so its a ...

Hi everyone. Hope you are all good and its not too cold for you all! Since we last wrote we finished the rest of the Great Ocean Road. After we moved on from Apollo Bay we headed to Jan Juc about 5km south of Torquay. The weather was amazing that day - they reckoned about 36 degrees! It was pretty muggy though and as expected the heat was followed during the night with a massive storm! Luckily we were in the van but we did feel for all the families who were ...

Sorry for not writing sooner, no excuses we've been slack! So since Port Macquaire, we travelled down the coast to Sydney going through Bonny Hills where Zak did some of the best surfing he has done yet, unfortunately no photographic evidence to show you guys. We stumbled across a place called Pacific Palms which is amongst the Myall Lakes National Park. It's an amazing spot with great surf, great beaches and beautiful surrounds. Although we were a bit reluct...

First stop in New South Wales was Byron Bay. Surprisingly enough Captain Cook has been here as well! We both loved Byron, it's got some really cool influences from art, music, yoga, surfing, etc, etc. It's pretty hippyish and the locals all seem very chilled but still have strong values (for example, they would not let McD's open a franchise here). First day was spent on the beach surfing and in the town window shopping. The second day Mel cleaned the van wh...