Hello there chilly peeps!!

Haven't written a blog for a little while now so just going to scoot to the main features in the last couple of weeks which were definately our trip to Fraser Island today and Australia Zoo on Monday. Although we have still been making our way up slowly but surely and doing awesome things on a ridiculously regular basis...

However the main event has been going on back in good old Jersey where my wonderful Brother has now qualified as a Jersey Lawyer, we could not be happier and are certainly feeling his relief all the way from OZ...He deserves this time of celebration, every single second of it!! Not only that but Carla and Kim passed too...the hardest exams in the universe..and we know a lot of people who can vouch for that and they have passed...outstanding!!

The Queensland beaches so far have not been as outstandingly beautiful as those in NSW (the one in the pic is Lake McKenzie in FI) but they are wide and long with some great surf for Tim to go crazy in!! We braved the Gold Coast...Surfer's Paradise which wasn't really our cup of tea but the waves were awesome and the beach was very pretty...although the high rises right on it were slightly offputting, think a bit posher than Benidorm!!

Brisbane is HOT, HOT, HOT! But we really did love the South Bank where they actually have a man made beach, very appealing in the humidity. Stayed in an great campsite that took 10 mins to get into town on a bus..yes you read correctly I went on a bus...!! Still a long way from beating Melbourne in our hearts though...a very long way! Onto Glass House Mountains which are certainly worth a detour fomr the STEVE IRWIN Way! Stayed in a place called Dicky Beach, where the campsite was not nice but we met 2 great girls, both called Em, who were travelling and working a whole year in OZ.

The Australia Zoo...which was worth every penny of the pretty crazy entrance fee of $49 each!! The enclousures are beautiful...well thought out, holding some very happy animals. It's a massive 73 acres right now but in the next 5 years it will grow to over 300 which will be pretty impressive! Walking through the Red Kangaroos , stopping to feed them then onto the Koalas where there was a lovely woman called Robyn who taught us loads about them...I love them even more now...if that's possible?!! And I finally learnt the pouch/giving birth thing. They are the size of jelly Beans after a very short gestation period of under a month that crawl up into the Joey puch and hang there for about 6 months eating the mother's poo inorder for them to get used to the toxins in the eucalyptus and form antibacterials in the systems before they pop their heads and go, go, go...! Thought I'd prove this trip is actually teaching us some stuff too!!

Fed some Elephants then off to The Crocoseum that seats 5000, for the famous show...which is absolutley fabulous in every way and left Tim wishing he could work there! Behind the show stands there is a beautiful memorial to Steveo and a wonderful museum of his and his families work...pretty aweinspiring to tell the truth! wandering around all the Alligators and Crocs...watching people walk Wombats..it was 7 hours before we realised we hadn't stopped... CRIKEY!!,,and by the way everyone...CROCS RULE!!!

Now we're here in Rainbow Beach, which is beautiful...the cliffs are all sorts of different colours and basically it's because of rusting but there is a lovely aboriginal story about a rainbow fighting a boomerang that had been sent to kill a girl....the boomerang and rainbow crashed into each other, the boomerand died..which is the cliff and the rainbow is said to be bleeding on top...see a much more romantic version!

Fraser Island the largest sand island in the world and is very bumpy and I'm not exaggerating...we were in 6 seater 4 wheel drives and we were all over the shop...driving on the beach at 90kmph was exhilerating and you soon forgot about the sicky feeling. We went up to Central station...walking through a stunning rainforest, that had a beautfil creek flowing through it, that you won't be able to see in photo's as it is such clear water! Then a nice, big, fat carpet python sitting in a tree..the first our guide had seen in 5 years doing this job!! We were in a car with a really lovely couple who lived in Africa till 2003 and used to keep lions in their house...they ran a private sanctuary and had some amazing stories to tell along with the driver who was form Zimbabwe...so a day of learning and asking questions for both of us!

Lake McKenzie is out of this world...warm, clear freshwater that you could drink...it can't be described and the pics certainly don't do it justice. A stunning lunch there...then we headed back to 75mile beach for more beach driving that was a lot less testing as the tide was low...tea and cookies back on Rainbow Beach...an impressive day and a ridiculously impressive island...

Off to Bundaberg tomorrow and we don't know how long we'll be there because we need to book to see the turtles..it's not a stupicly commercial thing or tour...you just have to book through the conservation people in order not to disturb them laying there eggs at Mon Repos. So that is very exciting and from what we have heard a completely amazing experience. We are currently a few hundred k south of Airlie where we will be for Christmas so got a leisurely week ahead of us trying to find some acco in this crazy season...!

We have decorated our van...on a budget...interesting! We have a little stocking each and some tacky cheap rope lights and some tinsel..so at least it's a bit more Chirstmassy!!

Sorry for going on so much and we hope you enjoy reading about our crazy days!

Heaps of love and keep those messages coming...it's gone a little quiet people!!

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