Hi everyone, When Zoe signed off last week we had seen very little of the sun here on the east coast of Australia - that has yet to change! The weather has been a severe disappointment and details will emerge in due course. Zoe gave you the details of our trip to the Witsundays on board the Avatar - she neglected to mention one of our shipmates, a Canadian called Greg who was f**king nuts. He loved all the attention that his antics brought (splashing around and y...

Hi there to one and all from sunny Australia. As you know, we landed here last Tuesday having spent 2 months living in a small Hi-Ace camper van in NZ. It had started to turn cold and wet in NZ so we were looking forward to sun, sun, sun here in Oz - well apparently the stories are not all true and sometimes it rains in Sydney and sometimes it is chilly. We have experienced an amount of both but in the main it has been lovely weather. Mid Autumn weather on a g...

Hello All. Before I start I would like to put some minds to rest. Some of you have expressed concern over Nick's haircut comments in the last blog. I would like to assure you that there is no need to worry. Nick's hair is still a long, flowing mane, it was me who had the haircut not Nick. So, to continue the story… As Nick said last time, we planned to go Mountain Biking the day after he wrote the blog. We woke to beautiful sunshine and set of to the wood...