Hi there to one and all. Following on from Zoe's last blog entry I have a couple of items to add and one to amend. While on our Great Ocean Road trip we stopped at the 12 Apostles and viewed the rock towers. To the west of the Apostles was an arch which was imaginatively called "The Arch" - it seems we are some of the last people to have seen the Arch standing as it has now fallen down!When we finished on the GOR we headed up into the Grampians to go a...

Hello again. When Nick last wrote we were in Byron Bay and I had just spent a morning learning to surf!!! I was pretty rubbish and it was really hard work but so much fun!!! The next day I woke with really stiff shoulders and arms from trying to get the board far enough out to actually surf and big bruises on both knees from my very elegant attempts to actually stand up on the board! I did stand a few times though which I was quite proud of. Anyway, on with th...

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...

G'day (they really do say that here - it's great!!) Well, first off I'd like to dispell a myth. No, it isn't always sunny in Oz. Infact in the two and a half weeks we've been here we've only had 5 days of sun. I'm now convinced that all photo's of Oz with blue sky were created on Photoshop!! Anyway, on with the trip. We are now back to bussing it about carrying our backpacks, staying in hostels and socialising with other people!!! We arrived in Cairns late on ...

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...