1/8/06 Left Canberra today for the bright lights of Sydney!! We made the most of the free brekkie at the yha then went to catch the greyhound bus. it only took 3 hours and we found a mega cheap hostle with free internet only bad thing is its dirty and smeels of feet but we can survive!!! we walked down george street to circular key and got our first viewing of the opera house and syney harbour bridge. it was dark and lit up with the city lights so w...

Sunday 27th August Got the 8.30am courtesy bus from town to Australia Zoo. Was about an hours drive away so we watched a Steve Irwin video on the way there. Poor Steve little did we know then what was going to happen to him. We got to feed an elephant named Siam in the morning. Throughout the day we saw a snake, bird and the famous crocodile shows. We also saw the beginning of the Tiger show but had to go and see the roos on our way back to the bus. Gave them a b...

Friday 21st July Long journey today to Dunedin. Was pretty wet and wndy but the sea looked amazing, some pretty huge waves. Stopped off just before sunset to see the penguins coming in from the sea to nest, it took them ages to waddle up the beach! Got to Dunedin and went straight to the Speights Brewery tour yummy! Speights was actually started by a Yorkshire man James Speight! At the end of the tour we got to taste the different beers, we got told by our ...

We woke up early and checked out of the st.kilda backpackers place and moved into the city centre. we then hopped onto the free red tram that takes you on the tour of the city centre and stopped off to do shopping, sorting out our bus tickets ad other boring things. we then went to Victoria Market where we discovered lots of yummy food and ate lots of it. if we ever move to oz we will end up really fat and wear revolting flowery dresses!!!!! We just shopp...

Thurs 6th July Got 8am bus to Hahai, did a supermarket stop on the way (saves money for lunches!). Arrived at 1pm. Went on a longish walk to Cathedral Cove, the weather kept raining on and off but it meant there were lots of really big rainbows which we thought was really cool. We have now seen one or more rainbows almost every day we have been here so they are not as exciting now! Had a play on the rope swing on Hahai beach on the way back. Had...