Awoke in the guest wing of the Ted & Beryl hotel. Great facilities and the staff were up and about preparing breakfast long before the guests surfaced. First stop is the shops for some essentials. Worked out the requirements for posting my parachute to Skydive Nagambie, purchased a PAYG phone while Nicola was increasing her stock of knickers and wine, a must for any travelling female. We nearly ended up in the Police station as well as the assistant had not ...

The flight to Perth was 09:05 which meant an early departure from the hotel. An uneventful journey saw us land in Australia 10 minutes late ready to tackle the stringent Customs and Border Control. In the event apart from the lengthy queues through passport control the main barrier was the dog and handler. As we have recently come from a farm in the UK it was an odds on certainty that we would be singled out for careful scrutiny but it is great that the country t...