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Hello,
Ok so 2 weeks since we left Sydney the second time and we have come a long way!!!!
So we left Sydney and went to Nelsons Bay for the night. The guy who owned the campsite also nursed sick animals back to health. He had a Kangaroo called Josie looked a bit like the one in the picture above. It was really nice but a tried to attack my feet at one stage!!!! When we were there we also saw our first WILD Koala bear.
Over here everyone is crazy about meat pies!!!! They have lots of pie shops who jut have shelves of pies with different fillings!! We went to one recomended in our guide book. It was ok but tasted slightly mass produced!!!! Think i'll stick to the Yorksire pies!!!
It gets daqrk about 6pm here so we have been having quite a few early nights. There is only so many card games you cam play!!!
It is nice driving through all the different countryside on the way up. Today Iit was really warm and te countryside was more as i expected it would be in Aus. Fields and fields of brown grass with few trees with white bark and then random trees fallen over. Not sure why i had this image in my head. Must have been from some TV show!!!
It sweeed the rain was following us up from Sydney but abot a week ago in Bisbane we lost it and ever sine it has been amazing sunshine. However I have never seem rain like I have over here. It can be so so so heavy and go on for ages non stop!!!!
We liked Byron Bay it was very cosmopoliton. We did a nice walk there up to the lighthouse., We have got really unfit with working and not having time to walk soo trying to get back into it. We drove to Surfers Paradise where G was going to have a surfing lesson but we got there and did not like it at all. It was very high rise (not what we were expecting). Seemed quite run down as well. I think we were expectign 'Paradise'and it wasn't there!!!!!We therefore carried on to Brisbane.
Loved Brisbane. We found a local swimming pool so went swimming a couple timwes while we were there. It was a 50 m pool and each time we did 12 lengths. I thight that was prety good!!! We went out for really nice meal as well which was a nice treat. We did a guided walk around the city whic took us past all the 'points of interest'. Was very interesting. We really liked Brisbane. There seemed to be a lot goin on. Music in the streets etc. Also went to the cinema wile we were there. saw the Proposal. Very funny!!!The cinem was in the most beautifl building. All the ceilings were painted and more. Amazing.
On our way up we visited the glass mountins near Colounra which were good. Bit like the blue mountains really.
G bought a fishing rod and has done quite a bit of fishing. Well I should say tried. He only seems to be able to catch tiny ones!!!!!He enjoys it though.
G finally did his surfing lesson in Noosa. He was really good. He stood up and he really really enjoyed it. Just needs to practice some more. We eally liked Noosa as well. Lots of nice shops and cafes.
Drove to Rainbow beach where we stayed in aNational Park. In there it is like proper camping where you ae allowed fires etc and they are generally right on the beach. So we did some fishing and then spend the evening toasting marshmellows on the BBQ.
Following day we drove to Hervey Bay where we did a trip to Fraser Island from. We did a 2 day tour to Fraser Island. There were only 6 of us on the tour so it was really good. Our guide was great as was the weather. The Island was beautiful. Mush bigger than we expected and much more vegetation. We thought it was just a big beach!!!!! had great fun.
Now we are in Mackay on our way to Airlie Beach where we are doing a 2 ay sailing trip around the Whitsundays. Can't wait for that.
Hope everyone is well at home. Geoge and I have decided to go back to Sydney in Jan to work out our visa's. We therefore won't be back until March. Hope you can all wait that long to see us!!!!!!!!
Lots of love xxxxxxx
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