Finally left Sydney and hopefully the rain...It was still pouring down when we left but thankfully we were picked up outside the hostel by our new Oz driver Steady. We left Sydney to make our way to 'surf camp' in Awarrawa. On the way we stopped of in Port Maquarie to have the best chips I have had in ages! A lovely port and the sun was shining! After our lunch we made our way to this bizarre surf 'museum' more like a shack with some surf memorabi...

Arrived in Sydney around 4.30pm and checked into Base Backpackers, which has a wicked location right in the centre of the city. On our first night we chilled out at the hostel before going to the local backpackers bar, The Scary Canary for farewell drinks with the guys from our initial Oz Experience tour. The following day we woke up and familiarised ourselves with the city. We took a walk down George Street & Pitt Street (two of the main shopping areas) and ...

Katie: We made our way today to the Australian capital Canberra. Not much of a capital city to be honest, it was a place that was completely designed to be a capital city when they couldn't decide between making it Sydney or Melbourne. Canberra definately has a reputation with a lot of Australians of being pretty dull & it was quite easy to see why, there was not much to do there apart from go and see the Parliament building & to drive up ANZAC road t...

After another early start we left Lakes Entrance at sunrise to make our way along the Snowy River to get to Jindabyne. We had an interesting drive along a very narrow dirt road up a steep hill (...mum you would have hated it!). We spent a lot of the journey looking at how close the wheels of the bus were to the edge of the hill! We drove through some tiny villages that were built up the hill in which only 6 people lived. We also saw a hung dog outside someones ho...

Katie:We left Melbourne nice and early at 5am to pick up our first Oz Experience bus to start our trip up the east coast of Australia. There was 20 other travellers on the bus, quite a few people our age from England which was nice. It was good to be with other people as we learnt lots about what to do in Australia from their experiences. We drove first to an old gold mining town called Foster and then to the Southern most point of Australia, Wilsons Promontory. ...