On Friday we headed over the water to Manly which is one of the Northern beaches of Sydney. We spent a bit of time on the beach before walking around to Shelly Beach and out onto the point where we could look back across the beach. Unfortunately after lunch the weather turned on us so we beat a hasty retreat back to Sydney and headed to Paddy's markets to try and grab a bargain away from the rain. We then took the decision to leave Sydney a bit earlier than plann...

Hello Everyone, It's been a while since I last updated this journal as we've been pretty busy in the last week and a bit but I'll recap what we've been up to since the last entry. We left off in a rather rushed way in the small town of Waitomo which we were visiting for one reason, to go Black Water Rafting. The essence of which is sitting in a rubber ring and floating down a stream inside a cave so nto as dangerous as it sounds. Anyway it was pretty co...