Blog 4:

Hello and welcome to the fourth Instalment of our travels. Another long one. Two things before I tell you all, massive congratulations to BOTH my sisters who are now engaged. Whoooohooooo. 2nd is if your reading our blogs leave a message on the message wall to let us know if your enjoying our stories (and check out the photos on the photo page)

Our 4th segment starts with arriving at Bryan bay late evening. We cooked up some pasta using the onboard cooker for the 1st time. We then went up to a lighthouse to watch a electric storm which was so expressive. Both girls were scared to walk up as it was pitch black and a windy path but their hunky strong boyfriends protected them. Nick gave me a quick lesson on taken photos, and we messed around for a little. On the way back to the van we walked passed a guy who had a camera set up on a tripod, I asked him "any good photos" he replied "no, not sure what I'm doing" so for the next few minutes I talked him through everything nick had taught me ten minutes earlier and sounded like such a expert!!!!
(Johanna here) even though he had taught the guy we still left without him having a good photo lol! We headed back down into the town to look for availability at a campsite but it was closed, so we all decided to camp on the side of the road near another jucy van. Went for a wonder in to town, before hitting the sack because we where all knackered from our long drive.
Up at the crack of dawn again woken by nick and dan because every movement rocked the whole van, they were heading out for a run. When they got back we all had a shower at the beach outdoors freezing cold shower, all with our shampoo and shower gel with onlookers thinking were crazy but good to freshen up.
We all then had an amazing day on the beach where the boys rented a surfboard, they were off more than on lol. Still holding competition between Tom and I, he's hating it.
After getting fried on the beach we sneaked in to a nomads hostel for a cheeky hot shower and used their kitchen to make yet again more pasta. To get even get more freebies we listen to a talk about kiwi experience and we got two free glasses of goon and cheese, amazing when all you've eaten is pasta we were in luxury.
We then had pre drinking games in the camper van with goon and UNO before hitting the town. First stop was karaoke nicks heaven due to wanting to sing kings of Leon, we all pushed for him to Sing. Nervous nick due to a girl killing it with the song 'sweat drip down my balls' nicsk turn had come. Tom and I where in shock with how amazing he was, all three of us screaming. You would of thought he was famous, a girl on the way to the toilet told Tom she'll have to hold her pee because she was that impressed. After nicks amazing song we headed onwards getting our goon out the bush we headed to cheeky monkeys and partied the night away on tables. Tom had a dance with his slippers on and boogied with a big guy on the main table. After the great evening, we got a cheeky kebab which was sooooo amazing still frothing now.
hungover next morning we all woke having such a wicked night. I went into OCD mode and cleared the campervan out, when doing so nick aka ray mears noticed a bird had been hit by a car and went to save it from getting squashed but wasn't in a good way. Nick and dan left it under a nearby tree. After Tom preparing the lunch and me cleaning we went and caught up with dan and nick on the beach and rented a surfboard again. Tom and I went for romantic walk along beach and climbed a lookout which had an amazing view.
After all getting very sunburnt we sneaked back in to nomads again but this time made a delicious stir fry. Dan wasn't feeling to good we think sunstroked but after a little rest we all headed out again to a club called la la for happy hour drinks and then moved onto cocomangers where there was a pole dancing competition . Girls were ok but when competition was over we all had a go and saw how difficulty it was. Until tom with his sneaky hobby had a go, he was wicked we should of all entered him in and we would of won $200. went back to campervan for early night mine and toms turn in the penthouse it stunk of fish up there everyone hates it when it's their turn.
Last day in Byron bay it was raining it was probably for the best all looking like lobsters. We hung out at nomads where tom found really cheap deal for Fraser island and Whitsunday but was an old website we tried to dispute it with head office but ended up leaving the hassle. We went for calamari and chips in town, where Tom met Paul on the way, manager of indie travel shop and from London he hooked us up with a good deal for Fraser island and Whitsunday and Tom's charm got us 2 beach balls and a frisby thrown in.
the trip hit as all hard on the budget but we all knew we had 2 do both tours because of everyone staying it was a must do at home. So with both tours booked we headed out of Byron bay late evening towards hervey bay we stopped off at surfers paradise where the sun began to set over the beach very romantic. we would all have loved to have shopped but all on strict budget so we had a stroll and window shopped instead after spending only an hour there we went back to our car to find two ticket wardens giving the car behind ours a ticket, tom asked if they could use our ticket, but they both weren't happy so we wrote a little note saying to use our ticket and dispute that it blew off the dash board and signed it peace love and harmony lol. Leaving surfers paradise I drove to noosa heads where we camped for the night in a car park with other camper vans. Pouring down with rain the boys were legends for cooking our dinner in the rain (especially tom as ray mears went inside after his ankles got wet lol). They cooked out the back of the camper in torrential rain with the burning incense to get rid of all the mossy after a lovely dinner of canned dog food 'mince in a can' and pasta we all went to bed to shattered from the drive and having to wake early to get to hervey bay. During the next morning waking up we were all woken with a loud knocking. it was a really friendly council guy to friendly for that time of the morning letting us know that we shouldn't be camping there, and that he understood that it was difficult see the signs last night because it was pitch black in a forest and the heavy rain. So we woke an hour after he let us know and packed up the camper van and had a quick walk on the beach due to the weather not being so nice, we also went for a quick stroll down in to town and done some window shopping. Only small town though 5min walk either side after that we headed on our way to Harvey bay to check in and meet the group for Fraser island. (hello Thomas here) We parked up and checked in to the Fraser roving hostel. We had a team meeting at 6. We met our tour guide for the "self drive" largest sand island 4x4 tour in the world (also heavily patrolled by wild and sometimes dangerous Dingos), his name was Adrian but nicked named Santa due to his appearance, small, big belly and a massive half white beard. The other half was yellow due to the roll up cigarettes he smoked, quite a epic appearance if you ask me. He knew every swear word under the sun, but that added to his laid back "time doesn't matter" personality. We met our group but no one was that friendly or chatty. Once finished the paper work and finished the safety video everyone went off for the evening. We purchased some rice, korma sauce and hotdogs. Nick had told me he could cook rice as I'm only a expert thanks to Michael and Ashley using the microwave. Nick cooked around 5kg or rice for four people which could of fed 100. Jo managed to save some before it turned in to porridge, which saved the dinner. In the morning I quickly paid our automatic Brisbane toll fee on my credit card. We all meet up in the reception where we then jumped in to our lovely pink 4x4. Yes bright pink 4x4, there were 11 of us in the group, which only meant two 4x4s. Santa conveniently had a nice white 4x4. I jumped in the drivers seat and drove us to the local supermarket. The 4x4 was older then me, had a very stiff gear box and pedals. And was bright pink!!!! We all put $25 in to a pot, where I then witnessed the best lesson in how to shop ever, Santa flew around the supermarket barking orders what to run off and get, throwing all sorts of food in to the trolley, and before i new it we had shopped for 11 people for 3 days in under 10 minutes, I was laughing my head off. Jo dan nick and I spend on average 30 Minutes in a supermarket for one meal for four of us... We stocked up on goon and meat. Then nick drove in more heavy rain to the dock, there where beware of crocodile signs, quite exciting I thought. Bad weather looked like it was going to ruin our camping trip on Fraser island. 30 minute boat trip got us on to Fraser island. I took the wheel and we engaged 4x4. The roads where bumpy and wet, I was lovely driving, but the other 5 in the car were a little worried for their lives. I could feel there tension. I drove through a few large mud holes avoiding getting stuck, to our first lake. Lake wobbly, a 20 minute jungle walk brought us up to a amazingly steep downslope sand dune into a lake full of large and small catfish. I dived in followed by Jo and nick. Dan didn't feel like a swim, 10 minutes later Dan was being attacked by a few horse flys, she was dancing and swatting like a crazy women, half Michael Jackson half micheal flattery. We then went back to the 4x4 and drove to lake Allen. Had another dip then went and saw the famous island's ship wreck, history was quite interesting. The boat was being shipped to new zealand and crashed in a storm, was then used for a bombing target practice. Few photos and back driving on the wet sand to our camp site, which was in a dingo safe "pen", electic floor cattle grid style entrance (made me think how dangerous are these animals). We set up our tents 2 per person. Set up the camp table and Jo and dan cooked the meat under supervision from Santa on the free BBQ. Had a lovely meat dinner followed by a few hours of silly drinking games. Was good fun as we all got to know each other and the group jelled. Woke up in the middle of the night with ray mears putting extra tarporling on top of our tents due to it raining so much. What a legend. Woke up, quick breakfast, packed out tents away and off we went to the next lake in our 4x4. Because there was only one car available for everyone to drive we all had to share. This was a bit of a bummer as we didn't have long driving over the three days. Nick had a epic drive in the rain up two a tea tree lake, which the colour I the water was a dark yellow once in the water, when swimming under and opening your eyes it was like a horror film, so Scrazy!!! Before we all diving In to the pool, Santa picked a few baby and daddy turtles of the river bank, we all had a hold and took photos. He then said, don't put any pictures up on Facebook as its illegal, Lol. I don't think he knows how addictive Facebook really is. Jo drove back down the mountain in heavy rain, which was as fun as scary. The girls got balls. We made good friends with kris, who was a female travelling on here own from Canada. Our age and the girls got on really well with her. Nick and i enjoyed terrorising her. We also made good friends with two friends from Paris. We then headed to the famous champagne pools, the rock pools get there name due to the sea water exploding over the rock pool edges forming lots of form/froth. Hence the name champagne pools. We all had a dip and nick got a few small stings from a blue jelly fish so we all hoped out and dried off in the sun. we had a two minute drive to the also famous Indian head look out point where on a calm day you can't apparently see, turtles and lots of tiger sharks, we didn't see either. Took some cool photos, while the girls werent looking nick and I sneaked out on to a rock edge to take some photos, a long drop if the wind had blow us off!!! We stopped of at Eli creek where we floated down a river on our backs, which was cool. Evening was apon us and a different tour company place adventures had space at the camp site so we arrected our tents and santa got dinner on the way. The place members where a lot different to us, around 40 people all under 23...which was weird as there werent friendly at all!!! The camp was not in a dingo safe area so we were on high alert for dingos coming close for food. Before we had the chance to eat we had chased two dingos out of the camp, quite a matshow thing as the men ran after the dingos waving sticks in the air. We all got envoled in the Fraser Island olympics which consisted of some crazy dinking games. England beat the rest of the world in the final!! Get in there... We then split from the larger group to play some more dinking games with santa, before we knew it, I was lying down with Jo, nick, dan and Krissy all lying on a part of my body, shooting star watching and singing away to what ever song someone's crazy mind thought of. The stars where absolutely amazing, no light pollution and no moon which meant the starts where even brighter. What a wicked night. Went to bed very drunk and very happy. Woke up at 5.30am to our wake up call to "watch" the sun rise, but the sunrise was blocked by the clouds, the horse flys terrorised us. Santa told us how when he woke up there where 5 dingos chilling outside tents on the sand banks. We packed up and headed to Birrabean lake I beat nick in a swimming race, due to nick swallowing large amounts of water as he was two stokes away from the finish line. We all went on a 2 km jungle walk thought a dingo area to reach some massive sand dunes which were so impressive. We then headed to the best lake on the island called lake mc kenzie. This lake has two small beaches and amazingly crystal clear water. We all messed around and nick finally put his slr camera in his under water bag to take some great photos. We had lunch surrounded by kookaburras and giant goainas. We jumped back in the 4x4s and drove back on to the ferry. We had seen so much and learnt so much, Santa our tour guide was one in a million, he had been attacked by a crocodile, massive bite scar and nearly had his leg chopped off due to flesh eating disease, survived a car crash were he broke three ribs and his knee is now in a locked state, been dropped in the forest for a month alone for a bet with mates and swore like a trooper!!! He was a legend. We got back to the hostel were we had a chilled out evening after having such long and busy days, kris was also booked in to our hostel room which was cool. Next morning we said goodbye to kris and found out that the two french friends we had made had also booked spank me and were booked on for the same dates. We set off for a Long drive to airlie beach where we are taking the Whitsunday boat trip, made it but drove throught crazy rain to get there. Started dinner in a lay by just outside of airlie beach, Dan and nick herd some Scrazy notises from the bushes so we packed up and shoot off lol. To scared to cook so we got mc D's in airline beach. We parked up on a quite road at 1am all exhausted from the all day drive, we woke up at 6.30am to a Parking ticket for $200 for camping on the road side, on our wind screen!!! Nightmare. We sent of a email to contest it. Stating that we weren't camping and only airing it out while staying with friends in the apartments opposite (email is worth a try) . Checked in to our Boat trip called "Spank me" which used to be a racing boat. It was a bit of a Stressful morning, parking ticket, had to phone jos bank which a pay phone terriosed us Ahhhh. We parked up and then went to the check in point on the marine, we were all giving stinger suits aka wet suits and told that everytime we went in the water we had to wear the suits otherwise we would have to pay for any medical treatment needed from jelly fish stings. Bit worrying but laughted at the fact. We went meet our captian, captian Kevin. Balled round bellied and quite assertive. He took us onboard the spank me. we all had to sit on the deck like school kids for a induction to the boat. Kevin was barking at his poor cook, a English girl called Katie would looked 18 years old. "get me a coke darling", he called everyone daring and sweetie, what a creep!!! Kevin must of smoked 6 cigerrates while sterngingly telling us about the rules of his boat, he would of made a get loutentent I tell you. Once he was finished we all ran to get the best bunks, Jo and I choose a top bunk at the front of the boat which had a close-able but was open roof, we thought that would be amazing to sleep and lie back and watch shoring stars. We stinger suited up and boarder the small dingy which captian sleazily kevin was asking each girl as there were coming down the boat steps backwards, " whats the name of my boat" and then pretending to spank all the women. We went for our first snorkel, which was fun but the corral wasn't very impressive, lack of colour and large fish. Snorkelled for around 40 minutes and where all tired so back on the boat for a bit of a sunbathing before another long and strict talk which everyone had to listen two. Once Kevin had finally realised that no one cared about what ever he was rambling on about he got offended, stood up and said, " you don't have to listen, I was just entertaining until dinner was ready" it was like watching a upset 5 year old. We all quickly said no we are listening and 5 minutes later god answered everyones prays but having dinner ready. We had a massive portion of spag bowl, which reminded us of home as both mine and jos parents make a mean spag bowl. Once dinner was over we all opened the cooler box which had everyone's drinking stock for the two days. We had two bags of goon, that's 8 litters for 4 for tonight's maybe a bit over the top, but we ran out in Fraser island and didn't want to risk it lol. We had a few drinks and met everyone properly which was nice, everyone in this group was our age. As we had had a stressful morning and tiring day we hit the sack nice and early. Jo and I spooned looking up at the stars which was absolutely amazing. We were woken up at 6am again (not a holiday time to wake up if you ask me) we set sail (when I say sail I mean the fat lazy smoking captain turned on the motor engine. Nick and I were both excited and looking forward to having a hands on experience of sailing a large boat, no chance! We asked to raise the main sail, captain Birdseye said no due to not having enough experienced people to help. We headed over on the dingy to whitsundays main island called Whitsunday island lol. We were told to have a walk up too the look out point at the beginning and end of our three hour stay on the island due to the tides impressive strong holds. Kevin told us that there where many types of sharks, turtles and stingrays be careful swimming. Kevin also told us that the island was one of its only kind due to the sand been made up off 98% cillacon, which could be used to exfoliate skin, whiten teeth, clean real silver and destroy cameras!!! We took some amazing photos of the high tide over the amazing white beach then headed down. The sand was so soft, we took all our trade mark pictures, the girls jumping, my hand stands and nicks weird face expressions. We walked to the tip of the beach with the four of us the lovely french crew an our new friends Kelsey and nick a couple from canada. Jo and I have meet so many Canadians on our travels so far. There were are age and where a good laught. We had the famous pyramid beach photo taken with the amazing back ground, took some random photos and took it in turns diving and getting out of the water extremely quickly as none of us had our wet suits. We saw a few large shadows of sting rays swim past us, and saw a few small white sharks which was a great experience. I turned around to take some photos and when i turned back I saw dan cleaning her teeth with a small bit of sand on her finger, looking in the reflection of nicks glasses she thought here teeth we're whiter. Before you knew it everyone in our group was cleaning there teeth. Jo made me laugh so much, she didn't have a small bit of sand she had half the beach in her mouth and was really going to town!!! Legend. Back up to the look out point and back on spank me, arrived to a massive bowl of cookies and a cup of tea was amazing. Tea was nice nothing like the IT boys make in wembley :-). we headed to another snorkel destination which was a lot better, only three girls decided to squba dive due to the price of $60 for 40 minutes. The coral was a little more colourful and there were a few huge fish swimming around the boat, nicks got some great photos and quality videos. We were aloud to dive off the boat which was cool. That was the last snorkel dive of the day so out came the goon. We played and taught our version of UNO to the group we had created. A swedish girl joined us, she had been travelling for a year and a half but yet still had some cracking blonde questions which were taken all the wrong way, a few, "are there dolphins in the water, is it going to rain tomorrow, what times sunset" all good questions but so easly laughted at. After dinner we played some drinking games that we had learnt on Fraser island. We all were quite tippys quite easly due to the long and tiring day. We asked Kevin to put some music on, which he agreed only if he liked it and it's wasn't any "fast boom boom rubbish". Lol. We all went to bed quite early. Another amazing clear night under the stars. Which you could easly see the souther cross and parts of the milky way. Just simply beautiful. Again we where woken up nice and early around 5.30 for a cloudy sunrise and then 6am was time for a morning snorkel, each snorkel got better. More colourful coral and bigger fish. This snorkel a few of us where sure we had been mildly stung by jelly fish, we saw a few while snorkelling but were told it's the transparent ones that can kill which is no calming news lol. I cut my toe quite deeply on a sharp clam on a rock, I couldnt help thinking about sharks being attracted to the smell of blood. Ahhhh we finished snorkelling and had breakfast before "sailing" home. We got back to the harbor at 10.30 and felt we had been away for days. We parked and paid to stay in a nomads hostel car park, $20 for the camper van a night got us full access to the sites resources, swimming pool, bar and kitchen. We went for a bit in the lagoon, a large swimming pool. Made dinner and hit the town. We went to a club which had had a jelly wrestling evening on, shame we missed it... But a random couple dived in and were joined by friend which was halarious. The bounces soon dragged them out thought. As we were setting alight to the dance floor with our moves, some drunk guy knocked over two glasses filling our flip flops, although all shaking them out I managed to badly cup up the bottom of my left foot to add to the large coral slit. We raved the evening away and some how got split from Dan and nick who I think went back before us. As we were skipping home we bumped in to a English couple called Paul and Emma. We had a few drinks with them and Jo fell in to a deep sleep outside our campervan which took me some real shaking to wake her up. Emma woken on a remote Whitsunday island cleaning boats once they've been out of day trips, and paul apparently had friends with boats which he invited us to go on the next day. Next day we chilled out at the lagoon again and pottered around town, Paul's friend had flopped so no free speed boat trip :-( Paul had told us that his mum is one of the highest event managers for the reading festival, so definitely someone to make friends with. Paul and Emma met up with us in the evening and we went out again after having some goon. We went to a few bars then a club called Africa. Partied the night away and left Paul and Emma at the bar. Paul had again said about going out on his mates boat in the morning, but we didn't hold our breathes lucky as the next day no news from Paul. We took a drive to the local waterfall, which was impressive to say the least. A large pool which had the waterfall falling from about 40 feet. Took some epic photos jumping off a small rock beside the waterfall. Some local lads were jumping of the top of the waterfall, which was half impressive and half bloody crazy. We then took a 5 minute walk in the wooded area to the top of the waterfall. Where nick and I were contemplating about jumping off. Jo wasn't to happy about the idea, as there was a few signs about jumping was prohibited and dangerous. Jo nick and dan were attacked by Mosquitos with Jo getting bitten 17 times in 5 minutes. Jo and dan were working themselves up trying to protect them from more bites. We go to the top of the waterfall out of the mosquito area. We walked over to one small stream and Jo slipped over quite badly and hurt her little toe, lucky only her little toe, although it blew up and started to bleed straight away. Poor Jo, she's always hurting herself on holiday. We hobbled down back through the mosquito area, leaving nick and dan at the top, where nick was still considering the epic jump. A few lads were cheering nick on from the bottom but nick just couldn't jump. I would of 200% jumped if poor Jo hadn't of hurt her toe.... ;~> we drove back to the hostel to find someone had pinched our camper van towels. We couldn't afford to pay for the lost of our towels, so I borrowed two other peoples towls, and forgot to return them hehe. We had a epic drive up to cairns so we cracked on. Danielle did a amazing 3 & 1/2 drive until she ran over a large frog, hitting it square on. She had a small break down as shes a bit of a hippy, (which we all laughed at the next day, she was really tired too). We ran out of petrol in a small town called inginam where there petrol stations closed at 12. We saw two guys walking so we pulled over to ask them where we could stay, by the time we were too close not to speak to them we notice they were local drunk aboraganees. I was so scared, although they were so happy and helpful. I had heard stories that they were aggressive drunks so I was sitting on my wallet lol. I was sitting on the furthers part of my seat possible to the window. We asked a police officer where we could camp for the evening and he said anywhere. So we camped opposite the petrol station for the night. Woke up and filled up. Hit the road a small two hour drive brought us to a small cairns which we didn't expect. There were many aborigines walking around with no shoes on. I expected cairns to be like sydney and Melbourne. Very mistaken. We filled and cleaned the jucy can before returning it to the cairns drop off location. When we dropped of the van, Danielle complained about the smell and dampness we had to endure whist on the road. The guy said we had to email head office, although he gave us $15 to compensate the cleaning and purchase of febreeze. Wasn't what we hoped for but paid for our cab to our hostel. We asked the cabbie to drop us of at the nomads, but when we arrived we were miles away from the centre, he kindly took us to the main street where we walked around and were handed a 1/2 price 1st night promotion, on the way to that hostel we checked out another hostel which we booked in for three nights, swimming pool, gym, cossy rooms, clean kitchen and very cheap, perfect. We walked around cairns central which is not as clean as Melbourne and Sydney. There were many aborigines sitting around the small parks and looking at us travellers in disgust. Went and had a swim in the lagoon then cooked up some amazing faheaters. We munched away and slept well. Woke up and headed to the lagoon. We all went to check our mail, i had received a email from the parking authority, I was nervous and excited to open the email. I clicked it to open it to read, "dear mr pereira, we would like to inform you that we have dropped the parking ticket issued and you do not need to take any further action!!!! Whoooohoooo we all high fived and breathed a sigh of relief. Just saved $50 each. Yeah baby. nick and I wanted to get a hair cut but were on a budget. Nick spotted a trainee hair dressers with the cheapist cut in town. We sat down and signed our lives away for a $10 cut. I had a old guy and nick had a lovely chinese women. After about a hour of my guy telling me his life stories I was finished to look over to see nick not looking too happy. Nicks lady in nicks opinion had completely messed it up. He wasn't a happy chappy. He had the teacher try and correct it as much as possible and didn't have to pay the $10. Dan and I took the mickey out of nick before we put him on sucide watch. Quite funny!!!! We headed to the lagoon to catch some last rays in oz. Dan and nick went and checked out a free Zumba course, we followed to meet nick coming to get us to get involved. We all zumbed which was wicked, there must of been around 200 or more people doing it. Nick and I were messing around and having fun, while Jo was getting it to it and dan was taking it extremely serious. Best moment was I did a handstand while 200 people are watching the zumba teacher and following each other lol. Watch out for the photo. We headed back to the hostel for our last dinner and night together. We had a mission to try kangaroo and we successful ticked it off our list to do. Jo and I cooked up a kangaroo and pasta which was superb. Before dinner myself and nick had hit the hostel gym were we made friends with a swedish guy called Simon. We had dinner with simon and his two mates, victor and alex. We had some goon while we all got ready, and then went down to the swedish lads rooms. We played a few drinking games and were taught how to play shimmy shimmy, a loud drinking clapping number game. Was wicked until we were told to be quite by night management. We hit the town and walked in too pj odovens to watch the end of a pole dancing completion. Had a great night signing and dancing with the boys. Simon lost in a dance off with a local women! Quality.... Next day woke up with a small goon hang over. Had breakfast and said our goodbyes to Nick and dan as there were on track with the week ahead plans. Seeing as we had run out of money in our budget in cairns we changed our flights to leave Aus a week earlier. We had two days chilling in the lagoon, and chilling watching band of brothers with the Swedish boys before getting on our flight to Sydney then to Auckland.

Thought about our travels in aus, the month has been amazing, we've seen so much and met so many people, drove over 5,000 miles, been from wallaroo to cairns, had amazing sun and crazy rain. Seen lots of wildlife especially road kill kangaroo. We meet some aboriginals and cooked kangaroo. Jo and I have had a amazing spontaneous time travelling Aus, everything we wanted.... next episode New Zealand.

Sorry that some of the stories aren't as epic as the deserve to be. Been lazy and written the blog in massive segments instead of keeping on top of it daily / weekly. Hope you still enjoyed it though. Next blog auckland north island... Whoooohoooo T&j x