Oaks Charlotte Towers Brisbane

... the river out to sea and to a gorgeous beach. We anchored up and had our lunch before going for a swimming in what felt like a bath it was so warm. O here’s a funny one, did anyone else know that sharks did number 2’s?? Well I know I can be a bit… well you all know me, but I didn’t know they did until Angie pointed some out on the beach. It was like a ball of clear, jellified snot ...

... the clocktower to get some views
of the city....only problem was we went up at 12 midday so we nearly fell out of
the top when the first bell went off, it was proper loud and scared the living
daylights out of us as we were not expecting it at all!! The rest of the day was
spent exploring the city, its a nice place with a pretty river running through
the middle, would probably be a good place to work as there seems to be a lot of
good ...

... long! I was staying at the Crown Plaza in Surfer’s Paradise, the most touristy/popular beach. I went to walk around the beach for a while totally amazed! The weather was about 32 degrees on Sunday and 34 degrees on Monday, but not humid at all so the heat was just lovely! I walked around the beach for a while as well as the shops at Surfer’s Paradise, and took an Extreme JetBoat ride… awesome!!! The boat (which just very conveniently happened to be driven by a very ...

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Otherwise life is good - we're catching up with friends and family and enjoying the Brissie winter (cloudless, top of early 20's everyday....). Attached are some photos from when we came into our house for the first time on our return to Oz, with Sue and Phil (L's folks).

Hope you've enjoyed the blog, but now we're home, the travels are over.

...for a little while anyway...

... I felt nothing but a sense of relief. Relief that I was actually leaving Brisbane and not just talking about it with my head in the sand hoping it would magically come to fruition.
Much to the disappointment of my older sister I didn't really produce
much emotion or try extend the goodbye to ensure that all best wishes and
good luck sentiments had been appropriately exchanged to the letter of social etiquette.
No doubt she would later sit and obsess over her speculative ...

... that night. Think Ibiza Uncovered and multiple it. There were hoards of teenage drunks roaming around in the rain, queuing to get into clubs that had a 2 - 2 ½ hour wait time and if you were a bloke wearing trainers and a t shirt, it was a pointless exercise as you weren't allowed in anyway. During the day Fortitude Valley is home to various winos that hang outside the adult shops and strip joints but on a weekend night, becomes the domain of the drunk ...

... the top floor and ground floor that had more mainstream music as I was worried it was all a bit heavy for Sam. We got in to the dancing thing and moved to the dance floor. I went to the bar for drinks and when I came back Sam was being spun round on the dance floor like a whirling dervish lol. A guy had asked her to dance who looked pretty straight and had a crew cut and was quite well built. She came off the dance floor for a drink and then he was ...

Jack: We got the bus to Lone Pine Koala sanctuary. The bus was late and we were first on and the driver didn't have enough change to give us so he let us go for free. There were a lot of animals at the Koala sanctuary, some of them were Koalas, some of them weren't koalas. We got the bus back but had to pay this time. Then we went to the super market and spent ages choosing some meat and fat to cook with and bread ...

... About as subtle as Captain Conway!)

I was thinking sometime in 2011 on a day that I can remember (11/11/11 or perhaps 12/12/12) in the chapel of the Diamond Princess...... We will just have to figure out how to get the wedding rings on board :)

... visiting Queen street and the Queensland State Library - before catching the ferry up and down the river. That evening we met up with some of Mike's extended family and reminisced about the good old days in Africa. Returning from Fraser island we had a day and a half to relax, fit in a run and generally mooch around. Returning from Airlie Beach, we caught Cat and Simon on a long week-end. Our first activity was a pizza supper on the way back from the airport. The ...