Sat. Feb. 24 If the hostel has one drawback, it's the amount of noise in the area around it. There was construction, traffic, birds, etc. It made us get up early anyway. I wanted to swim in the pool before breakfast but the gate was still locked. After breakfast, we had a swim then took the free bikes out for a ride. They weren't in the greatest...

Jim got up early this morning and we went to the beach to check it out. There was a swimming pool right in the ocean. What an amazing experience to swim laps while huge waves crashed over the retaining wall into the pool! I generally hate swimming in salt water, but this was really cool. There were people of all ages swimming and it was such a g...

At 6:30, we got up, took a shower and packed up for our last day of the tour. I can't wait to be able to sleep in again - too many early mornings on this tour. After breakfast, we boarded the bus and headed to Wentworth Falls. It was so beautiful. We hiked a trail through the bush to get to the falls, where we waded in the cool water and checked...