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... Square looking at an old windmill that they used to hang convicts from, we got a lift to the top of the Town Hall, we saw the Shrine of Rememberance and St Stevens Cathederal.

Once we'd stopped by Parliament House we caught a ferry over to South Bank, where there was a lovely walk through a huge arch covered in bright purple Bourgonvillia along side the river. We looked around the museum which had a display of animals organised from smallest (ants and bugs etc) to largest (Bears etc).

... access we checked on emails, banking and worked on this blog for a while. We noticed that nearly everyone of the overseas travellers in the park seemed to be using Skype to talk to folk at home and that most of them were in hired campervans.

A luxuriously hot shower was last on the day's agenda andthen sweet dreams in the van. By the way the bed is perfect!

... opening.

Leaving Kalgoorlie-Boulder we headed overnight across the Nullarbor Plain and towards the middle of Australia. Also at KB we picked up a few more passengers which meant that I now had somebody sitting next to me. Waking up on the morning of the second day I opened my eyes only to be glared by the sunshine and once I could focus I looked out the window to see the sun rising over the deserts of Nullarbor Plain. This was the other post card view people have of Australia ...

... do get the jobs we will have to leave Brisbane and move to the Gold Coast by next wednesday! if we dont get the jobs then we will go back out on monday and apply at every restaurant and bar we can find in Brisbane - we've noticed that most of the stores we've applied at are hiring for Christmas and wont start until mid september or even december

well thats all for now

i hope everyone is ok and i love you all

xo

... buses have right of way here. And then it started to get a bit confusing....but the way back to the motorway appeared and we went back on to it and travelled the next few kilometre until the scenic turnoff to surfers paradise appeared...we had finally arrived....4 hours after the start of our journey ...

... to take shape, or so I am hoping. Our return trip is on 26th January 2010 and I had naively presumed that I could change the flights to an earlier date so that Christie could be back in time to start work on January 11th, which is what had been agreed. Well I was WRONG! It’s because our flights were such a bargain that there are no equivalent fares of the same class anywhere near the dates we want to return. The possibility of cancelling and rebooking is looking very ...

... room and even the 'dunny'; but seeing a ship like that loom out of the darkness is pretty breath-taking. As a consolation to the increadibly poor conditions the dive company gave us a dvd of what it is like to dive the Brisbane when you have the usual 20-30m visibility - and yes we would like to come back and do it in the light! A fishing invite by Kelsey (Suzi's flat mate) and her family, saw us (and Suzi's friend Tash) take a trip up to Noosa for the lauching of Kelsey's dad's new ...

... well off the beaten track on our way to the Finch Hatton Gorge, and it may not have been such a good idea for Tracy to stand by the river bank, (looking juicy) while snapping a picture of us driving through the ford. I guess it's the price you have to be willing to pay for a blog picture; · Finally seeing the elusive platypus. We had previously made 3 or 4 unsuccessful trips to rivers where platypuses supposedly resided, and I was ready to declare them ...

... On a side note, isn't it fun the way they have to qualify these things until they find something that they're the best at? We're not the tallest building in the world, but we're the tallest in the southern hemisphere. I thought that was the Sky Tower in Auckland, which is 6m taller than Q1, but in fact, that was the tallest free-standing structure in the southern hemisphere. There's also a transmitter somewhere in Oz that ...

... get down some of the coast and are currently in 'Surfers Paradise' south of Brisbane. So not in Papua New Guinea like i'd secretly hoped their rogue flight would end up. It was always the plan for this to happen and I went to stay with my cousin Gordon who lives in Cairns. Gordon was working, but told me a few things to do during the day until he could come out to play. I went on an old style train up to a town called Kuranda. Kuranda itself is about as ...