Manly Surfside Apartments

... hand throughout the day introducing animals to the public and explaining things about them. Then, of course there are the crocodiles, which I must say, spend almost all their lives sitting around doing nothing, except waiting for their next meal to go by. They are very impressive beats though. The funniest thing we saw at Australia Zoo was the keepers mowing the grass in the crocodile pens. They had two guys running around cutting the grass and another stood near the pool part ...

... out later that there's another Doyle's at Circular Quay, which is obviously the main one! On Friday we walked around the Botanic Gardens and then went to see a film at the I Max (the worlds biggest screen) and afetrwards saw Darling Harbour's 21st birthday celebrations. There was a big fireworks display involving men on jet skis with fireworks shooting out of the back - it was a fantastic last night in Sydney.

... of finding and getting them. We didn't want to end up like some others in the hostel who were pretty much living week by week just able to afford the next week's rent. So we've decided to go to new Zealand early, tomorrow in fact. And we've also cut down on America a lot as we don't really have the money for it. I'm kinda sad to be leaving Australia so early, I really like it here and it's been a lot of fun ...

... As for the factory job, backbreaking is not the word. Basically, two of you stand at a conveyor belt struggling to keep up with a machine that spits out 20 boxes of Special K per second whilst checking the boxes for damage and trying to ram them neatly into a bigger box. If one of you dropped a box or stopped to scratch your **** you up to your neck in cereal boxes and some angry little Vietnamese called Khan would be screaming at you. I nicknamed him ...

... in the world - White Haven Beach and Hill Inlet... Then back in Hong Kong to finish up all my planning and packing... worked just as hard as if I were working in IBD back in the old days!!! Stayed up late to talk to travel agents in the US etc... Anyways - off to my big trip!!!!

... all exhausted and ready for bed. One of the other events taking place in the month of February is Katie's birthday. Believe it or not, this goes on for longer than the Chinese New Year but I'll come to that in a little while. Before we celebrated yet another birthday (Think about it, 16 people living together - 12 months in a year - it's always someone's birthday!), we had to cure Katie of her mystery illness. Sometime late in January or early February, Katie started ...

... real estate, past World War 2 gun emplacements, hidden beaches and subtropical rainforest. There were a couple of pristine beaches that we stopped at to admire the views and take some photo's, shame we forgot the picnic though because we were starving and at this point and the water supplies were frighteningly low. We made it to the Spit Bridge after 4 hours of hard slog! We decided to catch the bus home! Enough was enough. It really was beautiful though and ...

... sink where Simon got her again and then she got onto the floor scurrying about. The Raid slowed her sown a bit but she was still fast. They played a bit of a cat and mouse game where she hid on the inside of the shower door and the outside when he opened it. She made a dash to go out the bathroom door into the main room where I'm sitting on my bed half absorbed into the wall. Eventually, the Raid works and Simon puts her out of her misery with a folded newspaper ...

I caught the MacArthur to Syndey train early this morning. It goes via the international and domestic airports which is useful. This is a great way of catching up on your journal (if you keep one) and to listen to your favourite music.<br><br>The journey went really quickly considering it's about an hour and half's ride. With never seeing any of the places on the way I found it very interesting going through all the small towns on ...