Marina Quays International Hope Island

... and his drug smuggling capers in Afghanistan in the 70s, a great character and made for an enjoyable night. Once we had finished at the pub it was off to bed in the car park, which doesn't sound that nice but the view in the morning was great. We were parked feet from the river bank with mist coming off the river and the early morning dew on the grass, It was lovely. We arose with a slightly sore head from the drinks last night had a bowl of Special K and hit the road again.

... room and up and away we went to the room.

cheers all for now will add more as i go
Stewart and Nancy.

Cedric's report

hey all as us Canucks say it, how are you all well i hope OK this is the first real trip i have taken with Nancy and the idiot so hopefully i will survive it no problems but i was warned by Trevor to be prepared for some tight squeezes in bags at times.

OK we were up at some ungodly hr even decent squirrels never ...

... big boys................................a couple of large sailing vessels too big to be in any closer and we had a long length of chain on our anchor to be able drop in slightly deeper water. Ha, ha..........leave the rat-bags to the pack! Monday morning we had had enough........up anchor again, this time leaving Peel Island behind to try and catch a good breeze to sail closer towards Manly Harbour. Not that MrJ and I were due in at Manly till Tuesday..............we both ...

... There are a lot of Canadians on the East Coast of Australia. Almost as many as there are English (that's a ****-load). In New Zealand I would run into the odd Canadian, but here they are everywhere. Like a disease. Most of them are young and wanting to "get on the ****". I haven't heard back from one of the companies in Newcastle, and the other has informed me that they will let me know in a couple weeks if I've "made the next round". I don't want to make the next round in a ...

... qld_2008_058.jpg] We walked in through Myer and then had to go up 4 levels to reach the cinema. We went to the counter to buy our tickets and recieve our 3D glasses. As we had arrived so early, we decided to head down to the food court to buy some lunch. Once everyone had finished eating, we had a little look in a few of the shops before we headed back up to the cinema. We brought a few movie munchies and then headed into our seats. Very much to our suprise ...

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... s roommate. They are all very cool. We hung out for a while at her house then headed to the mall to get groceries and we also went to the bank. We came back home and unpacked, watched TV and had lunch. Around 4ish we went to their friend's house who was having a pool party/BBQ in the Valley. So we had supper there, hung out, put our feet in the hot tub and chatted with everyone. We had to take the bus to her ...

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... in a massive storm walking back from the beach that day too, but we dried off and got down to the business of throwing Jon his party. Balloons were blown up, cake was decorated (complete with a tiny surfboard and picture of Jon in surf-pose above it), snacks were prepared (delicious sushi courtesy of Matt of and Meg) and finally the Dahu was unleashed. Dahu's potent mix of rum and fizzy wine, juice and fruit can make you do funny things. Jon's face the following day can attest to ...