Palms Oasis Motel Taree

... a lot longer to master the moves and had to resort to kneeling on my board which was still lots of fun! We got some amazing photo's and Ian looks like a pro surfer in most of them! We have definitely caught the surfing bug! Luckily there are plenty of places to surf all the way up the East Coast so we should be able to get lots of practice before we leave Oz! Kowabunga Duuuuudes! x x x

... about 100 kms short of Sydney the terrain changed from brown to green - lush green velvet.  It was quite incredible.  Shows what a difference a bit of rain will do! Once at Taree it was lovely to relax and take a lovely hot shower, share a bottle or two and watch one of the many dvds we have brought with us! Technical stuff - 540 kms travelled at about 12.1 litres per 100 kilometres as we were on freeways and highways!  

... out of there - about 2 hours ahead of the road closing with all the floods. Good timing!!! Also, the caravan park had rabbits running around loose. They were so cute, especially the babies.

Worldclass diving at Fish Rock Tuesday 2009-03-24 to Friday 2009-03-27 For Swedish please see below. Fish Rock is located off the coast of Smokey Cape and it is best known for its Grey Nurse Shark habitat. It is nature at its absolute best.  We first learned about this dive site during a liveabord to Komodo last summer when two Australian divers, Peter and Robin, made us a list of the top 10 dive sites in Australia. We hooked up with Peter and his nephew Cal for this diving ...

... country to Brisbane, we decided to break up the trip by stopping in a cute little town called Coffs Harbour. Oddly, the train was packed. After we kicked a teenage girl out of our seats we sat down across from a mother and her screaming child. Paul and I looked at each other, put on our Ipods and gritted our teeth for our 6 hour train ride. Turns out the child was 5, and he spent the entire train ride screaming, crying ...

... around, and so I am ****** I dont have the camera and keep swimming around after a few more looks at the turtle. Not long after, I am swimming behind the instructor as she is swimming looking at us and all of a sudden the instructors indicates something above my head, but I couldnt see anything, so she grabs me and spins me around when then I see this huge sea turtle which was about a foot off my back. The turtle was bigger htan ...

... is supposedly the second longest drop of waterfalls in the southern hemisphere. We walked all the way to the bottom and got drenched by the mist. Another day I took James' motorbike out and nearly killed myself. Lynn washed all our clothes and I left my passport in the pocket so now it looks like its 85 years old, but its still functional. Overall I had a good time there.

... 3 tage pro woche kommen ross' 2 kinder zu besuch (7 und 9 jahre). ein schlafzimmer ist extra fuer couchsurfer wie mich. da aber heute noch 2 andere besucher kommen wurde ich 'ausquartiert' und habe mein eigenes reich im buero neben den garagen. bis in die stadt ist es nicht weit, bis zum strand schon etwas weiter, aber ross hat mir sein fahrrad geliehen und so werde ich jetzt mal auf erkundungstour gehen. ok, es gibt keine radwege, wie fast ...

... went into Sydney to collect a table from the Traveller's autobarn head office. Rain started to stop as we entered the city and due to my developing map reading skills we found the garage and ditched the van for 1/2 hour to get some lunch. We found a wee Chinese Chippy around the corner and had a lovely lunch and started to feel good again. The cold and rain and lack of sleep for 2 nights had started to wear us down. We got Morrison ...

... luggage over for him - we were worried he wasn't going to let us on the bus). Strange few minutes for us on a rather uneventful day otherwise. Once on the bus, we missed the movie, so we popped the last of our gravol and tried to sleep. There were more people on this bus and it had less leg room so we couldn't sprawl out and Jess almost strangled TJ because he was taking up both of their seats and was really restless. TJ couldn't get comfortable. But Jess ...