Palms Oasis Motel Taree

... 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!  

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 ...

... make a couple of calls. We managed to get a booking, took some directions and after a few wrong turns arrived an hour later. The place is a small homestead on the outskirts of town. The lady who owns the B&B is nuttier than packet of peanuts (We do seem to find them!) although she was an interesting and charismatic person who has done a fair bit of travelling the world. She did also have some very strong views on euthanasia - Each to ...

... in serving alcohol Lol - they're quite fussy about people having it over here - everyone who works with alcohol should have one) in the new year so that if we cant find anything this side of christmas, we'll be able to look for more after. Especially if this woman's right about no jobs until after NewYear. 17th December Today we tried our jobhunting luck in Bondi Junction - it's only 5 mins up the road by bus so isn't far away at all. We had been looking ...

... hard work, especially as Ed kept steering us into trees and bushes! I ended up with half a tree in my lap! We both ended up very wet too after a bit of a water fight with the oars! In the hostel tonight it was punch night which is $7 for as much punch as you can drink and some drinking games. It was a fun night but the punch wasn't all that great. Before we left Coffs Harbour to go to Newcastle we went for a walk ...

The Banana town, Coffs Harbour. Famed for what else but bananas. As a bit of a monkey myself it was nice to know we were in the middle of Banana country and we'd be able to eat frech lumps of them every morning or all day if we so pleased. The main street is lined with lots of stores and cafes but the heat was too much so we wandered around the air condidtioned malls instead during the middle of the day. Campsite was sweet with a great pool and of course the ...

... 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.

Written by Suzanne The first night in the camper was a restless one for me. I ended up in Ryans ½ bed as I couldn't be bothered moving him after he fell asleep in our bed. (I won't be doing that again in a hurry). Also the "weeing" sound on the roof all night and the Pacific Highway only 200 meters away I certainly ...

Hot and bothered, especially when a "lady" park ranger with no life wakes us at 4:15 saying "you can't sleep here, go move shift"....then we were attacked by sandflies so couldn't get back to sleep....and so we watched the sun rise, and caught our disaster-mobile 4WD to Fraser Island. But then things picked up...we reached Lake Makenzie!

... didn't take the "Magic Surf Bus" as we named the tiny bus we took on the way up here. Instead we had a nice coach bus with a TV and better air conditioning. There were about 45 of us heading back to Sydney, so we really wouldn't have fit on the other bus. About halfway to Sydney we hit DEAD traffic...which lasted for over TWO hours! If you have seen the news lately there are a ton of brush fires along the coast, which is what caused our delay. Once we got off ...