Queensland

We have decided to bypass Sydney and head straight for the 'Sunshine' state of Queensland as we will be spending a few weeks in Sydney before we leave as we have to say goodbye to 'Buzzer' - its going to be emotional!!!! However we did stay in Port Stephens just north of Sydney and has the most awesome sunsets and sand dunes.

Heading for the sunshine coast we believed it would be beach, beach, beach but for the first time in our trip( I know not bad eh!) we had a week of rain. So here is Mike is Brisbane but we are going to stop by on the way back down the coast and have another look around.

So rain, rain, rain we had a day tip to Lone Pine Sanctuary - amazing. We so loooooooove Kolas and Roos take a look!

Here is a sunset at Noosa, stunning place.....

....here is a night out and look at the muscles on this bouncer ( you don't see him on the barbie)almost as big as my heeead, just had to get a pic, nice sweat patch!!!!

Melbourne Part 2 ...

Well we miss everybody so much and love reading all the comments but Mike does feel better as he found a replacement Cowhead!!!!

Here we are in a place called Stawell on a weekend away.

Can you guess what game we introduced to the Ozzy's??..

.....Ahha IBBILE DIBBLE is in OZ and they love it!!

Here is Mikey playing with the boys!!

We had such a fab time in Melbourne but sorry Toy we didn't find it to be a Kylie mecca!!! We are looking to head back here before we leave to see the Hobbit again and check out Ramsey Street, next stop Brisbane

Melbourne Part 1

We arrived in Melbourne and Lee & Ange you will be pleased to learn we stayed in St Kilda. In Thailand we made friends with a Hobbit (James) and his lovely girlfriend Lara and he kindly offered to put us up for a couple of weeks in his home town. Along with us POMS at the Dicko hostel.com were three beautiful Swedes. As you can imagine Mike found it really hard going having to look at such beauty's!! We had such an awesome time mostly thanks to our mini tour guide Dicko. As you can see Mike had is drinking partner back and it was all steam ahead with the Magners!!

Mr Hobbit Head is a teacher and as it was Easter he invited us to help make bunny ears with his class. We then had a party and you guessed it the dress code was bunny ears!! Here is me & the lovely Lara and the beautiful Swedes it was so nice to have girls to talk to instead of my wonderful husband , it has been 5 months nearly!!

Here we are on another night out!

Kingy & me being silly.

West to East

Our last destination on the West Coast was Esperance, the place has the most amazing beaches, I know we have said this about lots of places but seriously this place is awesome just take a look and there is nobody on the beach!!

We left and made the long three day journey across the Nullarbor Plain to Adelaide. The roads go on forever and ever and ever. Travelling from Perth to Adelaide is like driving from London to Moscow!! Check out the sign beware of Camels, Emus and Kangaroos!!

It was one hell of a drive but a great road trip and I drove the longest stretch of straight road in Australia, 99 miles! We arrived in Adelaide and to be honest there isn't much there so we didn't take any photos. It is a nice place but not much to see or do therefore we continued our road trip to The Great Ocean Road.

Here are the 12 Apostles, unfortunately we had crap weather but it was really cool to see.

The drive was spectacular and we could of swapped our Buzzer for a convertible! We stopped in some small towns along the way which reminded us of St Ives ahhhh home. Our next stop is Melbourne and we are staying with some friends so Buzzer can have a well earned rest for a couple of weeks.

Margaret River

Fantastic beaches, wineries, a cheese and chocolate factory all make up Margaret River. From only seeing brown, brown and more brown landscape our surroundings have been turned into lush green forests and stunning wineries like this one.


We couldn't be in Oz much longer without taking part in a wine tour. Our tour was called ' Wine for Dudes' and you must agree we are so dudes now!! Check us out making our own red wine!

The day basically included visiting wineries and sampling lots of wine with a a lush picnic in between. What more could you want?

We both drank loads and the best day out that as you can imagine continued way into the evening and renditions of the running man!!

Dolphins & Friends

Our next visit was to Monkey Mia to see the wild dolphins that turn up like clockwork every day.

This place is so surreal you have to pinch yourself to make sure your not dreaming. Firstly loads of dolphins come ashore each morning to get fed and you see them maybe a metre away so that in its self is awesome. Then throughout the day you are enjoying the sunshine and decide go for a dip to cool down. Next thing you know a few wild flippers decide to join you and have a swim. It’s completely unreal.

I think he may be looking at me?

Here our neighbours, funny bunch they are!

The kinglemons at sunset.

When we left the dolphins we then met up with some other beautiful people – The Graham Family!!

It was excellent meeting up with you guys in Oz; I still can’t believe it Lin. You and me together in Australia!! We had a fab couple of days it was so cool seeing you and meeting your friends. A traditional Oz BBQ, we could so get used to that. Thanks for the great company, missing you guys already. We will see you in 9 months time xxxx

Wow!!! Coral Bay

We hit the road at 9am this was our view.

2 hours later, umm looks the same!!!

After 6 hours we crossed this.

After 7 hours of the same, long, boring, straight road, seeing only a handful of cars we final arrived at Coral Bay, Wow!!

This place is absolutely stunning, the most beautiful place we have been so far. Check out the water! There is only one thing to do here and that is hit the beach!

This place is part of the Ningaloo Reef and the snorkelling is out of this world. You only have to take a few steps into the ocean to see an abundant of marine life. You can walk just around the bay to a nursery of white tip sharks, amazing. We had been toying with the idea to get our PADI license but as if anybody knows me I swim like Cowhead, which is badly! So I was a little apprehensive so we decided to book a discover scuba diving course to test the water.

It was a fabulous day we dived to 8.5 meters and I didn’t drown, I was so pleased. We got up close and personal with lots of beautiful fish and even some reef sharks, scary or what! However look at this. Is Mike trying out for a part in Star Trek, Ha! Ha!