Sydney

We spent our last few weeks in chilly Sydney and after some retail therapy for some warm clothes we visited the iconic sites of the beautiful Opera House and Harbour Bridge and soaked up city life including checking out Billy Elliot at the theatre.

We also visited the stunning northern beaches.

We also got stuck into country life in the spectacular Blue Mountains.

Next stop snowy New Zealand - will have to invest in some thermals!!!

Gold Coast

Sorry it's been so long everyone but after saying goodbye to Buzzer we hopped over to Bali and the internet isn't great there!!! But here is wonderful Surfers Paradise.

Here is Mike & Pat with their surfboards!!

Ahhhh nothing better then watching the sunset and having a BBQ

Here is my husband & I on a night out with Pat & Michelle in Byron Bay - what an awesome place.

Cairns

After our mini cruise here next stop was Cairns & here I am on the esplanade.

There is one thing to look out for in Cairns 'CROCS' On all the beaches and rivers there are warnings 'Beware Croc territory' - very sureal & scary!!

Here is a view of Cape Tribulation. You can see its not picture perfect the ocean was dirty brown colour, infact this is commen as the area is built on mud planes and any winds or currents stirs it all up!!

You also have these warnings about Cassowaries, basically ugly massive birds that are as tall as a human and weigh 6oK have sharp claws and will attack you!!!

Mike driving through the amazing Daintree Rain Forest.....

and having a walk through the mangroves!!!!!Among the rainforest their are beautiful beaches

We are now making are way back down to end our journey in Sydney & to say an emotional goodbye to Buzzer!!!!

Whitsunday Magic!!! - Wow

We decided to book a 3 day sailing trip on board the beautiful tall ship the Whitsunday Magic. It was one the best weekends we have ever had, we had amazing food cooked by a real chef, slightly different to what we can russel up in the camper!!!! but also fantastic company. We met loads of great people of all ages from a vegetarian butcher, to 3 old lady's properly backpacking - your never too old. There were South Africans, Kiwis, Ozzy's, Irish, Canadian and of course us Poms. We have kept in touch with some of them and are hoping to catch up again on our travels.

Relaxing on deck!!

Whitehaven Beach -Wow!!

The attractive Stinger suits or as we say Stinker suits!!

The picture postcard lookouts.

The evenings were filled by awesome food, alcohol & the best sunsets ever!!

Check us out sailing the ship!!!

Sorry we have bored you with the photos we could have put so many more anybody coming to Oz you MUST sail the Whitsundays, you beauty's!!!

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!!!!