Last few weeks in Oz

Here are a few highlights from the last few weeks. We've done a lot of driving, starting in Sydney along the south coast through Melbourne and Adalaide, then back to Sydney via Broken Hill in the middle of nowhere. Finally over the last couple of weeks we've driven along the Gold and Sunshine coasts up to Bundaberg to sample some rum and back down to Brisbane for our flight to Japan.

The plan for the next couple of months is 3 weeks in Japan, a ferry to South Korea, a flight to Vietnam and then to work our way overland through Laos, Cambodia and Thailand to Kuala Lumpur.


The lovely Dorrigo National park on the Waterfall Way, inland from Coffs Harbour on the east coast.


The boat trip to Lady Mugrove Island on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. The snorkeling etc was amazing the really rough trip to get there with lots of people being sick on the boat was not! This must have been early on as Clarkie's looking fairly happy, 9 chuppa chup lollies later (an attempt to quell the 'motion of the ocean') we arrived at an island paradise! We spent the day on an island walk, snorkeling with turtles and brilliantly coloured tropical fish, and on a submarine tour to see more of the coral.



Who ate all the pies? We did! Although I think we prefer Margaret Nightingale's meat and potato pies!



'Stonking waves at Noosa', apparently!