Brisbane
Seemed like a really nice city. We just arrived when the doctor was arrested for the terrorist thing in Glasgow so that was all over the news! We went to the Castlemaine XXXX Brewery, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and Southbank. It was State of Origin weekend, kind of like Six Nations games in Edinburgh so it was very busy. We went to the cinema to see Oceans 13 - was quite good.
Surfers Paradise
Much bigger place than I imagined. It's on the Gold Coast, and the beach stretches all the way down the city. We went up the Q1 Residential Tower (20th Tallest Building in the World!), and relaxed at the beach.
Byron Bay
This is another surfers area - it's the first main stop in New South Wales. We hired Bikes and went a tour around, then today we went a walk upto Cape Byron Lighthouse - the most easterly point in Australia. Its normally a great spot to see Whales and Dolphins but today its been very windy so didn't spot any, lots of surfers out about though!
Getting the overnight bus to Sydney tonight, that's going to be a 14 hour trip. Staying there until Sunday when we head off to New Zealand. We've hired a camper for 3 weeks, its going to be winter there so we're preparing ourselves for the cold weather.
The last six months in Australia seem to have gone by incredibly fast!
Koala with Baby from Lone Pine Koala Park
Me in Surfers Paradise with the Q1 Tower in the background
3 comments:
Lovely picture of the koala, not bad of you and tower either! Busy on house maintenance here! Enjoy Sydney.
Mum.
I like Julies picture of your parcel - that will be an interesting one for the post to deliver!
Sydney looks pretty spectacular.
Looking forward to reading your blog from NZ.
Went to the Gold coast the beach was fantastic. Would love to go back again.... any spare £'s anyone?
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