These are just some of the ooodles of pictures I've taken whilst travelling down the east coast of Australia. Starting off on December 11th, I joined a Contiki tour down the east coast which took me to Cairns, up to Cape Tribulation and Port Douglas, back to Cairns then onto Airlie Beach, Whitsundays for 2 days of sailing, Rockhampton (on the Tropic Of Capricorn so this is where we finally left the humidity), Noosa, Byron Bay, Fraser Island, Surfers Paradise (one of my faves although extremely tacky!!), Port Stephens / Nelson's Bay and then onwards to Sydney where we finished the tour on Boxing Day. Very strange but on the main highway, there is a signpost for a turnoff - for Newcastle and Wallsend!! (And Toronto but irrelevant!) anyways!.... The tour was quite intense, a day
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