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It has been a struggle to find wifi but we have had luck hanging out at Hungry Jack locations! I am writing these blogs as a catch up from our final days here in Oz. we left Airlie Beach last Monday to begin two long driving days. A comment on the Aussie highways ..... They are very well signed and unless we were in the cities we hardly ever got lost! We did managed to hit every work crew on the Bruce Highway- I guess they do road work in winter like we do in summer. It made our five hour travel days easily six hours long and somewhat frustrating! The amount of road kill was amazing and I did worry at times how a kangaroo coulsD take out our little rental car so quickly. There ... read more

Grandpa here is the password Austrailia or austrailia2012 The letters should not because sensitive We are iairlines beach until the 23rd it is a spectacular location and so so tropical it is hard for us to believe that it is winter here! The weather is quite perfect but it does get chilly quickly when the sun goes down at 6 pm each night. Quite amazing actually as it disappears in about two minutes! We spent the day on Camira yesterday - an 80 ft catamaran snorkeling and spending time at the famous whitehaven beach on Whitsunday island. The sand is pure white silicA that cleans jewel really well and feels like baby powder. It is a protected park so you can't bar.ing sand back so you will just have to trust us with how amazing it ... read more

We actually left Melbourne on Thursday and worked our way to the mountains to do some skiing at Mt Buller, however the Aussies were warning us there wasn't much of a winter but we really wanted to ski! Then we heard about having to rent chains for the tires, rent our gear in town before the trek to the mountain.... We also had to contend with Mother Nature and her rain and in the end we didn't make it to the mountain :( This change of plans afforded us a chance to head to Keaseville - home of an Australian sanctuary and we were inches away from koalas who were quite active and so, so interesting, watched a Joey leave its mother's pouch and hop around and hop back in, came face to face with an ... read more

WEll we made it! None too soon either! We have made it to our hotel tired and hungry and we will have to make a plan how how to best manage the day tofeet ourselves on track! It is a decent temperature but it is chilly after leaving theheat wave. Treasury Gardens are beautiful and we'll head out soon and start taking pictures to post. Hopefully, we will see our first kangaroo soon". TSCE... read more

Hard to imagine, as we melted going from the front door to the car,that we wilbe in temperatures 35 degrees cooler! Only have to survive a wee plane ride or two! Watches have already been set to Melbourne time- it's 6:45 Thursday morning! I'm curious to see if Steve's sleep prep plan pays off!... read more