Australia It is a lie - Australia is not a hot , dry dust bowl edged with sun baked golden beaches adorned by bronzed, muscle bound lifeguards - well not what we saw anyway. The beaches were akin to Bognor in the rain (Bridlington for our Northern readers!!) but with bigger waves, the Hinterland was green, lush and in flood from the constant rains that fell non-stop from Boxing Day until we left NSW in early January. Take a look at the photographic evidence for this !!!! That said we had great trip to Australia mostly visiting friends at Mullwillumbah in NSW, Noosa in Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne. Mullwillumbah is about 30 miles inland from Byron Bay about half way up the West Coast of Australia. We spent an entertaining three weeks there with Tony and
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