This morning we had an appointment to Skype a good friend of mine Bob Yule, at 08.00 at Starbucks. It was weird, we had parked in the car park last night, looking for a free network to piggyback, sometimes you are lucky most times not, this night we had a short window of free WiFi. Mum and Dad tried to call but it was unsuccessful so we chatted via skype instead. We saw that Bob was on line so Skyped him a message as he was at work, and does not have a web cam in his office. (Who Does) we [View Full Entry]

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We woke at 6.10 this morning and unzipped the Swag, the sun burst in bright and getting high in the sky and very warm, jumping straight out we wanted to get it packed away as we were aware there was no camping in the state forest, “though I felt this was not quite camping” The swag was completely rolled away in about 10 minutes, and we got on with stoking up the Whisperlite, our camping stove, as we both wanted a cup of tea. I was really proud of Caroline, she was so apprehensive about sleeping out in the Swag, especially [View Full Entry]

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Today was a day we were looking forward to; we had to take the Hertz car back to Brisbane today, as we were picking up the Nissan Patrol late afternoon from Gary Crick Nissan in Nambour. Nambour is where the Australian Prime minister Kevin Rudd comes from. The first job we had to do was clean the skip out, ah, I mean the Hertz Hire Car affectionately known as “The Pea”, it took us no time to clean it out and stash our gear, and soon after breccy, we left for Brisbane at around 08.50. En Route we had to fill [View Full Entry]

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I’m up early today 05.45, Caroline has to be up early today as we have to get to Starbucks by 08.00, so she can Skype the girls, as they are having their “Wild” Girls night and it will be the first one Caroline is to miss whilst on our adventure. (It is also the first one that I have missed in nearly 10 years!). It gives me time to update the blog for yesterday, and have my peaceful thought time. I take her a cup of tea, and she is awake, we leave the house at 07.15 and head down to [View Full Entry]

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The day started nice and lazy, we both slept really well, the night was really warm and our “Indian Friend”, The Punkawalla, has put in for some overtime. We had our breakfast out on the patio, and I typed up yesterday’s blog (Day15, 22-11-2008), which was three pages and a dozen pictures, as yesterday was so busy. Around 11.30 we went and sat round the pool to catch some rays, and have a swim, the day was hot, hot, hot, I cooked a rasher of bacon on Caroline’s belly. We had only an hour and a bit, in the sun which [View Full Entry]

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We wake up in our new surroundings, Caroline proclaimed that it took her a while to drift off to sleep, where I must have gone as my soon as my head hit the pillow, she said that I was “herding the pigs in”. (Its great being a bloke) I wake, and jump out of bed, gagging for a cup of tea. I power the notebook up, I need to review the blog page for yesterday, which Caroline laid down the outline for. To make the blog as factual as we can we like to write it up either, the same day [View Full Entry]

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What a mad day, we rose as usual and had our breakfast, and decided to swim for a while then lie in the sun for 1/ 2 an hour. We needed to go in to ANZ bank to do our banking, we are chatting to the Bank Manager and we happen upon the conversation of our unwanted visitor, she, Belinda lives out in the sticks, by the zoo and said you haven’t had a spider in you’re house until you’ve had a “Huntsman”, goody I can’t wait for that!!! We decided to drive out looking for some more car dealers, in [View Full Entry]

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Up at 06.20 (20.20) British time, the night before, you have got to do the sleep bit to catch us up but never will, its like dancing in time, you go to bed we get up and when we go to bed you still have the rest of your day ahead of you. I slept really well, but was a little unsettled by our visitor last night. The reason I don’t watch horror movies is that I dream so vividly, so I was surprised that the spider wasn’t in my dream, but I probably will have to face him in some [View Full Entry]

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Gosh today has been a big day for me and Andy, we finally get mobile and leave Brisbane to head North to Alexandra Headland. After breakfast we hopped onto the City “Kitty” Cat to Riverside just a few stops down the Brisbane River, to the post office. It was raining, not very heavily, but still, it was raining, we had borrowed an umbrella from the Rydges Hotel and needed to get in to town, to collect the hire car from Hertz. Caroline loves the “City Cat” a sleek powerful ferry that works on the river. You just hop on pay, to [View Full Entry]

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Waking up this morning to the newspapers that were full of the devastation from last night’s storms across the Gold Coast. A mini tornado swept the Gold Coast and the outskirts of Brisbane. We watched the storm safely ensconced in hour hotel room without realising the devastation that it was leaving in its wake. Indeed our hotel suffered only with a power cut, yet houses in the region have lost their roofs, trees are down and sadly one man died after being swept away by waters in a storm drain. One woman on the news this morning was showing the size [View Full Entry]

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