Blogs from Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Well Bloggers, 3 weeks today is when we left dear old blightly, and what an adventure so far. What a hell of a day, we finally made our camping purchase today, so read on! The weather men said it would be cloudy with rain today, they were right, not much rain though but really hot all the same (Still shorts and T shirts though). I was keen to be up and out today fairly early today as I new my sister Jane had some news on my mum, that she was excited to tell me. Let me tell you a bit about my mum, she is an amazing lady, she always see the good in everyone. What has always made me proud is that my friends always liked my mum and dad for who they were, ... read more

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 mailed each other and asked when it would be convenient to do an open video call, so we agreed we would do it at 10.00pm UK time, that would be at the end of Bob’s ... read more

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 is more than enough, then drove over to the camping store we like, only some minor purchases today some plastic plates, plastic beakers and polycarbonate knives forks and spoons, stuff that we will need on ... read more

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 future dream/nightmare soon. The night was really warm, but we retired just after 10.30 shattered, but triumphant in our small achievements and happy that we spoke to Shirley and John. Caroline is still sleeping, no ... read more

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 the direction of Nambour, about 16 K’s from where we are staying. Pulling in to Gary Crick Nissan, its quite an impressive set up, and the sun is scorching hot, the AC is on full ... read more