Bye Bye Pricey Australia,Hello Dirt Cheap Asia

hey guys,

just about to leave Oz tomorrow!Doing this and trying to pack away all the rubbish we have accumaleted since we have been here!just cant find a spot for my digeredoo!Had loads of fun in Oz but looking forward to moving on.
The East coast was cool but was just full of annoying 18 year old kids who were just up for getting hammered.We had crap weather all the way up to noosa but the sun came out and we were able to get on the beach.
Whitsundays was class apart from the skipper of our ship who was an absolute ******!Just really rude but snorkelling was amazing and the isalnds are cool.The islands off queensland were probably the best bit of the east coast.A bit like barbados in ways!
Not doing much writing as hard to condense two months into words so we thought we would do lots of pictures(Its a bit easier for you lot aswell)
West coast was a lot different a lot more barren up to the north and what you would expect oz to look like and the south is really green and really enjoyed margaret river were me and zoe finally had a chance to go surfing.Really enjoyed it and will have to go when we get back.I put some videos on the blog so hopefully they wil work,and i did improve on the old surfing.I did a bungy jump in cairns aswell which was well worth it and harder to do than sky diving.We both did our introductory scuba diving, such a wierd experience. I(Rich) was a bit freaked out to start with and wouldnt let go of the guy but once i relaxed and got into it i really enjoyed myself!

So here is a quick summary of all the places we visited in the last two months...and over 8542m (thats 5302 miles for you guys!). We did 4011 on East coast in a month and bombed it on west coast doing 4531 in 14 days!

East Coast:

Hired campervan in Sydney and drove up to Blue Mountains
Byron Bay
Noosa
Brisbane
Hervey Bay
Airlie Beach
Whitsunday Islands
Magnetic Island
Dunk Island
Cairns
Port Douglas / Barrier Reef
Cape Tribulation
Back down to Cairns for flight over to West Coast

West Coast:

Hired car in Perth and drove up to Cervantes
Kalbarri
Denham/Monkey Mia
Coral Bay
(all north of Perth)
Albany
Denmark
Nannup
Margaret River
(all south of perth)
Perth

Some parts are stunningly beautiful. Some parts are stunningly boring. Mostly bloody great. We will mainly miss the drive-thru off licences, and jack daniels and coke in a can. Classy!

Check out the videos hopefully they will work.

Worst part of whole trip was the terrible news about Steve Irwin. We were at Australia Zoo (home of the Croc Hunter) the day before he died, and it was such a terrible tragedy. Australia was in mourning for a long while. This blog is dedicated to his memory.


Take care all,

Zoë & Rich

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