Well our travel plans went completely off track over the last few weeks due to fairly severe tropical storm and cyclone warnings in the northern regions of the east coast...I guess that's the rainy season for you! When the flooding first hit we'd travelled as far north as a town called Rockhampton (the meat capital of the east coast apparently) where we spent a couple of days at a farm stay called Myella....learnt to ride a motorbike (although never got out of 4th gear...too scarey!), rode horses bare back (wish they had gears!), milked a cow, hand fed orphan wallabies (SO cute), cracked whips, learnt to lassoo (how do you spell that?!?!), made breakfast over camp fires and basically got down and dirty with the cowboys!!! All great fun!! We then got stuck in Rockhampton for
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