It's a holiday weekend in Australia to celebrate the Queen's birthday (should we not get a holiday in the UK for this reason??) so we took off on our first Australian 'road trip'. We drove from Canberra out towards the edge of the Snowy Mountains (which are not yet snowy), through Cooma and then down towards the far south coast of NSW. We stayed a night at a nice little motel in Eden, and then drove all the way up the coast to Jervis Bay where we stopped for a few days. We went whale watching (and saw some humpback whales and dolphins), went walking in Boogeree National park (beautiful sea views, crashing waves, pouring with rain), and visited some really beautiful beaches (although it was not exactly beach weather!). We also had dinner in a
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