Scooters and Australia Zoo

Well with 4 litres of duty free Bundy rum we seem to have settled into holiday mode and started to relax apart from dodging jumping ghekos and those pesky ants which seem to have taken a shine to Daisy's English fair skin unlike Holly who seems to be soaking up the sun and turning herself brown with ease. We have visited the beach several times and got the girls body boarding in the small surf. There isn't too much swell though so paddle surfing will have to wait till the wind changes and brings in the surf.

Father Christmas seems to have come early already and dropped a couple of pink scooters off for the girls before going onto Hastings Street to turn on the Christmas Lights. The girls are getting used to the scooters along the river at Noosaville and will provide them with some transport when we start our travels.

We have also picked up some fishing tackle to do some fishing on the river in due course and will keep you posted with any notable catches!

Tristan Rankine, Jo's brother, celebrated his 40th over the weekend and a great party it was too with bouncy castle for the kids and cold beers for the Mums and Dads! Plenty of kangaroos in the garden at party too!

Finally a trip to Australia Zoo meeting the local wildlife and visting the famous Crocoseum to watch the wildlife show. We all got up close  with the kanagaroos and Koalas, Holly deciding she wants to bring some home.

We've arrived!

Well we have arrived! Departed Manchester on the new A380 to Dubai touching down for 2 hours before we headed to Brisbane, via Singapore, on a brand new 777 which the girls manged to break in nicely! Arrived in Brisbane about 26hours after departing Manchester and to our suprise the journey was pretty painless! However the jetlag has since come to haunt us and we haven't manged to get much sleep since. However the sun in shining and the girls seem to be enjoying the pool and the beach so hopefully we will get back to normal sleeping patterns soon! All in all painless trip over and we intend to start planing and getting organised next week

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Well shortly we depart for Australia for what hopefully will be a trip of a lifetime. We aim to drive round Australia in a 4WD and caravan! We thought we might struggle to send you all a postcard so hopefully this site will keep you informed of what and where we are up to!

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First stop Noosa on Queenslands Sunshine Coast for 6 weeks for some R&R, paddle surfing, Christmas.....and maybe a bit of test cricket and The Wiggles!!

Noosa Main Beach