Time is whizzing by...

Ok, so our Australia trip is coming close to an end, we leave from Sydney in just over 2 weeks which seems crazy! We've seen so much and still have lots to do, probably have to save some of the sights on our list for our next trip here.

I haven't been very good at all with updating my blog and can't even remember everything we've done since leaving Brisbane but I can say that we are now in Townsville, way up in Queensland and 300km south of Cairns! Phew!

So the weather here is great, perfect for us British people, about 26 degrees and really sunny, can you believe it's actually winter here, life could be worse!

Anyway, after Brisbane we've done a few very cool things. We went to Fraser Island which is the worlds largest sand island and 4 wheel drive only, it was fantastic! Luckily our car is 4WD so we took it over for 4 nights and had so much fun driving around on the beaches and some of the more bumpy tracks, we managed to get stuck in the sand once and had to be pulled out, all part of the fun! Life on Fraser is all about the sunny weather, it's a place to chill out by one of the gorgeous torquoise lakes or as I said, have fun with the car you're driving!

After Fraser Island we had a bit of car trouble and ended up sleeping the night in the mechanics while it was being fixed, not a place I can say I've spent the night before! I had a girly weekend booked down in melbourne to meet my friend Sophie so getting to the airport was a complete nightmare as the car wasn't fixed, in the end we had to rent a car for the day so James could drop me off there. So whilst I was away having so much fun, he spent a further 3 nights at the mechanics! On the plus side though, Melbourne for the second time was even better, definately a city I can see myself spending more time in. Me and Sophie made it a Sex and the City weekend and paid homage to the film by spending all of the Saturday shopping, drinking cocktails and having a glitzy night out at the casino after watching the film which by the way was amazing!!! All in all a very fun and girly weekend!

Other places we've been include Australia Zoo which was very different to what I originally thought it would be like. It is more like a conservation park and really encourages the visitors to think about all the animals that may become extinct if things don't change, a real eye opener I thought, plus the crocodile show was cool!

We're off to Magnetic Island tomorrow for 3 days which I'm looking forward to. It's a small island in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef so there should be some good snorkelling and nice beaches, more laziness really!!! Well, that's where I am at the moment, I know I've missed things out but there is just too much to write about, all I can say is that I'm having lots of fun and experiencing new places, not that they're all great but on the whole put a smile on our faces :)!!!!

Oooopsey!

Well the last 2 weeks have whizzed by and I haven't even had a chance to check my emails!

So we're now in Brisbane and have seen quite a bit since leaving Sydney...

James has found his 'perfect wave' at a beach called Crescent Head, I had to drag him away after a couple if days and he has yet to find a wave as good apparently! A lot of our time has been spent chilling out on beaches and camping in the car so not too much to report on really!

We went to Byron Bay which we both loved, such a cruisy place with a really good vibe. We stayed in a hostel there and I was the only girl in a dorm room with like 12guys, can't say I've done that before! The card games we played together were fun though! James had his most drunk night there too at a bar called Cheeky Monkeys which involved him prancing around in his boxers to naked musical chairs - he came second!

Another rather interesting place we visited was Nimbin, a small hippy town where they all believe in the legalisation of weed so you could say that it was a mega chilled out place! We didn't stay long but had a little look round the funky coloured buildings and smelt a few strange things!

The Gold Coast is where we've spent the last few days and it really is the epitamy of commercialisation. Although it's quite nice and pretty, as such, it's so Americanised. There are huge skyscrapers just coming out from the beach and the whole place is full of motels. It was beautiful just before we hit the Gold Coast highway at Tweed Heads but after that, the craziness got a bit, well crazy!

Anyway, 2 minutes left on the internet so must be off, will blog again soon...