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Mar 21st - Fremantle
We don’t board our ship home until 3:15pm but although we have a delayed checkout we met vacate by noon. We had breakfast in Dome again...
pameladawnferris
Mar 23, 20232 min read
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Mar 20th - Perth
First up the weather. Today started at 27c reached highs of 37c and ended around 27c. For us brits that is silly season weather and...
pameladawnferris
Mar 21, 20233 min read
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Mar 19th - Adelaide to Perth
We had a lie in and breakfast in the hotel before ordering a taxi and heading off to the airport for our final flight - off to Perth....
pameladawnferris
Mar 21, 20232 min read
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Mar 18th - Adelaide
Today is for exploring Adelaide but after yesterdays excursion we slept in and also knocked off a wash as one of us woke earlier than the...
pameladawnferris
Mar 21, 20233 min read
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Mar 17th - Kangaroo Island
Today is a tour day. We have booked to go to Kangaroo island which is Australia’s 3rd biggest after Tasmania and some place called...
pameladawnferris
Mar 20, 20233 min read
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Mar 16th - Port Fairy to Adelaide
This is the day we have not been looking forward to. We have 6.5hrs of driving to our hotel. We then need to check in and dump countless...
pameladawnferris
Mar 19, 20233 min read
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Mar 15th - Great Ocean Road
Today our morning started with an early wake up. We left at 7.30 to start our long drive from Geelong to Port Fairy, almost all of which...
pameladawnferris
Mar 17, 20233 min read
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Mar 14th - Melbourne to Geelong
This morning we said our goodbyes to Melbourne and headed to Geelong which is a seaside town and the starting point of the Great Ocean...
pameladawnferris
Mar 15, 20233 min read
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Mar 13th - Melbourne
We started at 9am and it was cold (about12c) and we needed warm trousers and fleeces. This probably sounds strange but we split up again...
pameladawnferris
Mar 14, 20233 min read
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Mar 12th - Albury to Melbourne
Mark started the day by getting his missing towels and having a shower and then we were off to Melbourne - we haven’t learned it’s...
pameladawnferris
Mar 14, 20233 min read
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Mar 11th - Bowral to Albury
We started the day by splitting up. Pam went back into Bowral for breakfast and to have a look around. Meanwhile Mark visited the Donald...
pameladawnferris
Mar 13, 20232 min read
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Mar 10th - Uluru to Sydney to Bowral
We slept in. Yay! We didn’t need to check out till 10am and our shuttle to the airport was at 10:50 so we got as much sleep as we could...
pameladawnferris
Mar 11, 20232 min read
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Mar 9th - Uluru (Ayers Rock)
We awoke bleary eyed before 5am for our tour. We went to our usual pick up point and was met by a small coach and our guide Matt. There...
pameladawnferris
Mar 11, 20233 min read
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Mar 8th - Sydney to Uluru
The morning started with us loading up the car at 6:30. With a bigger car and bigger boot we could get almost all our stuff, except one...
pameladawnferris
Mar 10, 20232 min read
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Mar 7th - Sydney Day 4
Today is the last day we get to see the centre of Sydney so we decided to finish off a few things on our should see list plus a few...
pameladawnferris
Mar 10, 20233 min read
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Mar 6th - Sydney Day 3
Today was not a success at all. For a start, temperatures in Sydney reached 41c breaking all records for an autumn day. We escaped that...
pameladawnferris
Mar 9, 20233 min read
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Mar 5th - Port Macquarie to Sydney
We spent a bit of time in the morning in the town and we found where many of the koala statues hang out - there is a shop in town that...
pameladawnferris
Mar 9, 20233 min read
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Mar 4th - Gold Coast to Port Macquarie
This was more or less a travelling day. We set off at 8am and very soon lost an hour as we crossed the state border into New South Wales...
pameladawnferris
Mar 4, 20232 min read
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Mar 3rd - Surfer’s Paradise (Gold Coast)
We caught a tram a few stops to the end of the G-link tram line to a place called Broadbeach. It was another surfers beach with a few...
pameladawnferris
Mar 4, 20232 min read
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Mar 2nd - Brisbane to Gold Coast
Today is essentially Tamborine mountain day which is just under an hour from Brisbane. We checked out of our Brisbane hotel around 8:30...
pameladawnferris
Mar 4, 20234 min read
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