Thanks everyone for watching our blog and enjoying it as much as we have.

As our Australian trip has ended we thought it only appropriate that our blog should end too.  It’s been a tremendous support for us both whilst we’ve been away and we thank you for understanding our reasons for coming home.  It’s nice to know there’s so many people who care about us.

So here’s to a fantastic 5 months – cheers!

Lee and Liz x

Hi everyone – This post may surprise a few of you! 

We’ve been keeping a little secret from you….we are no longer in Australia as we have flown to Cyprus to surprise Marc and Jo for their wedding which is taking place on Monday 11th June here in the sunny mediteranean.

Sorry we didn’t mention anything before on the blog, but it was very important to us that it remained a complete surprise and that Marc didn’t even have an idea.  We want to apologise to you for a few red herrings on the blog.  We didn’t actually go to Hervey Bay as we wanted to give the impression to Marc and Jo that we were continuing with our journey up the coast for work, when we were in fact heading back down the coast towards Brisbane aiport in preparation for flying home. 

It became evident to us a while ago that we would not be staying in Australia permantely as I, Liz, was unable to commit at this point.  As our money was running low, we chose to come home early and make ourselves available for Lee’s brothers wedding and what a shock it has been for them!  It’s been the best decision we’ve made and we certainly didn’t disappoint. 

We’re here in Cyrus for two weeks in total and are really looking forward to sharing Marc and Jo’s special day with them.  We plan to put some pictures on the blog shortly.

We wil be arriving back in England on 21st June and moving back with my mum and dad until we get our feet back on the ground again (i.e. work) and will be moving back into our little house in Colchester.

I hope you can all understand our reasons for coming home.  We’ve had an amazing 5 months in Australia and have seen what the country has to offer us.   We arn’t ruling out a future in Australia just yet, we just needed to come home before we make the biggest decision of our lives. 

Lee-

Hi all just a quick post to say were still at Hervey Bay, we are in a really nice campsite right on the Esplanade, its nice Walking up it and to the end of the pier to watch the locals do some fishing.

Word on the street is the Whales are on there way up the coast, they have been seen as near as Noosa, So that means we gonna hang on a day or two so we can book onto a Whale watching charter.

Liz and i want to wish my brother Marc and Jo all the best for there Wedding in Cyprus and hope its everything you expected and more… Love you guys!!!

Speak soon

At last my tools have arrived at Terry’s house so we’ve cracked out the map again and have loosely planned our trip up the coast.   To begin with, we will start at Hervey Bay as we have both been looking forward to seeing this place as it’s another hot spot for backpackers going to Fraser Island.

For those of you who have our Ozzy mobile number, you wont be able to contact us on it anymore as I inadvertently took it body boarding with me and it didn’t survive! 

Nothing else to report at the moment.

Earlier this week we left Dicky Beach and have headed back up to the Noosa area. We’ve set ourselves up at the campsite we were at before. It feels great to be back on the gorgeous beaches and mixing with the people here. Today we set ourselves a bit of an adventurous task to walk the coastal track round the headland and further through the national park on to Sunshine Beach on the other side.  It was easily a 3 hour walk incorporating 12km which to some of you may be a doddle but the Australian climate makes it quite difficult.  Nevertheless, we rewarded ourselves with a nice lunch when we got there!

For those of you have been to Noosa before, you could have warned us about Alexandra Beach guys….it’s a nudist beach!  Being a Saturday, it was quite busy and strangely enough, they were mostly men prancing around.  Hmmm.

Lee’s been enjoying using his body board as the surf has got up in the last few days.  I’ve been getting in too for a cool down, but I don’t stay in for too long because I’m a bit wary of the rips.

Tonight we’re going out for a meal to a restaurant we’ve heard have live music so we thought it would be worth a look.

Bye xx