Nathan & Joanna's Australian Adventures

23-28.12 Christmas in Queensland

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Christmas is the perfect time to get some baking done! Grace very kindly lent me her personal protective equipment to produce a batch of scones!

Christmas Eve and Grace thought that she'd keep an eye out for Santa!

The excitement builds as everyone picks a pressie for a 'feel & guess'!

Christmas Day and the dressing up begins! The Brisbane Broncos & Fairies being the favorites!

There is always one who forgets where to correctly place those parts that you're unable to eat!

We're having a proper roast bird in hot & humid Brisbane, it's feeling more like Christmas now!!

Sharing a Christmas kiss before being served - host rules apparently!

Noosa beach packed with people enjoying the sunshine!

The view from Loo with a View, down the 'coast!

When in Oz do what the Australian's do! Although this should be on water!

At Daisy Hill Koala Santuary, with a Koala sitting in a tree. S-L-E-E-P-I-N-G! This is the start of the magical mystery tour!

Going to have to try and hide better than that everyone!!

Just to prove that Rew & Cez were actually there - under the Surfers Paradise sign!

Cez & Pez on the magical mystery tour bus!

Sorry Rew, but I had to include this, but I think we all felt a little like at the end of the day!

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12.12 Frank Kitts Park Christmas Tree

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Frank Kitts Park Christmas Tree as the night falls!

Kirkcaldie & Stains lit up like a christmas tree!

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25.01 No Rest In Sight!

Our trip to Adelaide, to Sydney and back to Melbourne covered a total of 4251 kilometres! It was an amazing way to see a small part of such a vast country and the contrasts of the four different States (SA, VIC, NSW & ACT) we drove through. Obviously we would have loved more time to investigate the lots of different places we came across, but that'll just have to wait until next time!

It wouldn't have been made possible with our trusty Magna Wagon, perhaps she isn't quite the lemon that we thought she was! All she asked for was fuel and half a litre of oil! Having a week's break from each other certainly helped too!

We have now worked out that we have driven almost all the way down to the east coast, from Cairns to Byron Bay, and all the way along the bottom from Adelaide up to Sydney! Plus, the extra bit we did on our day trip from Cairns to the Bloomfield Track!

So what's next? There are a number of things to see in Victoria before we have to sell our Magna on, prepare for our own departure, plus there is the blog to update with a number of things that happened towards the end of last year! There will be a number of posts that will be slightly out of order, so don't panic!

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27.12 Adelaide to Melbourne

We left Port Willunga at 9am and headed back to Melbourne for the night. There was a bit of a delay at Wellington for the ferry, as there was a bit of a queue!

Having cleared most of the cars on the ferry, this was the only view of them!

We took a slightly different route home to the one we came on, after it had been suggested to go via the South Grampians. It was a very scenic drive, although it did take us 9 hours to get back, and there was another two days of driving coming up!!

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