Our 4thtrip to Australia day 3

 On the morning of our 3rd day we said our goodbyes to our friends D &D and headed to our next friends we were going to stay with but we had decided we would spend the day at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and the daughter of my friend in New Zealand who lives in Brisbane caught  the bus and came and spent the day with us at the Sanctuary 

Sleeping Koalas 

If you paid $75 you got to hold 3 animals they were a Snake , Crocodile , Koala or an Owl as we had all held a Koala we went for the other 3 

Me with the Diamond backed Python 

Jim with a young  Crocodile 

T with Milo  the Owl 

We then went and watch the bird of prey show 

this Eagle was amazing 

After a long day at Lone Pine we headed to our friends L & S  house they had a roast dinner for us all then in the evening we drove into Brisbane to take T home was great to catch up with her has been a long but wonderful day 

More site seeing tomorrow 

Have a great day :)

Our 4th trip to Australia day 2

 On our second morning our friend took us to the Gold Coast was a very nice place the beach was beautiful and the sand was so soft we decided to go up the Q Deck  which has 360 degree views from the observation deck it 230m above ground and has 77 levels which you get to very fast as is the worlds fastest lift 

The Q Deck 

View of the beach

Another amazing view 

Then we went to Sea World so cool 

A Polar bear swimming when we were children they used to have a polar bear at the Auckland New Zealand Zoo but it never got into the water when we were watching 

Then watched the Dolphin show which we don't have in New Zealand anymore 

After spending an awesome day at Sea World our friend took us to the Australian Outback Spectacular 2 for dinner and a show the show was all about the heroes of the light horse from WW1 it is a massive big indoor stadium and the show was done with real horses ,wagons ,dogs it was one of the best things we have ever been to 

Mystery the horse one of the stars of the show we were not allowed to take photos of the show 

We had a wonderful day 

More adventures tomorrow

Have a great day :) 

Our 4th Trip to Australia Day 1

 In August 2010 we took our 4th trip to Australia this time we went to Brisbane as we had 3 friends there that we wanted to catch up with 

We arrived in the morning picked up our rental car as we were not going far we got a very small car , big mistake it was so uncomfortable to ride in 

Our rental car a Hyundai Getz

After getting car we headed to our first Friend in Ipswich we called into Mount Coot-tha took the wrong turn as it turned out and couldn't find the road to the top but got a good view anyway 

After taking these photos we headed to our friends house had some lunch then got on the train and we all headed into Brisbane City , went to South Bank and went for a ride on the Brisbane wheel minus our friend as she is scared of heights , then we all took a ride on the ferry on the Brisbane river.

The wheel 

Beautiful flowers at south bank  

On the river 

After we got off the Ferry we went into the City for dinner then back to our friends for the night was a long but fun day 

More adventures tomorrow 

Have a great day :) 

Trip in New Zealand

 Back in November 2013 Jim and I went away for a long weekend for our 38th wedding anniversary 

We chose to go to Otautu Bay a 3 hour drive north east of Hamilton a beach side place way up the Coromandel Peninsula there are no shops up there so had to take everything we had beautiful weather was so quiet and nice and relaxing 

Our traveling companion Rusty he hated the car was stressed out the whole trip so we dont take him in the car now he stays home with a sitter 

Our home for the weekend 

Amazing sunset 

A bit of fishing 

And walks on the beach 

Lovely view even when tide out 

Was nice to get away for awhile 

Have a great day :)

Our 3rd trip to Australia day 8

 We left my older brothers early in the morning and headed to Adelaide to my younger brothers we spent a lovely first day just catching up the next day they  took us to Victor Harbour about an hours drive South  of Adelaide while there we took a tram ride out to Granite Island  a tourist destination and home to Fairy Penguins 

The tram takes you out to the island on a bridge with tram tracks 

Awesome rock formations 

And amazing views 

we went back to Victor Harbour for some lunch then headed back to Adelaide 

On the way home we saw this house made with rose bushes so beautiful 

We have had a wonderful time and  on looking back at our holiday I realized that the time we were away we had traveled on A plane ,shuttle van  ,ferry ,bus ,double decker bus , cable car , monorail ,taxi ,golf cart ,paddle steamer , horse drawn carriage ,horse drawn tram , rode a camel ,car ,and stood on a submarine 

Have a great day :)

 

Our 3rd Trip to Australia day 7

On the morning of day 7 we headed to Broken Hill NSW so back across the border we go, the reason we went to Broken Hill , Well riding a Camel  was on my bucket list and I know you can ride a camel in a few states of Australia on the beach but I wanted to ride one in the closest thing to a desert so Broken Hill it was and riding a Camel was awesome 

Broken Hill is a mining town they mine Silver Ore ,out where the camel riding was there was a few old buildings 

After we left Broken Hill we crossed the border again into South Australia we were heading to Crystal Brook to stay with my Brother and his family 

A very long and straight road 

Has been an awesome day more tomorrow 

Have a great day :)

Our 3rd trip to Australia day 6

We got up Early on day 6 as we had a long drive ahead of us our destination Wentworth Victoria 

Wentworth was popular for pokie tour bus rides from Adelaide SA prior to the legalisation of pokie machines in that state 

we went for a wander round town we went and checked out the weirs 

We found a monument of the TEA20 Harry Ferguson tractor for their part in the building of the massive levee banks that protected Wentworth against the devasting 1956 flood

We found a statue of a man named possum who was a homeless man who helped on farms in and around Wentworth in exchange for food he slept in trees hence his name he lived this life for some 50 years 

Jim having some fun with Possum 

In the afternoon we went out to Perry Sand Hills located 6 km out of Wentworth  a unique land formation 333 hectares of continuously shifting sand dunes 

Its a backdrop for many films and TV shows during WW2 it was used as a bombing range 

Me on top of a dune trying to find some phone reception 

When the sand moves it covers up the trees 

Our rental car in front of a sand dune 

was a very busy day but it was great another long day tomorrow 

Have a great day :)