Sydney and beyond...

We have a lot to cover in this post, so I better get going, first things first though, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS! Hope you had a good day and a nice evening out will call again soon and catch up proper. We have finally left the clutches of Melbourne however not before we tasted some of the local wildlife. Between us we ate a roo-burger, a croc burger, emu sausage and crocodile tail. All of which were pretty tasty, crocodile really does taste like chicken. We spent our last night hanging around in backpacker bars with some mates it was a good send off to the city.

We left Melbourne on an overnight bus that took 12 hours to get to Sydney and we've been here ever since. We had a wander round the harbour area and seen the famous sites (see photos). Sydney is an ok place. If it wasn't for the bridge and the Opera House, it'd just be another big city.
However these landmarks do give it something and makes the harbour area a good place to sit and have lunch or a drink. We both feel that it lacks some of the charm that Melbourne had, but this might be because we spent a lot more time there.

Yesterday we took a day trip out to the Blue mountains. Apparently these are not actually mountains, they were created by the erosion of various ice ages over the last 120 million years. We visited the 3 sisters, so called because of various stories, mostly involving a father turning his daughters into stone for some reason or other and then losing his magic bone. We had a really good tour, we went on the steepest railroad incline in the world (52 degrees!), a cable car and visited a wildlife sanctuary which houses only Australian animals. I now have so many pictures of wallabies, kangaroos and koalas that it's ridiculous. The koalas were painfully cute, apparently they sleep up to 18 hours a day, not a bad life. When they run around though they are pretty nippy. We were dropped off in the Olympic village and we got a ferry back into the city. Where we got some stunning views of the harbour, the bridge and the Opera House.

Last night Brownie did the Harbour Bridge climb. It took about 3 hours and it sounds like he had an awesome time, but I'll let him tell you all about that when he can, but I can show you the photos.

The next few days are going to be pretty hectic, we leave Sydney tonight at 9.45pm arrive in Byron Bay 10.15am tomorrow. We then jump back on the bus at 4.15am the following day to arrive in Hervey bay lunchtime on the 17th in time for our Fraser Island 4x4 briefing. We then spend the next 3 days on Fraser Island. We'll try and update when we get to Hervey bay, but if not then there'll be more from us on the 20th.