(Where's) The Sunshine Coast

As you might have gathered, we've been a bit slack with the blog entries of late and are playing catch up today!

After a lovely couple of days with Fay and Ted, we bid them farewell and headed north for our tour of the East Coast.

First stop: Australia Zoo, founded by the legendary late Steve Irwin. This in an amazing zoo - definately one of the best I've been to - and the feeding talks and shows at the Crocoseum are really good! All made even better when Darren volunteered to have some parrots fly out of their cage onto his arm! He won himself a cuddle with a Koala (WAS I JEALOUS?) and photo to prove it for his participation in the show! Brilliant!

We stayed the night in Caloundra before driving The Sunshine Coast to Noosa yesterday. Noosa is a lovely seaside town but with an air of 'elite' about it. Boutiques, Cafes, that kind of thing. Nice for a romantic weekend away I'd imagine! Again, geographical reference for all Aussie places can be found on the wonderous Map de Google.

Today we're in Hervey Bay and having snooped around the 4WD self-drive options and tours, which allow you to discover the world's largest sand island, Fraser Island, we decided to leave this one out of our trip. When you've travelled to the other side of the world, it easy to throw all money-sense to the wind shouting "You're only here once!" But as any backpacker on a budget will tell you, you can't do everything.

We're gonna keep driving north until we come across somewhere we'd like to stay for a few days... We'll follow the blue sky cos it's been a bit cloudy the last 2 days. We'll be back when we have something more exciting to report!

Lots of love, L + D xxx

P.s.We've also got loads of photos to upload but trying to find a decent cafe to do that is no mean feat! Check back soon x