Melbourne to Bundaberg....

We flew (home?) to Australia on March 15th and spent a lovely few days again with the Bailey family. We then left for an epic drive on the 18th from Melbourne to Sydney. We drove the majority of the journey in one day, driving until we were about 2 hours outside of Sydney. We were getting very excited indeed because we were meeting Carla's friends Louise T and Louise B ( Lou x2) in Manly the following day!
The meeting nearly didn't happen, as Carla cleverly lost her phone (in the car) and so in the pouing rain we attempted to find the girls on the Manly Corso. It took about 30 seconds to see the girls emerging from a shop! It was so lovely to see them we all had a big cuddle and then went for a rather dubious breakfast where Carla ate pancakes with sour cream!

 

Lou B and Carla




Lou T and Bex



The girls stayed with us for a week. We travelled all the way from Sydney to Bundaberg with them in our stationwagon! We stopped off at Cardiff, Port Maquirie, Byron Bay, Nimbin, Brisbane, Australia Zoo, Noosa and Bundaberg along the way. (see pics) We had such a lovely time, but some unfortuently soggy weather meant they couldn't quite catch up with our lovely Aussie tans! In Byron bay Carla also caught up with Helen, an old Uni friend which was amazing as they hadn't seen eachother in a few years.

The Lou x2 left us in Bundaberg, they travelled further north to Cairns. They got to see a hell of a lot considering they were only in Aus for 3 weeks.