After a 13 hour flight we got off the plane in Sydney it was Friday the 2nd of November. We stayed at a hostel called Wake Up which was more like a hotel it was really nice and in the centre of Sydney. As it was Friday night we had to keep up a long standing tradition and go out and have a drink (or 2!).
The next day we walked around Sydney exploring the city (a little hungover) we went to Darling harbour , the Opera House, botanic gardens, Sydney harbour bridge, the rocks and had a look round all the shops we really enjoyed our self's it was so different from being in South Africa and we felt so free.
In the hostel there was a notice board with lots of things for sale, jobs and people asking if anyone wants to share petrol costs and travel with them. We saw an advert from 2 English guys Ed and Will that said they had a car and wanted 1 or 2 people to share petrol costs and travel round Australia from the 5th of November and back to Sydney for Christmas. We called them and then met up it was perfect as we have 2 months to travel before Faye and Mark are due out to Sydney for New Year. We talked about what we wanted to do and agreed that we would try and make it round Australia and back to Sydney by Christmas.
We left Sydney on the 5th of November and headed for our first stop Coffs Harbour. We have 7 weeks which is 49 days to try and drive all the way round Australia. We are going to camp most of the time and stop at all the main places Byron Bay, Brisbane, Fraser Island, Whitsundays, Cairns, Darwin, Perth, Aires Rock, Adelaide and Melbourne. We are really excited about our road trip and plan to have as much fun as possible. We are also very glad we get to see so much of Australia and if the boys ever let us we may even drive the car which is a Holden Commodore named "the Polar Bear".
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