2000kms down the East Coast
Our travels along the east coast continued down to the up-market town of Noosa, where we spent an enjoyable afternoon on the beach. The camping lifestyle is great fun, every night we set up our awning, our camp chairs, table and gas stove and it feels like home where ever we are. In this frame of mind we ambled down to our next stop, Australia Zoo and the Glass house mountains enjoying the traveling almost as much as the destination. Australia zoo was cool as all the animals had loads of space to roam about, we saw a giant crocodile show and touched koalas. However the visit was also sad as Steve Irwin the owner had recently died and hundreds of bouquets of flowers had been placed at the entrance. We zoomed on down to Brisbane where we made a brief stop to change our flight tickets and extend our traveling for a few extra months. We didn't stay in the big city of Brisbane opting for a few days on the beaches of Surfers Paradise but finding this to be fairly built up as well moved on down to the restful Bryron bay. We really enjoyed Bryron bay and spend 5 days there hanging out on the beach, playing bat and ball, going out in the evenings with our new friends on the campsite and enjoying the warm weather before heading south again towards the cold.
Disaster struck as we crossed the border into New South Wales and tried to register our van. It turned out the people who sold it to us hadn't bothered to turn up to their public vehicle inspection (a half hour test which they had already paid for) and the years REGO we had bought off them had been canceled and along with it our insurance. We had inadvertently been driving about for the last two months without REGO or insurance and could face heavy fines or lose our licenses. We raced down to Hollands family in Newcastle to stay with them while we sorted out the nightmare which involved a confusing rainbow of pink, green and blue slips, driving all over the state and lots of energy and money!
Staying with Holland's uncle Ed, his girlfriend Ingrid and their house of cats was fantastic as it was the first house we had stayed in for 6 months!! We had a lovely big bed in the spare room and it was really nice to hang out and get ourselves sorted. Ed had a big lounge in the shed where we hung out and watched videos. Ingrid cooked us amazing food (our first home cooked meals for months!!). There was also a litter of kittens too. After a week of getting our van together we got prepared for our trip to the Red Centre of Australia and Ayers Rock.
Disaster struck as we crossed the border into New South Wales and tried to register our van. It turned out the people who sold it to us hadn't bothered to turn up to their public vehicle inspection (a half hour test which they had already paid for) and the years REGO we had bought off them had been canceled and along with it our insurance. We had inadvertently been driving about for the last two months without REGO or insurance and could face heavy fines or lose our licenses. We raced down to Hollands family in Newcastle to stay with them while we sorted out the nightmare which involved a confusing rainbow of pink, green and blue slips, driving all over the state and lots of energy and money!
Staying with Holland's uncle Ed, his girlfriend Ingrid and their house of cats was fantastic as it was the first house we had stayed in for 6 months!! We had a lovely big bed in the spare room and it was really nice to hang out and get ourselves sorted. Ed had a big lounge in the shed where we hung out and watched videos. Ingrid cooked us amazing food (our first home cooked meals for months!!). There was also a litter of kittens too. After a week of getting our van together we got prepared for our trip to the Red Centre of Australia and Ayers Rock.
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