Well I have been a bit slack at posting on the blog but have been fairly busy so I will update on everything we have been upto. Where to start - well mine and Garrys birthdays have both been and gone, mine in June and Garrys in July. We had a lot of fun for my birthday we had a meal on a paddle steamer up the Brisbane river, which was lovely, for Garrys birthday we went to a restaurant called Tukka. It is an Australia Bushtucker restaurant, all the food is Australian so Aussie meats and berries it was just devine. We went out in Brisabane with some of the people I work with which involved at lot of alcohol and dancing but it was a really good evening.
As we had a few weekends of camping we spent some quiet ones in Brisbane having a relax. We went to the Southbank and checked out some of the museums which was cool. We also went to Mount Tambourine which is in the Hinterlands. It is part of the mountain range, we did some walking through bush and went to visit some of the winerys up there - well Cedar Creek Winery. We had lunch at the winery on the patio which was really lovely we also went to the Glow worm caves. It is man made caves that they house glow worms in it was quite cool bit weird! We did some wine tasting and ended up buying lots of good wine.
Mt Tambourine View
Bushwalking at Mt Tombourine
More walking
Bushwalking
Garry in a tree
Sarah in a tree
Cedar Creek Winery
Hinterland
Unfortunalty Garrys Grandad past away which was very sad and difficult for Garry, he decided not to go home for the funeral as we thought that his Grandad would rather we stayed here and did something nice for him. The funeral was when we had travelled down to the Gold coast so because his Grandad was in the navy we thought it would be nice to do something at the sea. We got some balloons and some flowers. We wrote messages to him and attached them to the balloons and let them go, putting the flowers on the water. It was very sad but felt really special for a special man. We will miss his Grandad lots
We had a nice weekend at the gold coast at Surfers Paradise. It is completely different to everywhere else we have been. It is very busy and commericial lots of high rise buildings and nightclubs. As usual when we go camping we went night fishing but it was impossible to get a spot on the beach to fish there were hundreds of people lining the shores it was amazing. Luckily we found a spot and Garry caught two tailor which we filleted and he cooked on the BBQ for tea. On the Sunday we went on a Kayak tour which was alot of fun. We kayak to an Island called Wave break where we had breakfast and snorkelled seeing lots of funky coloured fish. We then kayaked on to South Stradbroke Island which is a sand Island that has been cut off from North Stradbroke, it is the only place you will see Swamp wallabies. We had a walk around there and then kayaked back. hard work but lots of fun.
Surfers Paradise
Surfers Paradise
While we were on the Gold coast we decided that we wanted to go Whale watching so we booked it for the following weekend. Garry wanted to go on a fishing charter so we booked that too, so we treked off to the Gold coast again this weekend. We went out Whale watching on the sat and saw lots of Humpback whales that are migrating up the Australian coast. The were amazing, we saw a few different pods of whales. They were so massive one of them swam right past the front of the boat - all I can say is wow.
Whales
On Sunday Garry dragged me out of bed at 4.45am to go fishing (yeah was appreciating that!). We set out on the boat at 6am in time to see the most lovely sunrise and take 100s of photos of it. We travelled out of Gold coast for 2h on the boat and were fishing in water 90m deep, it was killing my arm to reel in just the weight I had on it let alone if I got a fish. I was a bit concerned that I was the only woman on the boat but in the end worked to my advantage as I just acted the weak, dim woman and got the men running around after me hehehehehe. Well as always I caught more fish than Garry heheheheh over here there is a size limit on fish you can keep. I caught 4 fish but only 3 of them were big enough to keep, Garry caught 2 fish and niether of them were big enough ooopppss. I managed to catch a Pearl Perch, Mauhi and Red Snapper. So last night we had the snapper for dinner and it was lovely.
Sarah's Fish - Snapper, Maui, Pearl Perch
My Snapper!
Well I think that is everything we have done over the last couple of weeks other than go and see Harry Potter which I was very excited about so we saw it the first day it was out here and I loved it. I hope you enjoy the pictures and I will keep it updated.
