James & Quene travelling around the World

Well everyone, this is our last post from Australia

Just a few more photos from the remainder of the 3700km drive from Cairns to Sydney!

Esp: Chic@s este es nuestro ultimo post desde Australia..que pena no? Y estas son nuestras ultimas fotos de los 3700 Km que nos hemos hecho conduciendo de Cairns a Sydney!

Great view of a storm coming towards land, this was taken just south of Byron Bay, apparently it rains a lot in the area, trust our luck!!!

Esp: Impresionante vista de una tormenta acercandose a Byron Bay… y como siempre la lluvia nos sigue a donde vamos.

   

 

Finally a couple of photos of our home for the 3 1/2 weeks on the road!

Esp: Nuestra casa durante las tres semanas y media en la carretera ..

 

We visited Port Stewart staying in Nelson Bay, overlooking the natural harbour that is home to many very friendly wild bottle-nosed dolphins. We saw a few different ‘pods’ wth up to 20 dolphins in each pod. In the nursery pods there are young dolphins with adult females teaching them the skills to survive. We saw a few younger ones, they’re the most inquisitive and kept hopping out of the water to take a look at us, kinda funny, us watching them watching us…In the middle photo you can see the baby dolphin swimmnig to the right, aahhhhhh……

Esp: Visitamos Port Stewart -Nelson bay, con vistas a la bahia, hogar de muchos delfines, pudimos ver grupos de hembras con delfines bebe.. mas curiosos que sus padres..quien esta mirando a quien..

    

Nelson Bay also has some sand dunes, here we saw a jeep in a bit of trouble by the looks of things, but this photo shows the sheer size of the dunes!

Esp: La bahia de Nelson tiene tambien muchas dunas, vimos un jeep en lo alto de la duna… uno se hace la idea del tamaño de las dunas.

 

And these photos show us on the sand dunes doing some surfing of a different type!

Esp: En esta foto estamos deslizando por la ladera de la duna.. como en Fonbasalla -El Bierzo- Leon.. muy divertido…pero acabas con arena por todas partes..

  

After Nelson Bay we headed inland to check out some of the wine on offer at the famous Hunter Valley, home to a few famous vineyards and a few not so famous ones! Ths photo is from Lindeman’s vinyward, probably one of the more well known, Rosemount and Tyrrels are also nearby.

Esp: Despues de Nelson Bay visitamos Hunter Valley de donde salen casi todos los vinos Australianos… el paisaje parecia mucho al sur de Francia con todas las viñas , el  sol y las montañas. James estuvo probando unos cuantos (Quene conducia)… dice que como el Rioja no hay nada..! Ah.. tambien tienen aceitunas..

 

Then back to Sydney, we drove over the Harbour Bridge, just for the fun!!!

Esp: De vuelta en Sydney , pasamos por el puente solo por diversion asi la proxima vez que lo veamos , podemos decir que lo hemos cruzado.

Another nice spot in Sydney, Watsons Bay on the sheltered side of the harbour, big change from Bondi, nice and tranquil, with great views of the city.

Esp: Ultimo dia en Sydney fuimos a visitar otra de las famosas playas por aqui Watsons Bay (mas tranquilo que Bondi Beach, y casas espectaculares) .. con la imagen de Sydney al fondo..

 

Last night in Sydney, with Mel we met up with my cousin Nadine and her husband John for a farewell dinner. Just around the corner on Crcular Quay there was this great UN sponsored exhibition of painted bears from all different countries. Here’s us with the Irish one! 

Esp: Ultima noche en Sydney, quedamos con Nadine (la prima de James) , su marido, y Melissa. Cerca del restaurante habia una exposicion de Unicef y Naciones Unidas , todos los paises del mundo representados por un oso… este es el irlandes, el español parecia como una obra de Gaudi.

  

Finally from us both, thanks a lot for visiting, viewing and leaving comments! We really appreciate that you guys want to share in our trip! So here’s lots of love going out to you all! Next stop New Zealand!!!!!

Esp: Pues eso es todo amigos desde Australia, nos da mucha pena irnos de aqui , pero quedan muchos paises por visitar.. Nos vemos en Nueva Zelanda!!!

Hugs and kisses to all!

James & Quene

 

G’Day from the Sunshine Coast (north of Brisbane), Gold Coast (South of Brisbane) and Byron Bay (Northern N.S.W Coast!!!) all great swimming and surfing beaches, no jellyfish, nor crocodiles in the sea now that we’re officially out of the tropics, having passed south of the Tropic of Capricorn! 1st time for James to surf in the Pacific Ocean, in Noosa! Just give me a few more lessons and I’ll be world class material!

Español :Hola desde ‘la costa soleada’ de Australia.Aqui ya no hay medusas que pican, ni cocodrilos en el mar ,ya dejamos atras el Tropico de Capricornio y pasada esa linea imaginaria ya se puede nadar agusto , y las calidad de las olas aqui hacen que esta zona sea uno de los paraisos de los surferos .. James surfeando las olas del pacifico por primera vez… no lo hace mal…!

Just south of the Sunshine Coast, and a bit inland are the Glass House Mountains, forming part of the local Aborigins Dreaming - Creation of the World mythology.

Esp: Glass House Mountains, detras de cada montaña en Australia hay una historia aborigen de como se formaron cuando ‘el sueño’- the Dreaming - como ellos llaman a la creacion del mundo.

James gets up a monster’s nose outside the wax museum at Surfers Paradise!

Esp: En el museo de cera de Surfers Paradise donde pasamos el fin de semana para ir de marcha aprovechamos porque sabiamos que aqui te lo pasas bien.

From Coolangatta you have a great view accross the bay to Surfers’ Paradise, no more one story houses here! This spot is the most high rise of all the coast.

Esp: Desde Coolangatta se puede ver Surfers Paradise desde otra perspectiva, es la unica ciudad donde las casas de un piso han pasado a la historia.. el resto de la costa no esta tan desarrollado.

Just 5 minutes inside the campsite and Quene’s scoring hoops! Been a while, but she can still show off the perfect technique!

Esp: Cinco minutos tarde en ponerme a marcarme unos tiritos nada llegar al camping y ver que habia una cancha..Ahhhh.. que monoooooo!! Aqui teneis un ejemplo de tecnica perfecta .. jajajaja

James after a few surfing lessons, really he’s a born natural!!! Ah no this is the world championship tour at Coolangatta, southern Gold Coast!

Esp: Coolangatta con sus olas gigantes la hicieron la ciudad perfecta para acoger el campeonato del mundo de surf.. y nosotros justo estabamos por ahi.

 

Lots of surfer chicks too strutting down the beach, not sure if this girl is participating in the world championships, who knows…?

Esp: No solo los chicos surfean por aqui.. vimos muchas ’surf babes’ desafiando al mar. No sabemos si esta chica tambien estaba participando en el campeonato del mundo de surf.

At the right spot at the right time, we cought Kelly Slater (USA) world #1 (left) and Mick Fanning (AUS) #2 (right) battle it out on the waves, some awesome surfing to be seen!

Esp: Estar en el momento y el lugar justos es importante sobretodo si dos de los mejores surferos estan delante de tu camara.. De izquierda a derecha: Kelly Slater (EEUU) y Mick Fanning(AUS) .

These events attract big crowds, it’s an awesome sight. We caught the 1st round of the event, 2 weeks left to decide the winner, but you can find out on http://www.quiksilver.com!

Esp: Este tipo de eventos siempre atrae a mucha gente.. es bastante espectacular de ver. Esta es la primera ronda y quedan muchas semanas para saber quien es el campeon este año.

Byron Bay, accross the border in New South Wales, about 80km south of Coolangatta. A big hippie town, lots of surfers and backpackers make this place really chilled out! Not too mention the great surf and amazing beaches!

Esp: Byron Bay al sur de Coolangatta, paraiso de los hippies , los surferos y mochileros, playas increibles para surfear, algunas tablas eran preciosas.

Byron Head just at the tip of Byron Bay is Australia’s most eastern point. The light house was built in 1901, and shines 48km out to sea at night time! Looks a bit like Ireland, right?

Esp: El faro de Byron Bay y el punto mas oriental de Australia, fue construido en 1901, esta parte de Australia es la mas bonita.. parece Irlanda verdad?

Well we’ve got one more post left, too many pics to do all at once!!!

As usual please leave your comments if you visit, it is great to hear from you guys!

Bueno chic@s solo queda un post de Australia nuestra aventuras por estas tierras estan en su recta final.

No seais timidos y poner comentarios asi sabemos que estais ahi al otro lado.

Besos como quesos/Kisses like Cheeses!

Quene & James

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