Last post from Australia – NSW Coast & Sydney

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.

 SeaStorm  

 

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 ..

Campervan1 Campervan 2

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..

 Dolphins2  Dolphins and baby  Dolphins 1

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.

 Stranded_Jeep

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..

James Sand Surfing Quene Sand Surfing Dudes Sand Surfboards

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..

Hunter Valley - Lindemans

 

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.

On the Bridge

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..

Sydney from Watsons Bay 

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.

 Gang and Irsh Bear 

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!!!

Bears on Circular Quay

Hugs and kisses to all!

James & Quene

 

One Response to “Last post from Australia – NSW Coast & Sydney”
  1. Richie 15 March 2006 at 1:39 am #

    Did a google of “bofio” just there

    a graph of belch ratio to cloud cover, precipitation and temperature somewhere in africa.

    http://www.fallingrain.com/world/GV/10/Bofio.html

    looks like nintendo are releasing a console version of the game, I think you have to smack the other person with the controller or somefink.

    http://www.fallingrain.com/world/GV/10/Bofio.html

    A bofio enraged dog?? scary!!

    http://www.distrimagen.es/catalogo/extras/dossiers/ff1006do.pdf

  2. admin 15 March 2006 at 4:44 am #

    Richie…
    Bofio! We just arive in Auckland and the hostal… we have book the room for u… we ask them that your room has to be in the other side of the corredor…. So we can’t ‘hear’ u .. 😉

    The p/w is just to copy the numbers written to proof ur humanessesesss .. this is new but is better than delete spam..

    Hasta manana chaval.!
    Hasta la fuego Sr Montoya

  3. Quene 15 March 2006 at 11:29 am #

    Calenco,
    No he recibido nada tuyo a hotmail.Por cierto para poner comentarios, la ultima de los administradores es copiar los numeros en el espacio..
    para parar el spam… espero que este metodo no e’spam’te a la gente que pone comentarios …
    Por cierto donde esta Agus?
    Pronto pondremos fotos de Nueva Zelanda.. Es completamente diferente a Australia… mas Europeo ..mas creativo.. mas impresionante…como en el se쨙or de los anillos.
    A ver si vemos a Gandalf y Frodo un dia de estos.
    Definitivamente no vamos a ver a U2 St Patricks Day pero seguro que mucha gente estara por la calle cantandoles.. haremos un especial U2 con o sin ellos.
    Espero que la hija de ‘The Edge’ supere la leucemia pronto.

    Besos pa to@s

  4. Quene 15 March 2006 at 11:42 am #

    Richie,
    I can’t believe you searched bofio on the web..
    Really impresive.. maybe in that little town in Africa they play it and they brought to Spain and now is spreading all the way to New Zealand and the rest of the world..
    I wonder if they play it in Mexico.

    Hasta la vista

  5. Monica & Peter 16 March 2006 at 12:20 pm #

    Hey,

    Hope all is well, hows NZ going? What have you done since arriving? Shame about U2, it was announced here that they’ve rescheduled for November. Well this is our last post before we head for Hong Kong, so we’l mail you when we get there.

    Have a great St.Patricks day,
    Love from home. 😉

  6. san fernando boys and girls 16 March 2006 at 4:02 pm #

    He tardado unos dias en salir porque se me debio meter un pajaro chino en el ordenador con las peliculas. Y ademas Bea se ha instalado el adsl en su portatil y como siempre esta de rollos sociales no deja espacio a los demas.
    Estas monumental con la tabla de surf. Dice Paloma que parece que naciste con ella debajo del brazo
    La caravana es fabulosa. nosotros la cogimos bajita para poderla guardar en el garaje, pero la vuestra es mejor y mas cómoda.
    El puente de san jose lo vamos a pasar en alicante con la madre de Paloma , ahora que esta a “tiempo”. No entiendo mucho de que van los cinco caracteres , de momento los he copiado en el recuadro de la izquierda de donde dice generar una nueva imagen. Esta bien así ?

    Abrazos a los dos gloriosos transeuntes.

  7. Nadine Fagan 17 March 2006 at 4:17 am #

    Hey there,

    Happy St. Patricks Day, we are off to the Rocks tonight and was hoping to meet up with “Mad Melissa”. Has her mobile number changed?

    Mel, if you are out there, give me a call!!

    Well, I hope you have a fab time in NZ, looking forward to the updates.

    Missing you already!!
    Nxx

  8. Jon 17 March 2006 at 1:02 pm #

    Hola Couple,

    HAPPY ST. PAT’S DAY !!!

    Sure you find a leprechaun in NZ. (we want to see a pic of it, ok!!)

    It has to be nice land to climb the hugh montains.

    Hugs & Kisses like Blue Chesses!!

    Posted from * Basque Country

  9. James & Quene 20 March 2006 at 1:22 am #

    Hola los San Fernandinos!

    Nos alegra que haya podido escribir otra vez!
    SI lo de los caracteres es para evitar spam oi algo asi, nos lo pusieron automaticament, pero eso pones los caracteres en el cuadro asi saben que no es algun tipo de spammer!!! Las fotos con la tabla, bueno es mucho mas facil llevarla debajo del brazo que debajo de los pies dentro del agua, jajajaja! Feliz Dia de San Patricio a tod@s!

    Hi Nadine,
    Hope you had a good time on Paddy’s Day! We’re just working on the Wellington post, hten will put up one for Auckland and Paddy’s Day., it was maaaaaaaad!!!!!! Yea, Mel was having probs with a replacement phone they gave her while her new phone was getting repaired…

    Agur Jon!
    Happy Paddy’s day to you guys too! Mmm probably have a picture of a leprechaun, or someone wearing green on Paddy’s day, there were lots of them here!!!

    Muxukuxu!
    Besos!
    Hugs!

    J & Q

    James & Quene

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