Friday, January 23, 2009

Australia

We arrived in Oz in mid August, what a cultural shock after being in Asia for 8 months!! It was great benig able to talk to everyone without a phrase book :)
First place we headed to was Byron Bay to meet up with Danny and Megan and to celebrate Megan's birthday. We had some great days in Brisbane with them too.



We spent two and a half weeks of our month in Australia doing a help exchange, where we got our accomodation and food basics in exchange for 4 hours work. We lucked out and stayed in a fantastic location Coorabella near Byron Bay with our great hosts Racheal and Gio and shared the work with Wakaba from Tokyo. The location was amazing, we stayed in a gorgeous cabin at the edge of the rainforest without a care in the world. Some photos of this great spot are below.



Whose turn is it to do the cooking!


or collect fire wood....


Rachael hosted a masquerade ball for her birthday and we joined in the celebrations



We headed up to Fraser Island for a few days too, which was definitely a highlight. Some pictures of Fraser below...


At an Aussie Rules game at the Gabba, Brisbane Lions v Carlton, no sign of the tall, dark and O'hailpins though!