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S U N D A Z E

When any Londoner thinks of November you conjure up ideas of dark evenings, grey days and cold mornings, it's the month where you say goodbye to autumn, hello to winter and start your christmas shopping. This year it is a different story for us. November in Australia means getting ready for summer, hot days and warm nights. Yes there's still the matter of christmas presents but this year we won't be panic shopping either.

S E A S I C K N E S S

Between June and November thousands of Humpback whales migrate to and then from the warm Queensland waters, we managed to spot them on their annual commute back to the Antarctic. It was truelly amazing to see such large animals in their natural habitat, I stupidly only took my digital camera rather than my SLR which had a better zoom on it, and in the bright sunshine I couldn't see the LCD screen on the digital camera so was snapping away blindly at the ocean whenever the mammal came to the surface, so was pleasantly surprised that I managed to get some half decent shots-including one of the infamous 'blow'. However the whole whale watching trip was tainted by me getting really seasick, we were warned when we got there that it was a really bad day for seasickness, I smugly turned to Ben and said I will be fine I don't suffer from seasickness- not quite sure how I came to this conclusion since I haven't been on a boat/ferry since before the Eurostar! Once we were off the boat I started to feel better and as part of our whale watching ticket we got access to Seaworld, as we have been to the one in Florida we didn't bother with the shows as it was quite late in the day by this point instead we went and had lunch overlooking the dolphin nursery-spot the baby dolphin in the first photo-that little one was only 6 months old-cutest thing I have ever seen (except maybe my cat when he was a baby)! I could have spent the whole day staring at the dolphins (and they were definitely staring back at me), but Ben dragged me off to see the Polar bears. Seeing the white furred bears was quite amazing, they are beautiful creatures and you really want to give them a big cuddle- which obviously you can't because they would crush you! Then it was off to the shark aquarium.....dun dun dun

Disclaimer: the photos are in the post below; these weren't taken at our local beach nor did we learn to scuba dive- the sharks were safely behind glass.

S H A R K I N F E S T E D W A T E R S

The marine life at our local beach!!!!!

T H E R I V E R C I T Y

Done a lot of walking in Brisbane; got many blisters to show for it, its got beautiful walk ways all along the river so we must have walked about 5 or 6 miles a day. There are a few different parts to see and everyday there seemed to be a different market. The centre was bustling day and night so fortunately Ben managed to find a 24 hour sports bar for us to watch the Manchester United game which started here at 11:30pm!

In the Valley there was a free mini festival on so we got to see some live music, and had the most delicious 96% fat free passion fruit and lychee ice cream. Was told the fashion wasn't much in Australia (except maybe in Sydney and Melbourne) but found some wicked clothes shops, we were tempted by many items but uncharacteristically of us both we walked away empty handed.

All over Brisbane you can see these Lavender blossom trees and hot pink flowers and these slightly gothic looking trees where the branches wind up each other. The only wildlife we saw in Brisbane was a few lizards and some birds..surprisingly no bugs or spiders yet! After seeing the little lizard we saw a huge one about a foot long but wasn't quick enough with the camera!

D A Y O N E B R I S B A N E

After our 22 hour flight we landed in Brisbane, we got to our hotel at 2am; which was closed, woke up the manager eventually, to be told that they didn't have our booking until 2pm and were fully booked so to return in 12 hours! Every other hotel in Brisbane seemed to be booked as well. Eventually found a vacant room for a nice dent in the wallet!

Brisbane is situated on a river, so our first day we had a stroll along the long river paths. The weather was great really sunny and our hotel was in a really good position for all areas. The jet lag kicked in around 6pm when we both fell asleep on the sofa!!

S&B x