our Truck !

Since summer is coming and we definitely want to go and see some more of the Australian countryside, we decided the time has come to get ourselves some wheels. After an intensive search we found the ideal city-car: a Nissan Patrol.

It's a 2002 Nissan Patrol GU III DX, with a 3.0 litre Turbo Diesel with Intercooler. It has a Bullbar with electric winch, a towbar and sidesteps, differential locking and manual transmission (no problems for us Europeans). It has a fuel capacity of 125 litres of diesel divided over a main and a sub tank.

Now we need to find some good places to take it for a ride.

    

    

Spring is in the air !

September 1st is officially the first day of spring in the southern hemisphere. That day was a really nice day already but now it looks like the weather is really improving.

    

Together with Jan-Jaap we took a walk from Bronte to Bondi. At Bondi we sat on the beach, did some more shopping and had dinner. Jan-Jaap went back to Shanghai the next day, and is moving back to Europe a few days later.

    

Brissie

Because our friend Jan-Jaap was over for 2 weeks, we decided to take a long weekend off and fly towards the sunshine. We decided on Brisbane because it was a long time ago we had been there. We just did some shopping, eating, going out and sightseeing.

Brisbane and the river

One day we drove to the sunshine coast and visited Bribie Island, Bribie Island is a large sand island in the northern part of Moreton Bay. The island is separated from the mainland by the Pumicestone Passage, named by Captain James Cook, who noted small floating pieces of pumice.

     
          a Kookaburra             the beach at Bribie Island

Life is hard, eating King Crab again !