You Bloody Beauts!

And we won the 2011 Rugby World Cup!

Let’s just say, I am especially proud to be a Kiwi today!

Bargarra, QLD

Our trip to Australia was fantastic. Ten days was the perfect amount of time, not too little; not to long. We went to Melbourne first for four nights, and for my cousins wedding. Then we flew up to Queensland and drove up the coast from Brisbane to Bargarra: A beach side resort community, very beautiful, just outside of Bundaberg.

The soil in Bargarra was very red.

Our first day in Bargarra we drove into Bundaberg for a little drive around the city, a visit to a nature park, and a tour of the Bundaberg Rum Factory. After we headed back to Bargarra for a late lunch and a nap.

There is a train line running through the nature park.

Turtles were sunbathing on the edges of the ponds.

These funny looking birds were everywhere.

On the Tuesday we woke up super early and drove ninety minutes north to a town called, "The Town of 1770." There we went on a tour along the coast, up to one of the oldest lighthouses in the region, on a U.S. Army LARC. A boat-sort-of-thing, that can drive on land and sail in water. It was an awesome day, the weather was mint and it was fun seeing heaps of sea animals and birds. Also, we went for the first time.

Some of the view from the beginning of the journey.

The Sand dunnes we rode down.

Looking back at what we have come along…

While driving up a hill, with roads like this…

In this…

To see this Lighthouse…

And beauty like this.

We spent the Wednesday relaxing in Bargarra and on the Thursday we went to an art gallery in Bundaberg. We woke up Friday morning to take the five hour drive back down to Brisbane and fly home.

Any words I use to describe how much of an awesome trip it was would all be understatements, so just think of it as a bit of family time, a bit of partying, a bit of relaxing with some adventures thrown in.

I can not wait for the next trip!