"We all piled into a hire car, Simon, Freya and me. The Lakes were just that bit too far to walk. Missing the opportunity at Echo Point we decided to catch the cable car for the seven mile journey to the summit which took us all of 45 minutes."

"However what tends to get lost in the lavish praise and adulation heaped upon the region by committees and advisory panels is its spiritual significance to Australia’s indigenous Aboriginal people. It really was a most spectacular place."

"Then on to the botanical gardens where we watched large grey ‘flying foxes’. Some think that these curiously named creatures should be renamed flying monkeys because of their biological proximity to humans and monkeys."

"...its representation of the evolutionary adaptation and diversification of the eucalypts in post-Gondwana isolation on the Australian continent..."

"The next day we headed out to Green Island to try our hand at snorkelling. In fact Freya was really
confident with it until she saw a fish in the sea and decided that sitting on the edge with a friend was more fun."

"But the highlight of the day was defiantly cuddling Lonie the Koala in the rain forest. In fact I would have happily taken him home with me were it not for the fact that needing 118,000 eucalyptus trees to survive."

"The next day we headed up to the Blue Mountains, where we expected to find gumtrees, gorges, waterfalls and spectacular walks."

"We hopped onto a local ferry from the plane to the docks. Sailing past Sydney Opera House to our right we ascend the promenade of Manley Beach. Boys strutting around like men, men strutting around like boys."

Sydney

17a

17b

Springwood

12

19

47

Staghorn

1	37	14
8

Harbour

35

16

Three Sisters

13a

13b

13c

Moreton

58

19

59

Echo

7

6

Kuranda

9

3

2

Falconbridge

55a

55b

55c

Chandelier

70a

70b

Queensland

87	83	84
85

Green Island

51

60

10

Kauri

4

5

Lakes

88

19

7

Board Walk

33

50