Bye Bye POMPOM, Bye Bye Australia

This is our last Australia blog entry. Very Very sad.

So much has happened in the last month. We arrived back in Sydney and had lot of things to organise before we leave for Indonesia.

We sold our lovely home 'POMPOM' to Beryl and Bob, a really lovely retired couple originally from the NW of England.

Before we dropped it off we went off for a couple of weeks to explore the area north of Sydney. We went to Nelson Bay and had a lovely day on a boat trip to visit Broughton Island. On the way there and back we saw several pods of Bottle Nose and Common dolphins. Many of them swam with the boat and Nic got some great snaps:

On the way back Nic had a go in the boom-net. Here he is looking very relaxed. A few seconds later he looked like he was in a washing-machine!

We also had a few peaceful days in Myall Lakes national park. We parked up right next to his gorgeous lake that was full of pelicans and ducks. It was lovely swimming in the cool water.

The camp site was also full of massive monitor lizards. This one climbed the tree next to our van.

Here I am with the proud new owners of POMPOM. We hope they have as much fun as we've had with her.

Now we're in Sydney city centre and having a blow-out before we leave for Bali tomorrow morning.

We feel rather nervous about cycling through SE Asia but we're also very excited. Wish us luck and keep following our adventures.

Bye Bye Australia and all the great people we've met along the way.