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Hello and thank you for visiting our blog! We (Tanbay and Laura) left England and began house sitting in Australia. 

So far we've been to Victoria , South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales , Western Australia and Australian Capital Territory. We've seen wild Kangaroos, Koalas and Seals, flown in a Helicopter in Geelong, drank wine in the Barossa, Kayaked along the Brisbane River,  sunbathed on countless Beaches, Surfed at Surfer's Paradise, seen a cricket match at Sydney Olympic Stadium and so much more! 

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Check out our articles about Australia:

http://www.travellingweasels.com/2014/04/australia.html

The day of the mass wildlife

Today we took our usual Newcastle walk to the beach, it normally takes 40 mins but today it took over an hour because of all the wildlife that we saw, and tried to take photos of.

It was pretty hot and we are still looking for the infamous lagoon, so we stopped off here:

behind T bay is a massive drop off and what may be the lagoon, it doesn't look very swimmable though and we weren't sure how to get down there. 

Tanbay was flicking himself with this water when I spotted this!! 

the long thin thing if you go down from the middle of the grass and across from that lower green plant on the right

It's pretty hard to see because my iPhone camera is pretty rubbish, at first we thought it was a sea snake, but then we decided it was probably a fresh water eel. 

Then we were walking through the woods when we saw what I initially thought was a tiny emu (ha). Tanbay said no it's a gobble gobble (ha) but he was correct and got to learn the word 'turkey'. 

between the two trees

the red bit in the photo. 

We also saw two massive lizards, who were camera shy. I got worried and said it was like the day after tomorrow where all the animals are unusually active, Tanbay said it was more like Jurassic park or king kong. 

Then we made it to the beach. 

Then the most ironic thing happened. Having seen numerous wild and venomous snakes, spiders, sting rays and jelly fish we have been lucky enough not to be bitten or stung by any of them. So what happened today? Tanbay got stung. By a European honey bee. So much for dangerous Australian wildlife.

Luckily Tanbay wasn't allergic, as we were over 30 minutes walk from the main road, and a helicopter rescue wouldn't have been affordable. It was also lucky that the sting could be soothed by the near by sea. Tanbay's lucky that I am a hypercondriac and have a medical app on my phone that told me to remove the stinger. I am lucky that Tanbay isn't a giant baby, and is in fact quite a macho German who didn't whine once and after five minutes said it had stopped hurting.

We made our way back anyway in case he started to have a delayed allergic reaction, and because I wasn't sure if I'd got the whole stinger out or not.

We also saw the same massive lizard on the way back:

he was really really black and shiny. 

We saw this on the way and I unsuccessfully tried to turn it into Tanni. 

My lovely mother sent me a postcard with the best stamp ever: 

We also got crust pizzas, they are so amazing. Tanbay said it was his number one moment in Australia when they arrived, ha. 

I had salmon and he had BLT!

Here's Kobe again 

Newcastle

Today we took the bus into Newcastle, it was extremely hot. 

We had fish and chips at Jeremiah Jones. It was the best fish from the fish shop I've ever had! It was so fresh and just melted in the mouth, it was really juicy and perfect. mmm 

We ate it next to the sea

calamari was there too 

Next we walked up the hill to Newcastle Cathedral which turned out to be a bit of a joke, it was only built in the early 1900s! How young is that

We then walked along to the beach and got very jealous of all the surfers 

But we still went in 

I really liked the rock pools

I thought I saw an octopus but it was a crab. 

Next we went to the ocean baths: 

We finished of the day with some great lager from Byron Bay 

More Bush Walking and Sea Swimming

We are still in Newcastle and we went to the same beach, along the route that we started walking along the other day. 

Here are two trees either burnt by a bush fire or burnt on purpose in an attempt to stop bush fires. I really like how black black they are so I stood between them

We arrived at a lookout where there used to be an aborigine tribe, they had access to the river and the sea so there was loads to eat.

Then we walked down the steepest stairs ever, the woods really reminded me of England, it was bizarre.

After 45 minutes we arrived at the beach

and saw a little lily lizard! 

Here's the end of the river again

We didn't swim because weasel's arm is still very weak and it was very rough!

Dave and Nath left for Europe on the 12th and we had a couple of days in with Kobe so he didn't feel too lonely: 

I made the best meat balls!!

I just read this through, the meat balls were made out of beef and were nothing to do with Kobe!!!


On Saturday we went out to the beach again, and this time we went a different route:

We saw these:

This route was a lot more confusing but we still made it

Aren't we cute