Today, Jan 2,2014. I hope everyone had a happy new year. Today was the start to a fantastic day! Woke up and went for a fantastic run thorough the most beautiful gardens across from our hotel, iguanas everywhere! Ran into town and had a delicious smoothie from a nice man who has had his smoothie place for 14 years. Then decided against a big breakfast that would have cost us $20 each, opted for "Pie Face " again, which cost us $20 total, Aussies are big on lattes, cappachinos,  mochas.  I just wanted a regular coffee, which is called a long black. But in the stores there is no ground coffee or coffee beans just Nescafé instant coffee. Good thing I brought some Starbucks instant coffee from home which I think is better than Nescafé.

Picked up our camper van and we were on the road by 11:00, with me navigating (scary) and with Tom trying to drive on the opposite side of the road (scarier). The landscape is fairly dry and all we've seen so far are cows and horses, Tom said he saw some road kill, wallybys or kangaroos. I think they are like our deer, hiding in amongst the trees. We got to our campground, it must be 35 degrees! Went for a swim in the pool, then went for a walk to the ocean, green parakeets in the eucalyptus trees, came back, had a beer, oh and by the way, everyone drinks Corona here! Played Rummykub, 1 for Wendy! Had a quick supper and watched the huge flying foxes (bats) come out at dusk. Washed the dishes and got into bed! Pretty early for me, 9:00. 

Hope everyone is well, xoxoxo.

January 1st, 2014. Brought in the new year by having a really great sleep in the Watermark Hotel. Woke up about 7, got dressed and had a lovely walk through the gardens across the road from the hotel. Walked down to where al the restaurants nod shops are and had breakfast at a place called "Pie Face". It was delicious, just walked around by the water and had a smoothie as we watched all the people. Came back to the hotel and got ahold of Savannah Vine, she is coming to the hotel and we will go have lunch. It is now 11:38. Beautiful sunny day. Had a great lunch downtown, got caught up on our lives, Walked back to our hotel, didn't get to meet Simon, off she went. It was so great to se her. A wee bit tired so We had a nap then went back downtown, looked at some of the stores, cool stud, I wanted to buy but thought I could wait. Had a snack at a Mexican restaurant then decided on supper at the "Pig'n Whistle". On some of the menus there was something called "bugs", we knew it was some kind of seafood so Tom tried some, they are big prawns! They were pretty good, it was the special at the restaurant and the waitress did not say how much they were, we'll they were a bit too much!!! Ended the night with a lovely walk back to our hotel, perfect temperature and watched the huge bats fly around in the park, geez they were big! Savannah told me their name, cannot remember now, good night everyone.