We headed off from Noosa and stopped to buy some fuel for the car. Prices for fuel are all over the place here. One day it is AUS$ 1.43 and a few days later AUS$ 1.27 (about Seventy pence per litre) and there is a big uproar in the press about the petrol companies increasing the prices when people want to travel over Easter.
We arrived at Brisbane, back to square one, and headed South alongside Surfers Paradise which is now a bit like Miami and/or Spanish high rise apartment blocks for miles on end. We are pleased we decided to stay in Noosa as it is a more salubrious place by far.
We arrived at the outskirts of Coffs Harbour after being chased down the Motorway by the huge Road Trains, they are bigger on other routes but these were big enough. On one I counted 36 tyres and they seem to love sitting three yards from the back of the car as you are travelling at 100 Kmh whilst they wait for several kilometres from the passing zones to appear. We did some food shopping and arrived at the Sacred Mountain Retreat which is miles from nowhere and sits on top of a small mountain with great views.
It was here that we discovered that the time had changed by one hour and upon investigation understood that Queensland refuses to follow all the other Australian States by changing it’s clock twice a year. Good on them.
We have just heard on the news that the new Australian Prime Minister is making his first overseas trip to Washington, London and Europe. Somehow I thought that UK was part of Europe. Actually I thought that UK had become part of the Eastern Bloc countries with so many Polish, Albanians etc living in the country.
NB Photos to be added when we have better (faster) internet connection. The average here in Oz appears to be 512K or if you are very very luck 2k
