I can drive on the left hand side of the road!!

It has been a long time since I've posted a message. Hope I can recall all the events which happened the past few days. Today is Friday the 15th of July. On Tuesday Rob, the girls and I said our goodbyes. Well acutally, Rob and I drove to Brissy, the girls left for Coffs Harbour. This time it was tears by Sarah. Rob and I drove via The Gold Coast, Surfer's Paradise to Brissy. Surfer's Paradise is nothing but a big, big tourist place w/ sky scrapers and night clubs. We didn't think it was worth visiting it. In Brissy it started raining and we got hopelessly lost, mainly because I kept holding the map upside down. Finally we got to our acco. The Prince Consort Backpackers in the "Valley" a part of town, which also holds Chinatown. We shared a room w/ two old Russian Ladies (how on earth did they get there??). Woke up rather early, Rob urged me out of bed: "Wake up, new day, new city to discover".... grrrr.. but I am glad he did wake me up. We wondered around town for about 4 hrs. Visited the Botanic Gardens, little cruise on the River w/ a river cat (fast ferry). Nice brekky (breakfast) along the riverside. The day was beautiful. Sunny, warm, very charming. The city itself is not very exciting. Very "big city" like. High buildings, traffic, etc. We came back to the backpackers (hostel) and shared a washing machine. I had my afternoon nap from 3 till 5 and then we went rock climbing!! We had a 45min. walk to Kangaroo Point, the cliffs in the city along the river. We had to cross Story Bridge which offered a great view over the river and the city itself. The climbing was fantastic. I've never done climbing in the wild, so this was a first. And the cool thing about it, was that is was a night, so the cliffs were alluminated. Really awesome. Rob and I had a hoot! After climbing we were tired and hungry and had some great chinese dinner in Chinatown. The next day I was being picked up by Dean from Cairns, who I will be on a road trip with for the coming 4 days. Rob and I said our goodbyes and I left. We drove from Brissy to Gladstone in one day. Dean lets me drive all the time which is extremely cool. I love driving in this country. The landscape is amazing. One minute it's hilly and lush and green, the next it's dry and flat. We wanted to visit Fraser Island and spend the night camping there, but it was $145 to get the car on the ferry, so that was a bit too much. On to Gladstone where we arrived at 6 PM. We found a campsite which rented out cabins and we had a nice little caravan. I took the bed, Dean took the couch, in case you're wondering. So, here I am in Rockhamton now. 1000 km away from Cairns, we will drive today and tomorrow and Sunday. Stopping along the way to do some sight seeing and i HAVE to take a dip in the Pacific! Maybe even do some snorkeling. It's 10.30AM and already quite hot. Strange to go from cold to very hot. It's winter here and it's about 25degrees c. Very nice. So next stop is Mackay, about 300km up north where the WhitSunday Islands are and where we'll spend the night camping. Dean turned out to be very very nice (met him on the internet), he's a landscaper, has 3 kids and we get along great. So, mummy, stop worrying! I have updated the pictures from the farm and Brissy, so you might want to check out those enteries again.
Love you all.. am a bit homesick, but really this place is so very amazing... I fell in love and just KNOW I will go back some day.
Cheers!