Road trip and now a Change of Plans

We had a blast on our road trip down to Melbourne.  The weather was pretty gloomy on our way down.  We ended up camping in the rain the first night but had some great weather after that.  We finally saw some kangaroos on our last day of the trip. You can see more pictures on my flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56993065@N03/

Tuesday we packed up shop at Lucas' aunt's house getting ready for our bussing adventure up North.  Wednesday I lugged everything into the city and met up with yet another Santa Cruzan, Leah, for a beer at the Opera house.  When I met up with Lucas and Skyler they had bad news... our bus to Byron Bay was cancelled.  For those of you who do not keep up with the news, Northern NSW and Queensland are experience biblical floods.  Yesterday on the news I saw a flash flood torrent tossing trucks and SUVs like bouncing twigs down a creek.  I'm a bit dissapointed we won't get to see the great barrier reef or the whitsunday islands or any of the tropical rain forest, but were not going to let it slow us down.

Our bus pass was supposed to be valid to go all the way up to Cairns and we could hop on and hop off at any of the stops along the way.  Since our mini traveller pass is now the most expensive one-way bus ticket to Coff's Harbour, we are canceling our bus ticket and are heading to New Zealand early.  We leave for Auckland tomorrow and will hopefully have better weather over there.

So, farewell Australia.  

If you are craving more pictures and stories check out Lucas' and Skyler's blog and flickr:

Lucas Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/57181626@N08/

Skyler's Blog:

http://theadventuresofskyler.blogspot.com/