We made it to Australia!
We then had some disagreements with the Sydney Airport, our car rental company, the lack of maps out of the Sydney Airport and the highways. So we decided to get out of the city as fast as we could and drove south to a city called Nowra.
We found a nice campground in the national park on Jarvis Bay and though the rain threatened to float our tent away a couple of nights, cancelled the SCUBA dive we set up and made us spent a bit more time in the small spaces that are our tent and car, we were able to enjoy the area pretty well. We spent two days in the nations capital, Canberra, trying to stay dry and find ways to amuse ourselves, realizing we had spent quite a bit of time just the three of us recently.
We've discovered a food item called the 'Bee sting' which is a delicious pastry filled with an incredible cream that we've quickly become addicted to. Taken in a couple of movies in Canberra when the rain threatened to overwhelm us (including a cute little Aussie film called I Love You Too). Toured the National Art Gallery with a funny little tour guide named Rachel. Visited the house of parliament where we were able to sit in and watch the 'question hour' where politicians are allowed to laugh and heckle at each other while they ask and answer questions about each others practices and politics, that was overwhelmingly amusing!
We're currently at our first WWOOF hosts outside a town whose name I cannot spell (Queanbeyan?). They have cows and a gynsing farm and are a really fun family. We've spent today, our first day, with their son Andrew walloping tussocks out of the pasture, putting together fence posts, and washing out their meat trailer (it was muddy not bloody or anything).
Australia was a little bit hard for us to love at first but the sun has come out again and life seems to be looking up. We're looking forward to our next three months on this island continent.
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