The end is near

Well, it is our final night in the wild land of Australia and this will be our last blog entry. We survived the rest of our road trip in the spaceship and are now safely back in Brisbane. When we brought our spaceship van back to star command, we noticed that we had driven a total of 4,500 kilometers, which is roughly 2800 miles. We were fortunate not to have any accidents or hit any kangaroos while driving on the left side of the road. We are so used to driving on the left side of the road now, that it may be an adjustment to drive in the states again.

For those who have been wai

ting in suspense on what the answer is to question about Nate's eye in the last blog, watch this video. You can also get a little feel of that Australian alarm clock that we had previously mentioned. On our way back to Brissie we saw a sign off of the highway that sh

owed these good looking dolphins. The sign stated "Hand feed Dolphins for free at Tin Can Bay." We still had almost two days left of our drive so we did a little jog off course to Tin Can Bay. It was just about sun down when we pulled into town and the feeding wasn't until 8 am... so we just parked the van on the road and crashed out till morning. Thinking we were going to go feed some good looking dolphins, we were a li

ttle surprised at what we got to feed. If anyone is familiar with Brian Regan and his bit about Flipper and having a bad dolphin named Zipper...

I think we met him. We come walking down to the water front and here is this pail grey dolphin with scars all over it. Chunks had been bitten out of it dorsal fin and nearly one whole side of his tail had been cut off. Probably an accident from when he was out moving safety buoy's. The picture really doesn't do it justice. It looked more like a wood carving that had come to life.

Crikey's, we even took a drive down Steve Irwin Way and got a snap shot with the crocodile hunter himself out from of his zoo.
Since back in Brisbane, we were able to hook up with local YSA members here and made some pretty awesome gourmet pizzas. We think it's just because they really like out American accents though. Just for kicks, we cruised around downtown one last time on the long boards and did some last minute gift shopping. Last night we landded a sweet invite for today. Our day was spent relaxing at the Gold Coast and Surfers Paradise.

Our last day in beautiful Australia was spent sitting on the beach and body surfing in the waves. Nate wanted to steal some sand from the surfers paradise beach but we didn't have a container on hand... so he filled his kite bag with sand till we got back to town. The weather this whole trip has been absolutely perfect. We must have picked the best 5 weeks of the entire year to come over. You couldn't have asked for anything better. Although every thing is a bit more expensive in Australia, the people have been great. Everyone is super helpful and quick to help you with directions or point you in the direction of fun stuff to do. Normally when a trip comes to an end it feels as if it has flown past. Honestly, it feels as if we have been here for a lot longer than 5 weeks. We have done tons, seen a lot but are ready to come back home. Thanks to everyone for following our blog. We literally have a few thousand pictures so we'll be posting more on facebook in the weeks to come. Also, after nearly 7 weeks of growing the beards, just like that they are gone. We didn't want people to think that we were complete bums so off they came for the last two days.

So a few people that have followed this didn't get shout outs. So, to be fare, we will go back through our photos and find some shout out pictures for a few people.

First up is Jerad... here's what a Sheila looks like.

Next is Heather.... This is a video shout out, a rare animal in Australia.

For those of you that we missed, G'day from Down Under!