Driving and more driving...

We have driven over 3000 ish' km now and are continuing on for another 1700 ish'.  We have driven through alot of things as we are now realizing alot of Australia is much the same as you drive along.  We have driven so much we decided to stay in Sydney for 4 days, well 1 was just arriving late and sleeping.  We figured we would find lots to do there, but it was just another huge city, and the traffic was crazy.  Well I blame the horrible drivers and small roads but...

We saw the Sydney Opera house, the Harbor Bridge, Biron Beach and checked out some cute areas.  The shopping looked amazing but Australia is already costing us enough just to eat and sleep.  We have left Sydney a couple days ago and have made our way to Brisbane with a short stop out to the Blue Mountains just West of Sydney.  We stopped a couple times in some cute small towns for the night then made our way to Byron Bay. It's a crazy backpacker town, lots of people and not really our style though we have heard how poplular it is, after lunch we move on to the Gold Coast.

As we hit the Gold Coast area we realize once again, it is a huge tourist area and drive it anyways to only conclude we are correct on that assumption.  It is busy and we decide we can make it to Brisbane or just past Brisbane.  We have stopped outside of Brisbane in a tiny town, which had 3 motels and 3 places to eat.  Surprisingly the motel is the nicest so far for the same price as many other crappy places we stayed and the 1 sit down restaruant was the best meal we have had in Australia by far.  So sometimes things can still surprise us!

We will be heading out to Steve Irwin's Australian Zoo tomorrow and keep trucking up to Cairns.  It's alot of driving but we will make it....