January 20

We have had a great week in Australia. Spent three days in Sydney staying in hotel overlooking Darling harbour so we explored a  lot of the local sites.  Weather was cloudy and rainy but only got soaked once as we ended our sightseeing tour on an double decker open top bus and we were on top.

Picked up our RV and managed to get out of Sydney - not the best place to start driving-- and we headed for the Blue Mountains and stayed two nights at a very nice campground in Katoomba.   This is a very busy camping season in Australia and it is the second last week of school holidays.  New school year starts on Jan 31. so we were very surprised we could get a powered site.  Took a great cable car ride at Katoomba, spectacular views.

Yesterday we travelled from Katoomba and are now on the ocean coast.  Camped at Kiama on the ocean but the campground is very very busy - lucky we got a site.  We are moving on to Bateman's Bay today - about a two hour drive on the Princes Highway heading towards Melbourne. Our hotest day -- must be over 30. 

Need to run as we have to check out.  Hope all is well. Look forward to seeing comments on the blog.  Jill is helping me post this given some technical difficulties at this end!!!!