Coffs Harbour: Day Fifty-One (9 December)

We had to get up at 5 o'clock this morning to catch the train from Brisbane to Coffs Harbour. The journey took six hours but it was worth it because the countryside on the way is very pretty.

Once we crossed the border from Queensland to New South Wales we had to change our watches: Queensland does not have daylight saving time and is always ten hours ahead of the U.K. Because it was summertime in New South Wales we were now eleven hours ahead.

The friends we were staying with (they live half the year in Tunbridge Wells and half the year in Australia) met us and took us for a nice lunch.

This is the view from the house they rent, complete with wild kangaroos in the garden :-)

Barnaby