How many beds? #13 WW down under

We’re back home, the washing is done and we’ve no idea if it’s day or night.

Eleven weeks on the road and it’s gone in a flash!
We’ve so many people to thank and to list them all would make this such a very long post that you probably wouldn’t get to the bottom of it. Enough to say, you know who you are.
To all of those who’ve given us a bed for the night, put on the gigs and all of those who came out to see us, to everyone that made us meals, made us laugh and made us welcome, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Australia is a very, very big country; you have room to breathe there and we’ve sucked in some mighty big gulps and savoured every one.

The same also goes for New Zealand of course. We tend think of NZ and Oz as one and the same and that statement will have our Kiwi friends going nuts. I’m walking a tightrope here – I’m about to come a cropper.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Enough said.

Dave & Kip xx

Really interesting stats below.

We performed 56 sets containing at least 40 different songs across 25 different events.

Slept in 42 different beds.

Drove over 6450 miles in 5 different cars.

Did 9 flights (no lost guitars 👍)

Wildlife

Indian Mynah’s – lots of, considered a pest

Fantails, martins, swallows (pink breasted), goldfinches

Crickets, cockroaches, ants and termites

Pelicans

Swamp hens

Huntsman bastard spiders

Pretty wader birds with yellow beaks

Shags

Lizards

Sea eagle

Dolphins

Seals

Fox 

Possum (alive)

Wallabies

Roos

Rabbits

Tassie devil

Quoll (just one and it was dead)

Wombats (dead)

Possums (dead)

Chipmunk / squirrely thing

South East Asian Swamp Harriers

NZ falcons

Fairy wrens

Sulphur crested noisy bastards (cockatoos)

Rainbow lorakeets

Crimson breasted rosellas 

Magpies (C3PO birds – and yes we know it’s actually R2D2 that makes that noise, but we’d already named them when we realised)

Weka (several)

We apologise for our carbon footprint, we deserve to go to hell.