After another week standing in qeues at goverment offices, we eventually ended up with 2 Queensland drivers licenses and a Medicard.

Lets call the drivers license from now on 'the Gold Card', as it looks to be opening all doors. Without it you can't: book a restaurant, open a tab in a bar, buy booze, get money from your bank account, sign up for Medicare, get car insurance, register a car. Oh yes, and of course you need it to drive your car too. Surely, it makes a cup of tea in the morning as well but we haven't challenged it do so yet (we're coffee drinkers).

Anyway, we are now legally identifyable and finally real Queenslanders.

Time for the next step: buying an RV. After several car yards we changed plans. A tip sets us of to the Queensland Department of Transport where they auction (ex-gov) vehicles. We finally ended up with a ... police car. Signs and horns removed of course.

Well, at least no outstanding fines on that one then!

This beauty will take us to Bundaberg next. The plan has changed slightly (again), we need to go North first and then we'll follow the ducks South.

Brisbane was great by the way. The views from the river are magnificent and on the southbank there is an artificial beach. Very busy on the weekends. Our standard weekend procedure was sitting on the porch of the pub, watching the people go by, downing a nice bottle (or two) of chilled white.