the blue mountains

Whilst in Sydney we did a day trip up to the Blue Mountains, I thought they deserved a blog post for themselves. Ever since Claire moved over to Australia I have been pretty amazed by how gorgeous these mountains look, her instagrams and blog posts have had me swooning. So I was so glad we managed to get up there, and on a super gorgeous day too. Those mountains are bloody spectacular, and they're actually blue! It is quite breathtakingly beautiful, I couldn't get enough. The light and the colours were amazing, it smelt pretty great too and I of course took a ridiculous amount of photos. Here are some of my faves...

Aaaand that's the end of the Australia photos... Maybe I'll get back to blogging about London sometime soon!

Photos - mixture of lumix DLSR and iPhone 5, some edited with vsco cam.  

noosa

After a nice relaxing few days in Byron Bay, we drove North up the coast to Queensland. I drove, in an automatic, weird, through The Gold Coast, crazy, and then past some gorgeous coast line into The Sunshine Coast. It was pretty fun really, and we ended up in Noosa with high hopes of seeing koalas. Noosa was like two different worlds in one place; some of the shops and restaurants on Hastings Street were way too fancy for our shorts and flip-flops vibe, but very lovely all the same, and let's face it, who doesn't want to try salted caramel popcorn ice-cream made by the magic of liquid nitrogen?! And then 1K down the beach in Noosa National Park we were surrounded by dense forest, deserted beaches, turquoise sea, white sand and crazy wildlife. I did not get along with the wild turkeys. It was gorgeous though, we walked for miles and just kept stumbling upon the most incredible beaches. I loved it, it's a gorgeous bit of coastline, go go go if you get the chance!

Photos - the camera gods were against me in Noosa and something went crazy with my camera, so most of these are iPhone 5 + vsco cam.  

byron bay

Byron Bay was the first stop in Oz. It was exactly as I'd imagined it, beautiful beaches, loads of surfers and a very chilled out town. A pretty good way to start the holiday, especially after the 30 hour journey! It was laid back, calm and beautiful. The sand squeaked and the sunsets were spectacular. A highlight has to be Tallow Beach which was a short walk through the bush from where we staying - a huge, completely deserted white sand beach. We explored it at sunset and it was stunning. 

+ Claire shared some of her pics of Byron Bay and Tallow Beach here + here. 
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Photos - mixture of lumix DLSR and iPhone 5 + vsco cam.

australia

Well I'm back from Australia and had a bit more of a blogging break than originally intended, thanks to some serious jetlag, a good friends birthday + some awesome celebrations. Oh and there's also the fact that I took seven million photos and still have a bit of sorting out to do! I'll be back soon with plenty of photos of my favourite Australia days. For now though, here is a mash up of some of my favourite iPhone snaps from the holiday. Look at those blue skies, sigh, take me back already....! 

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+ A few more snaps of Oz on my vsco grid.