I thought readers of this blog may have seen enough photos of fabulous beaches this week, so here’s another side of Aus for you! To get to the Botanic Gardens, I was told ‘take a right at the shark’ (OK, that worked!) and my new mate Chris (6 feet 10 at least I reckon) thought his ‘can’t show my face, darl, I’m wanted’ joke was really funny! I took a walk along one of the longest piers in Australia, currently being painted with a tiny little roller by Chris (there are a lot of blokes called Chris here!) – takes three weeks and then they start again!