We have another package coming from the motherland (England) it’s our shiny new Orlieb panniers.  We used these on our last tour of Europe and they were faultless & always kept our gear 100% dry even in the heaviest downpours Europe had to offer.  There seems to be a strange trend in Australia at the moment where all the retailers want to charge double the price of the UK – bizzar but true!  We are going to be using 4 of the largest size panniers and at 40 liters per pair of storage it should hopefully give us enough room for all our gear – we just need to figure out where we are going to put the girls clothes, food and nappies…….