Sea View Lodge Victoria

Had a very stop and start day today. Visited a few more sites along the road including the Arch, London Bridge, The Grotto - all stunning and then stopped in at the Whale nursery at Warrnambool which was good as there were several whales quite close to the shore although was a very windy (blowing) and rainy day so all ...

... to the later 1800's and they are just so beautiful. PORTLAND Friday 20th - A stunning day weather wise. Portland is Victoria's birthplace by the sea. There are over 200 historic homes and town buildings, many made out of bluestone, or basalt. Fishing is a great pastime here and at the main jetty we saw about 200 boat trailers, all the boats out fishing! Must be an anglers paradise. There is a very large aluminium smelter here, right in the heart of ...

... scenary, we saw a colony of seals, a wallaby, and many different birds. The seal colony here is an "outcast" colony, all the seals are either too young or too old to breed. Being a non-breeding colony there is no tension and no fights for territory, making this a rather peaceful seal community, all they do is feeding, playing, and sunbathing. Our encouter with the wallaby was also quite interesting, when we first approched it hopped away scared , but after a ...

The financial crisis was inevitable with the western worlds obsession of borrowing money to buy material objects. I've been there and done it, but managed to escape the evil talons of materialism and commercialism. All I need now are the contents of my backpack. Hopefully the silver lining to the crisis is that people realise they can still enjoy themselves without getting into massive debt to buy things they don't really need. It's fascinating listening to the ...

The Great Ocean Road is as nice as its ment to be - which is pretty damn nice! we left pretty early and took a leasurly drive along the coast - eventually ariving in Portland for the night. The drive its self along the GOR is stunning, amazing cliff edges of limestone, crazy arches of rock with the ocean beating against them, all sorts of kangaroos, wallabies etc etc (some alive, some dead on the ...

Mount Gambier to Portland via Port MacDonnell. On our way to Portland we stopped at Mount Schank. This is a Volcano that erupted thousands of years ago and now you can walk around the perimeter. It is pretty impressive. Then we went onto Port MacDonnell. The coast line is a bit like the great ocean road. We also stopped at Nelson along the way and had a look at the Glenelg River. Then ...

The last couple of days driving up the Great Ocean Road have been fab! Originally I wanted to drive myself but seeing as I don't have a car, it made more sense to do a 2 day/1 night tour. I went with a company called Ride Tours & it was brilliant. We got picked up very early on the Monday morning & then got the long 3hr drive out of the way & went right to the other end of the Great Ocean Road. That meant that the rest of the time was ...

So how does little Yve feel these days, well I'm in an enchanted forest and I can't make my way out of it. I guess I'll keep looking.. It's amazing how much all those fancy old timers didn't impress me at all.. even though that one had the prettiest head figure.

... turn the port from bright to pink to dark. During the day I looked out at all the cattle and couldn't help but think how happy they must be to live here. Just beautiful pasture after beautiful pasture with perfect looking cottages or manses nearby all overlooking turquoise ocean waters. We also passed by miles and miles of timber farming. It's also cold! Ahhh! After melting in the north and around Ayers Rock I can't believe that I have to ...

Hello everyone, Beck and I had our last day in SA today and are now in Portland Victoria. Yesterday we left Adelaide at 1.30pm. We kind of planned to leave a little earlier then that. It was very sad to say goodbye to everyone. We are going to miss you guys so much. The first couple of hours of driving were pretty uneventful, Beck ...