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Despite the fact I've been unemployed since the end of September I still haven't had time to write up the Great Ocean Road thing that I did with a bloke called Kliff from Burnley that I met in a hostel in Melbourne. There are words for people as lazy as me but some of them aren't printable in a blog that your Grandparents might possibly read.

The Great Ocean Road Day 1

The day didn't start exactly as planned as the new van of one of the families from Gippsland was found to have a plumbing problem at the last minute and a part was on its way from Melbourne hopefully by post on Monday. Well it arrived ok, but that meant that they got a late start and as there were 2 vans starting from Melbourne it was decided that …

Great Ocean Road 2a

Got up and got ready, checked out of the hostel and headed on our way out of Apollo Bay. After a quick visit to the travel info centre, we realized we were going to have a long day if we wanted to get to Grampians by day break, so we needed to get a move on (also found out that much of Grampians was closed due to some flooding which washed out the …

Rainforests and more Rain

After leaving the coast behind for a while, we ventured in land. We visited the Otway Fly, which is a walkway over the temperate rainforest (bit like the one on 'I'm a Celebrity, get me out of here').The highest point was 120m above the forest floor. It was a great afternoon, just strolling amongst the canopy, looking at the trees, lichen, birds …

On the Great Ocean Road

The next morning we picked up our hire car and drove straight out of Melbourne, avoiding the trams and any one way streets the best we could. We drove along the Great Ocean Road, which was really beautiful until we got to our stop for the night at Apollo Bay. This was a little town right on the seafront with a lovely beach. After a little walk …

The Jones Gone Wild(er)

The Jones' Gone Wild(er)

Living in the outdoors usually brings a few visitors right to our doorstep. We’ve been bush camping and we’ve seen some of the most dramatic Australian coastline you can imagine, we cook in camp ovens and drink Billy Tea, but nothing has made me feel quite so Australian as sighting the koalas at Great …

Cute Clinging Koalas and Crazy King Parrots

We spent two days driving along the Great Ocean Road and it really was great! The sea views were stunning and the camp site we stayed at was just brilliant. There were wild Koalas living in the trees all around the camp site and one had a very cute baby clinging to its back.

We also found a way to talk to the Koalas and get them to look …

Victoria update

Hi all Well this is likely to be our last blog from Oz! I'm writing from Apollo Bay, on the Great Ocean Road. We arrived here earlier today and found somewhere to stay. It is a lovely little hotel and our room overlooks the ocean which is a treat for our last night. We've been out for lunch and will probably head for a nap shortly! We travelled …

Return to the Great Ocean Road

On arrival into Melbourne and recept of our hire car the temperature guage for outside was reading 42 degrees and I wasn't going to argue, being outside the car made me drip with sweat but as I had been telling everyone I can deal with dry heat... We drove south past Geelong and Torquay to Anglesea where we had our first Kodak moment, a rather nice …

Great Ocean Road

vom 14.-16. Januar sind wir auf der Great Ocean Road unterwegs. Mario, Beat (genannt Bill) und ich. Bill haben wir auf der Farm kennengelernt. Wir Fahren über Land nach Lorne, da das Wetter nicht so gut ist. Der Wetterbericht hat aber Sonnenschein versprochen für die folgenden 2 Tage, und so starten wir unseren Tripp über die Great Ocean Road von …