Comfort Inn Lorneview Apartments

... in the evening after dinner before hitting the hay pretty early. Day 2 - Robe to Port Fairy We set off nice and early for day 2 of our travels. We first of all we headed to Naracoorte to visit the caves which are a World Heritage site and of huge palaentological significance, as they have fossils of giant marsupials, the predecessors of their current fauna. So we were all excited and we'd timed it to arrive just before the morning tour, and when we arrived ...

... the idea of lunch here, and instead drove to Apollo Bay to buy fish and chips. I then drove along the road to Lorne, which is the bit of the Great Ocean Road which is actually right on the ocean. Spectacular view again, but I was tired, and following a really slow and annoying car, so I didn't notice as much as I might otherwise have done.

In the evening I met another fellow traveler at the campsite. This one, however, was far less interesting, as he was the ...

... met Fin and Josh. They had found a sick blue penguin on the beach and Clare was helping them to locate a rescue centre for it. That sorted we lit a Campfire as this was one of the few places that allowed it and exchanges stories and advice. Josh had traveled around Oz in a Toyota Hi Ace with his wife a few years earlier. Thursday 30 th October On the way to clean his teeth Alex had to stop to let a Koala cross ...

... fish so they were taken to provide us with a fish starter and very tasty they were. After a couple of cold ones we turned in for a good nights sleep only to be still awake until 3am due to pesky revelers! Sunday 26 th October Bleary eyed Alex went for an early morning fish and managed another tiny Australian salmon this one was lucky enough to be released. Ed treated us ...

... tool used only by tribes who hunted ducks...not a toy. The ones that were actually used for duck hunting were HUGE. If the boomerang didn't kill the duck, it would come back to you, basically giving you a second chance. When it comes back, you get out of the way, otherwise, you're dinner. I have so much more respect for these people and their customs, their history, as I've learned more about it. I ...

We stayed at Anne's boyfriend's friend's wife's parents' house in Lorne and enjoyed their amazing food and hospitality. Hired softies and had fun in the waves, toured the Great Ocean Road and did some shopping. Australia is very much like NZ and the UK - but the sun really burns here! Simon forgot to put sun tan lotion on and now has a peeling nose. Funny that - you have a big population of whites on an island ...

... is where Point Break was filmed. intersting place names along the way included Anglesea, Torquay and Peterborough - Theiving scum bags!!!!! (have also just visited a place called Rhyll - alot cleaner than home we must say!!!!) This is also where our festivities began!

... colours of the cliff walls, imaginatively named the Lace Curtains for their coloured vertical stripes, and then the astounding formation known as the Razorback, with its hard niggly bits protruding in polka-dot ...

... who were nestled sniper-like on a distant hill. Then came a hefty bout of questioning and negotiating over actions, reasons and the associated impending penalties. I walked away with two tickets, a fine totalling over $400 and a huge lungful of relief at the fact that my driving licence lay snugly zipped in my jacket pocket as I rode away (by law they should have kept it.) Apparently I was just an ...

... eat it!!! after bet chabbad we came back to the house and found that Guy had found an old friend visiting melbourne for the day, and he brought him over for a while. Saturday nite became a huge adventure after some of the guys in the house invited me to a rave, ok, i'll call it a "trance music festival", 3 hours outside of melbourne in the forrest. with our sketchy directions, 8 of us piled into a van, following another van of 8 or so, and we spent more than 3 ...