Oscars Waterfront Boutique Hotel Port Fairy

... and koalas and all that jazz. One of the truisms of travelling, I have found, is that when someone who lives in the area that you are travelling through recommends something, this immediately overrides any plans you yourself had for your day and becomes your fixation, even obsession, until you have tracked down whatever obscure and out-of-the-way gem they have mentioned, because, you tell yourself repeatedly, as you drive around the same block ...

... fifty odd pictures taken of them now. We then see the rest of this rugged coastline, from Loch Ard Gorge, the scene of a ship wreck in 1878 where there were only two survivors, to London Bridge. London Bridge has indeed fallen down, it is now no longer a bridge as more of a gap! We stop for the night in Port Fairy, a sea side town set on the Moyne River. We stay in the YHA hostel, which will become our hostel chain of choice. Another day on the road and we officially ...

... beer and just generally having an awesome time. I know that I will miss everyone once I am back on the road again. I have had to do some dull things like tax returns and expensive car services but all in all it has been fantastic! Now I'm all kitted up with the gear that I need for the next leg of the trip including a brand new tent, cooker etc and are very excited about the coming weeks (and ...

... to enjoy a quiet Kilkenny. He found a friend as he always does, a fello who knew his career back to his playing days - bloody ridiculous really. He would have been happy to sit there for the afternoon (ahem morning) but Max was in rare whinging form and insisted we do something that interested the kids not hang out in the pub. So we dragged the kids around the heritage trail in the car and headed off the Warnambool to get supplies etc. Finally found ...

... and a bunch of other cool stuff showing Victoria/Melb as it was back in the day. Also, we finally booked our greyhound ticket, which will take us right up to Cairns. So that is one thing sorted anyways! I've heard so-so things about the OzExperience, so we decided against it. Well.. that is it in a nutshell! I know I've been really bad updating, so hopefully now that we'll be doing more exciting things, I'll be able to update with more interesting stories more often!! X

... and needless to say lots of photos were taken so we could look back on them in years to come. After the Twelve Apostles there wasn´t much else to stop and see, but the roads were beginning to have more and more hairpin bends accompanied by the whoops coming from Maud as she took another corner at full speed. I even managed to prise the steering wheel out of Maud´s hands and have a go of some real driving in a better performing car than the chugging ...

Today's WOW has got to be driving the Great Ocean Road. Left the great hospitality of Norma and John's Banksia Park Estate and motored around West Bay and down the Mornington Peninsula to the 45 min Sorrento - Queenscliff ferry. Then it was start the road - past surfing towns initially including Torquay, surfing Capital of Australia, then the sea side hills of Otway National Park, covered with trees and intersected by creeks ...

... br> <br><br> <br><br>The road also occassionally banked inland, taking us through some lovely forests and national parks.<br> <br>We stopped at one to take a boardwalk trail down through the ...

... s nest with 2 or so baby fledglings. Saw either mom or dad eagle swoop down grab a fish and head back to the nest. Feel like we're in a National Geographic episode sometimes. We were looking so hard to spot some kangaroo's since we hadn't seen even one of them. Never saw any walking through the bush, returned to the parking lot to see a small family of them just hanging out near the toilets! Landed in another little ocean town called Port ...

We arrived here intending to get our heads down for the night and to get an early start the next day on our drive along the Great Ocean road. The beauty about not having an agenda is that when you come across a place you really like you can just stop there for a while, and we did. We were lucky enough to ...