Sovereign Park Motor Inn Ballarat

... directly below the place we were at on the tour, but having limited success. We, however, had great success gold panning in the river and found several small pieces of gold! Don’t get too excited though as you practically need a microscope to see them - We won’t be giving up our day jobs just yet. Some people have found huge nuggets of gold in the Ballarat region over the last decade or so so ...

... Gold zu finden... leider vergeblich! :-( Die meiste Zeit sind wir aber einfach nur durch das Städtchen geschlendert und haben einfach alles aufgenommen. Es war wirklich interessant so einiges über diese Zeit zu erfahren. Schliesslich war dies die Zeit, die diese Stadt und Umgebung geprägt hat und die Stadt zu dem gemacht hat, was es heute ist. Ich persönlich fand es besonders interessant, da wir nie wirklich viel mit dem Goldrausch zu tun hatten oder ...

... view of the Panamint Valley. There were two things I learned on this trip. One is that all Bureau of Land Management lands are not necessarily open to the public and the second was that certain shotgun ammunition should not be used in a dry, windy area. Let me just say this, be very careful in Southern California with fire. It is incredible how quickly things can get out of hand.

... The art took me back to my feeling of an artist. For the images were something I would myself paint. The first thing I said to the owner. "I love the art work." He said "Thank you they are my sons, he has sold a few but he still has to work to get a steady flow of income." I in return replayed. "I'm an artist myself and I know what that feels like." So I ordered a latte, a ricotta and pumpkin rotti wrap and sat down outside on the patio. There were allot of ...

... for lunch. A small restaurant located in a little village .I tryed for the first time "Lime and Bitters" ahhhhhh so refreahing something we should introduce to canada. We had sandwich fingers .. very gourmet ... im being seroius. A big salad, meat pies(chicken and beef), amazing fries, a huge sundae for dessert (Cream and ice cream taste soooo delictable together and very addicting), and bread and butter icecream pie. Okay so then we went to ...

... I only have one picture, since it was getting dark. So, here we are sitting on a blanket in these lovely surroundings, a kokaburra (sp?) is laughing in the background and big bats are swooping through the air with occasional cackling. Fantastic. Abends sind Olaf und ich dann zum Mondlicht Kino im Botanischen Garten gegangen. Der Botanische Garten ist wunderschön. Habe leider nur ein Bild, da es zu dunkel wurde. Also, saßen wir in dieser ...

... more drinks. Had another couple of days at rosebud and a afternoon of fishing in the bay and catching a feed of fish. Now we are back a warrnadyte for abit to get ourselves set up for Tassie. My only worry is a specialist appointment at a specialist on tuesday to see what is happening with my hip as i have a torn ligiament so i am hoping to get it fixed before tassie so i can get back to some walking as i know there is plenty of that to do over in tassie.

... of the weekend is Luna Park on Saturday and Picnic in the park Sunday. I have some friendlies arriving on Tuesday morning, and now because of my current unemployed status I will be able to spend all the time in the world with them...Haha (does anyone know how long you have to be in oz before you get the unemployment benefit?Oh yea and how much do subway pay?) Hope you all have a fantastic Christmas day and bring on Boxing Day sales.. Miss You and Love Ya Lil and Ren (mainly renee)

Only 2 weeks to go. So many things to think about, plan and remember to do. Money, phones, packing. What will the weather be like, what clothes will we need? What places do we want to see at each point in the journey? What arrangements do we still need for those left behind. It is starting to feel a little manic.

... us and us staring at it before it bounded past us into the bush! We chuckled to ourselves and wished we'd had the camcorder primed and ready. The art work, which consisted of white stickmen-like figures, was caged in for protection. To be honest, it didn't look much, but we had to remember that this was up to 20,000 years old and was some of the first art to ever be produced. When we thought of that, it was pretty amazing. Back to roads made of tarmac, we were excited to see ...