Southern Grampians Cottages Dunkeld

... next point we spotted some really cool wildlife, an echidna by the roadside and a black wallaby that hopped away as soon as we drove past. Next we stopped off for sandwiches and the Koreans played a dare game, which was hilarious, culminating in Smth and Lisa having to eat haf a lemon each!! We finally made it to the official start of the Great Ocean Road, we all got out and had some pictures taken with the hagrid sign, which looked a state considering its ...

... Toronto. We drove to The Grampians Mountian ranges in NW Victoria and did a 11km hike. It only took a couple of hours but the scenery was beautiful. Unfortunately the pictures don't quite capture the true beauty of the scene, but they're still pretty good. This coming up weekend I'm going to drive the Great Ocean Road which is one of the most beautiful coastal drives in the world. I will post pictures of that as well. Lots of Love and Happy St. Patty's Day! Beth

... within and between both parties at hand - those guiding and those who are guided. A formula, an equation, a theory isn't being memorized, rather, a Socratian understanding is attained that transcends and blends the modern divisions between a person's self and that which the person studies. It amazed me to observe, within others as well as myself, that when these barriers were superseded, other divisions began to ...

... with free bikes from our hostel) - did I mention that the Grampians are a very mountainous terrain? Well, we saw no other cyclists in 4 days, but succeeded to fight our way up on never-ending mountain roads. Tour de Grampians! The only advantage was that the end was a looooong downhill ride, including a side trip (walk) on a closed track (signs like "closed" and "warning" have always been too appealing to me) which was beautiful and hadn't been ...

... we spent the next day on a 'scenic drive' around the vocanoes in thick mist and torrential rain. As there was no view and the Tongarero crossing was closed (Matt was keen to do this strenuous 8 hour walk - I was so disapointed to find it closed!) we went straight up to the caves at Waitomo. We stayed in another nice site there and did a very nice forest and cave walk in the evening. We visited the caves in the morning - this was a better collection of glowworms than we had seen at Te ...

Sleeping in the car wasn't as bad as I had expected and managed to sleep right through until 11am. Not really what I had wanted as it was going to be a long day with a lot to see. It was midday by the time we had finished breakfast and packed up so we were behind schedule. After driving yesterday I had secured myself a passenger seat and seeing as the views are supposed to be spectacular it was probably for the best as I'd likely crash admiring the views. There were a ...

Our destination the Great Ocean Road, had a small detour to check the Australian Alps through the pretty town of Bright and some beautiful views from the top of Mount Buffalo. We ended up staying the night in Australia's glider capital, Benalla. An early morning start, had us in Melbourne before lunch. Unfortunately, despite a number of attempts, we did not have a city map when we found ourselves in the middle of this city of 3 1/2 million. I called the hotel we ...

... we took turns! We stopped at Otway National Park for some koala spotting. It was fun and we named all the ones we spotted - we had Kenny, Kerry & Kelvin, Kurt, Kevin and Kliff (the don and the most inquisitive one we have found - SH). We found more wildlife on a golf course - it was dusk and there were about 50 wallabys on the green at the 9th hole. Our first glimpse of them in the wild! (SH - anybody who can clarify the rules if you hit a roo, please drop me an e-mail ...

... completed the whole of the Great Ocean Road as we spotted a sign for a whale nursery at Logan's Beach whilst on our way to Warrnambool and intrigued turned off to investigate. As we parked up we didn't think we'd be in luck of spotting whales as the car park was practically deserted. Southern Right Whales are only spotted from Warrnambool in Winter (that's Australia's Winter), so we would not be seeing any today! The beach looked very inviting, except it was soooo windy ...

... up close to kangaroos, emus (hilarious birds, funnier than ostriches), wallabies, echidnas and kookaburras. It was great - you can pay fortunes to get into wildlife parks to see all these things, yet we did it for free, and had it all to ourselves! Depsite a brief scary moment when we thought we were lost in the bush, it was a fantastic afternoon. Day 11 - Halls Gap to ..er.. Halls Gap Well, our first 2 nighter! There's so much to see here that we decided to ...