We've just spent a few fantastic days catching up with several old friends and a new baby addition in Sydney and Melbourne. We had a great time. Not much time for much sight-seeing but, as we'd both been to these cities before, the main purpose was to visit friends.
After Melbourne we hired a car (not a campervan!) and started out on the Great Ocean Road, a fabulous drive going west from Melbourne. We had more time than we thought we'd have there so were taking it steady, which was nice because we got to see bits that Colin didn't see
when he did a coach trip out here 2 years ago. The first night we stayed in a place which was right out in 'the bush'. A very rural place, which meant it had spiders with meaty legs, but it was very quiet and nice to have our own space. Well it was quiet until the parrots and cockatoos started having a squawking competition in the early hours.
The next day we visited the Erskine falls which were just down the road from our lodge and then carried on along the ocean road, passing some more waterfalls, some lovely beaches and some small towns. The next night we stayed in Port Campbell, which we thought was tiny, but is actually one of the big towns around there! We stayed in a fairly normal motel, but it had views of the ocean so it was a nice view to wake up to.
On our final day we backtracked along to the Twelve Apostles (the tall rocks sticking straight up out of the sea). It's a very dramatic coastline around there. We also drove out to a lighthouse and saw lots of koalas in trees at the roadside.
Toady we took the faster, less scenic route back to Melbourne where we will catch up with another friend tonight and then tomorrow we fly out to the middle of the desert where I've heard there's a great big rock . .
No campervan!?!
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