The Heart of Victoria

And so we're here in Melbourne. Been here for 4 days actually and have finally gotten round to catching 5 minutes to write something and get some pictures up.

They have  big thing for art and all that here. We've seen some cool museums on movie and film, and there are a number of alleyways smothered in brightly coloured graffiti.

The city of wooden people...

Spent a day in the city of Geelong just before heading into Melbourne. Not a lot to shout about other than all these weird freaky wooden figures that have been placed along the waterfront. 

Apparently one of the piers was torn down several years ago and a local artist saved all the wooden columns holding up the pier and turned them into figurines of iconic people and groups from the city. some pretty funky ones in there.

I don't know why she thought Simon Starr was of significance to Geelong but he was here anyway in his swimmers...

Its another montage...

Round the twist - Great Ocean Road

The great ocean road runs along the south western coast of Victoria all the way into Melbourne and is absolutely stunning. We stopped off at Port Fairy for...

They were pretty lush...

Behind Bars Over The Border

Leaving south australia we headed into the Grampians national park for a few days surrounded by green after miles and miles of burnt yellow grass...

We planned to climb a few peaks called Mt. Sturgeon and Mt. Abrupt both about 800 meters high. As we approached the park you could see them sticking up into the horizon.

Sturgeon was about 7km return and took us just over an hour - amazing views from the top.

The home of the brave…

The slower pace that we’ve been moving at over the last week has allowed us to turn our attention a little to our next phase of the adventure – THE U.S OF A.

Slower Down South

It’s easier to understand the appeal of south Australia. After the adrenaline and action of Queensland and its cyclones, water activities, theme parks and the speed of Sydney with all its skyscrapers, down here they are seem much more content to take things at a slightly more leisurely pace.

Massive focus on food, drink and good produce – particularly wine with two of the world’s finest wine areas based here in the Barossa and McLaren Vale regions.

After leaving “New Cornwall” and cooking dinner one night at the campsite with a local bloke who’s great grandparents emigrated here from St. Neot! (small world!), We spent a day exploring the Barossa valley.

"Australia's Little Cornwall"

Cornish through and through well nearly... with an added bit of Plymouth and Surrey!

$400 burritos…

This is our 100th post for the blog! Thanks to all friends and family who have taken an interest in our big adventure. Its great to have you with us! :-)

As the weather cleared and the cyclone passed on down to New South Wales we took the chance to drive the 80k’s north back up to Brisbane. Here we would spend the next few days in and around the city before catching our flight to Adelaide.