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…

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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.

Cyclones and Coasters

In the past 2 weeks we’ve driven down from Cairns along the coastline through every single town that’s now swimming in floods. Luckily we made it down to the gold coast just in time to spend a few days at the theme parks before they were closed. Of course it wasn’t the best weather for rollercoasters but it didn’t stop us. It was however the PERFECT weather for water slides so the wet n wild water park was totally awesome.

The Floods are here but we are safe

Just a quick one to say yes we are caught up in the bad rain and flooding down here at the Gold Coast. We have abandoned our tent and are heading to a hotel for the rest of the storm. We'll be safe :-)

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Crikey! What a Zoo!

Steve Irwin, lets applaud the man. Australia Zoo is just north of the town of Beerwah on the aptly named “Steve Irwin Highway”.  The sun has well and truly gone now and we are into persistent rain and cyclone season, but this wasn’t going to hold us back.