From cape bridgewater we took the princes highway which after going thru rainforest came out to the great ocean road......our first glimpse of this special coastline was a view of the bay of islands.......this was Sunday afternoon and sunshine.....that soon turned to a storm by the time we got to our motel for an overnight stop....I felt overwhelming tired and Port Campbell I haven't much recollection of!....the next morning I was disappointed to see wind and r...

Settled in nicely in our large house on stilts with a white sand long empty beach to walk along. Skippy visited us at dusk...always a bonus...next morning tom went missing , I found him across the lawns at a cottage chatting to four ladies....these ladies were in the cottage fir a week...they only cane from Portland 20 mins down the road....but told us they do this three times a year...bring their sowing machines and sow...and sow....morning till night......they ...

Three days in Robe were rather boring as the weather turned cold. The day we left was lovely and warm!...we had a long drive ahead....too long perhaps in hindsight. We did a stop at Southend and walked this empty beach....collected some amazing pretty colored " escargot" shells for little Thomas. We left Southern Australia and its huge sheep and cattle stations, and entered Victoria, driving along huge eucalyptus forest we were blessed to have a koala cross th...