Wahey! Nice weather this morning! Claire got her cut and Dave went to get the tickets for the big event tonight - the world famous penguin parade.This is where 500+ 'little penguins', the smallest in the world at 30cm come t shore every evening after a long day out at sea eating fish. They come out in groups and walk up the beach to find their burrows for the night. It was a cold afternoon and windy as we checked out the Nobbies and Seal Rocks. The seals are ab...

Leaving Melbourne with a slight hangover, we made our way through the city South towards the coast and Phillip Island. We had a quick stop off in San Remo to watch some pelicans being fed before crossing the bridge to the island. All the attractions here are best appreciated in non rainy weather so were at a bit of a loose end. We went out for a massive lunch and the just chilled out in the van, cursing Australian weather. We know it's winter here but you never...

CLAIRE'S BIRTHDAY!!! We spent the morning celebrating Claire's birthday along with the Kangaroos and of course the rain! We then set off, with hopes of doing the Great Ocean Road but it turned out to be a lot longer than we had anticipated and the weather was still letting us down so we thought we might as well go straight to Melbourne. After navigating our way through the very streets of Melbourne that are shared with trams and have lanes to turn right on the...

We spent most of last night listening to the rain thunder down on our tin roof. It faired up a little so we went to Brambuk to have a walk round the creek. We got a little lost but managed to find dozens of Kangaroos chilling out and looking cool. We also saw some wild emus and and deer, though the deer being deer assumed we were going to eat them or something and bolted on first sight. The rain soon came down again so we sheltered in our van for most of the aft...

Left the city in the direction of the Grampian Mountain Ranges. A vast area of mountains, rocks, lakes, waterfalls, the bush and wildlife. Hopefully we'll see a kangaroo! After quite a long drive and 3 hours of French lessons later we were in the middle of the Grampians. Within about 5 minutes our wild kangaroo count had gone from a mere 1 to 100's! They were everywhere! Bouncing around in large groups, in the middle of the road just standing up right and s...