Tassie Trip 2015 Day 18 Port of Melbourne - Bright - Harrietville -Tallangatta - Mount Granya State Park The strait was quite calm last night. We were rudely awoken at 5.45am advising us that we could disembark at 6.30am and so basically we needed to get a move on. We rolled off the Spirit at about 6.45am and headed off through a waking up Melbourne town, took the second left instead of the first left and headed over the West Gate bridge and Geelong way inste...

Great Ocean Road Trip 2014 Day 6 Waanyarra - Echuca - Moama - Yarrawonga Rained for the first time this trip overnight. I had to get up and rescue our chairs and the washing line from getting wet. It was so hot last night we had every window and vent open to keep cool and so it was a nice relief to get a decent breeze through at 2.30 - it brought rain with it as well unfortunately. We woke to overcast and rainy skies too and so quickly packed up and hit the r...

Great Ocean Road Trip 2014 Day 5 Warrnambool - Tower Hill - Port Fairy - Hamilton - The Grampians - Stawell - Avoca - Maryborough - Donnelly - Waanyarra (campsite) The Disco clocked 100,000ks today at Tower Hill. More on that later. We awoke at 7.30 this morning to the wonderful sound of a train blasting its horn as it rolled past the caravan park on its way to wherever it was headed. Ok everyone up then! We left just after 8.30 and headed back to Stingray B...

Great Ocean Road Trip 2014 Day 4 Port Campbell - London Bridge - Peterborough - Bay of Islands - Childers Cove - Warrnambool Today was somewhat cruiser than yesterday. We awoke to beautiful sunny skies for a change this trip and so we wanted to make the most of the day. We quickly packed and were on the road before 9am. The wind had picked up overnight and was fairly brisk as we left Port Campbell. We stopped in at London Bridge again this morning and you cou...

Great Ocean Road Trip 2014 Day 3 Apollo Bay - Lavers Hill - Princetown - 12 Apostles - Port Campbell - Gibson Steps - Loch Ard Gorge - The Arch - London Bridge - The Grotto - Port Campbell "London Bridge has fallen down...." Such a busy day today! We managed to cram so much into a single day and still had great fun doing so. Training was called off this morning. We woke to grey skies and there was little enthusiasm from the training contingent. We decided to...