Well hello again. Thought it was time to put another update on here. I dunno why I hate doing it so much, Im addicted to facebook but somehow this takes more effort!

Headed south on the Great Ocean Road with the international Melbourne gang consisting of Candians, Irish, Ozzies, Malaysians, Scottish and English. Quite the intrepid travellers! Apartment was amazing. Really close to the beach, not that much time was spent there due to the s***ty weather, rained or was windy as most days! Went to see the Erskine falls, pretty cool, didnt bother going to see the Twelve Apostles as it was like a 3 hour drive and to be honest, if you've seen them in a book, you've seen em! Im told the north of Ireland Giants Causeway is more impressive anyway ;) Had dinner in a nice pub in Lorne and wandered around the shops. Also had lunch in a nice seafood restaurant and saw none other than Ken Doherty, snooker player, sitting a few tables away! Madness.

Other than a lot of over competitive scrabble games in the evenings, we were well behaved. Despite Rob and Janette turning up with what was essentially enough booze to stock a bar after being asked to pick up a few things from the shop.. We got through it though! New Years was started with scrabble and finished with a walk on the beach in pitch black, stumbled across a teenages party with hundreds there, then it got busted by the police and we all sheepishly walked/ran away. Rob nearly got run over by the police jeep at one end and went to hurl his champagne bottle at it in disgust and then saw the lights on top lol.

New Years day was a quiet affair that involved fish and chips, then tormenting seagulls by giving them huge things they fought over, very entertaining none the less... We topped the week off by watchin wolf creek and scaring the crap outta me, everyone else just laughed at me. I was shaking in bed that night!

That was all Anglesea had to offer, then it was on to Sydney via a few destinations.

Wilsons Promontory - the southern most tip of Australia. A beautiful park. Despite the couple of Wolf Creek incidents I survived mostly unshaken. Saw a wombat by a pool. Pretty cool.

Lakes Entrance - another really beautiful area. Old school sort of sea side town. Fed the seagulls again with more tormenting, cruel really, played some mini golf (a holiday must), ate seafood and that was that!

Snowy Mountains - that was where I had intended to book accommodation, but ended up somehow going back east a bit to a town called Albury. The drive there, would scare the pants off most people, but me worse than most! Imagine really massive mountains. Then lots of old trees like look like fire wood, then 35 degrees and high fire risk, then crap car that hardly pulls itself up hills, vertical drops, tight bends. DIRT TRACK and me... I sat in silence most of the way just hoping I would get the car round the corners lol. Made it thank god. I have never been so glad to see a tarmac road. Shortly after the gravel road came my encounter with public toilets in a one shop town... I walked in to them and all I could here was buzzing. Like, LOADS. I expected to open a cubicle and see a dead body. I froze for a few secs, then pulled myself together and said I could just go quickly, opened the door went in and was about to close it when I saw this GIANT moth on behind the toilet. I just ran back out and was like, never again. Traumatic! Drove past these really cool trees in a lake. I'll put the photos up when I get a chance. They had put a dam in and flooded this area, so it was just dead tree trunks and branches in the middle of a really blue lake. Amazing but like something out of a sci fi film! Hit nearly 40 degrees when I got to Albury, too hot, with a HOT wind, imagine being in a fan oven and ur there..

Next day, drove on to Canberra through the Snowy Mountains. Nearly hit a kangaroo, it was right at the drivers window, I nearly shat myself, then it stopped and hopped back. Surreal. Saw a cool hydro power station, and the ski resorts. Highest point in Australia, DONE! Rest of the drive pretty uneventful, not alot to see in Canberra, wouldnt recommend it. Next stop Sydney