After spending the last few nights crashing on the floor of first Natalie's place and then Jamie and Laura's, today we moved into a little place of our own that we will be calling home for the next six weeks or so while we are in Melbourne. We are renting a one bedroom flat just outside of the city in Westgarth from a girl that had to go to Sydney for work on short notice. It's only a ten minute train ride into the city centre and only a few stops along the line ...

We are now back in Melbourne once again after a couple of days out in the sticks at The Grampians and feeling refreshed after our first shower in three days! We set off on Friday afternoon with Natalie and Dan to begin the journey west and after some debate as to whether or not we would get charged for using the freeway, we had finally left Melbourne behind us as night fell. We continued on through Ballarat and Ararat and other rodent like towns as the freeway...

We have now been in Melbourne for a few days and have managed to catch up with a few friends ahead of our weekend camping trip to the Grampians this afternoon. After getting ourselves set up at the campsite outside of town we went for a drive around on Wednesday to try to get ourselves familiar with the city, but it is so much bigger than anything that we have become used to recently! We did at least manage to find out where we needed to go in the evening to mee...

We left Philip Island this morning and after a few hours of driving we arrived in the Dandenong Ranges just east of Melbourne and after a leisurely drive through the ranges, we came to rest at William Rickett's Sanctuary - a four acre section dedicated to the work of William Rickett. The whole area is filled with clay figures of Aboriginal people and their dreams, which are half hidden amongst the trees and rocks along the pathways that William Rickett spent a...

We arrived on Philip Island this morning after the short drive from Venus Bay and immediately got ourselves lost in Amaze 'n' Things - a huge complex of illusions, games and puzzles. The first thing we came across was an octagonal 'house' with a huge tap suspended above it with water pouring down through the windows and into a moat around the bottom, which marked the entrance to the main centre of amusements. Once inside we proceeded passed the hall of mirrors...