After a very hot trip to the red centre it was out of the heat and back to the city! Apparently there are so many flys around melbourne at the moment that it is classed as a plague! It was ridiculous, just a short stroll down the road and you had about 15 flies on your face and back! Horrid! We were staying in a hostel called Base which was really cool and really but it was ridiculously loud! There was a different theme night every night and a night club below o...

After having an awesome time surfing down in Torquay it was back to my favorite city in the world, Melbourne! We were staying in the Melbourne Metro YHA which is really nice as far as hostels go. It is really clean with loads of TV lounges, DVD lounges and a massive kitchen. It is so nice being back in a proper bed and not being either super cold or too warm. Our first day out in Melbourne we spent trying to find our house that we stayed in for the Commonwealth...

Following a really enjoyable time in Canberra it was back down to Melbourne and to the small town of Torquay, basically a beach town. It was actually where the brand Ripcurl was invented We spent the entire time down at the beach surfing and skimming at either Jan Juc or the back beach! Not alot to report other than real good times, real good swells and real cold beer. It was pretty much a party town, although it did only have 1 pub. On the days that we weren't...

ITS IANS BIRTHDAY! Woke up after the storm to find out that I had left the lights on the car all night! DOH! So we had absolutley no power whatsoever! We had to go out in the horizontal rain and the wind and try and flag down a car. Although we had water proofs on we were still getting drenched. We were soaked through after about 2 minutes. The most annoying part about it was that people would just wave as you signalled in distress. Finally though someone did st...