Onward down the Great Ocean Road, it was a lovely drive and really hot day. Photo stop at Johanna Beach and on to the Twelve Apostles, the famous cliff/towers of which there are only eight left cos they keep falling down, bloody things! We loved this area and enjoyed the drive through very Yorkshire like rolling hills and farmland, towards Melbourne. My back being the state it was in however, we made one more stop at Geelong, a strange city with little goi...

We left Phillip Island and continued along the south coast which is also the very bottom of Port Phillip (at the top of which is Melbourne). There's some cool seaside towns around here and it all seems quite genteel. Sorrento is very posh with its distinctive yellow sandstone Georgian buildings - and the strange nasal Melbourne accent seems rife here. We got the ferry across the spit to Queenscliff which was less posh and more Victorian - there were some st...

Torrential rain marred the next days drive and it was just long and scarey. However, the clouds parted as we arrived on the south coast and crossed the San Remo bridge onto Phillip Island. A rugged place, it's famous for its penguin colony but also has koalas, kangas and seals. The main town is Cowes, which has a great little island-life vibe. The one and only backpackers was full so we checked into Tropicana motel - wohoo! Great. The reason for our stay was to...

After a great breakfast sitting by the water at Narooma, we had a quick stop at the stunning beach there and hit the road again. The drive to Eden was so beautiful and we loved looking at all the gorgeous farms and other properties - it's an amazing part of the country to live in. Mum was drooling. Eden, an old whaling town, is yet another seaside town but is famous for its whale museum. The whalers there found unlikely assistance from a pod of Orcas who live...

On down the coast and we stopped off at Milton to meet Will, who i stayed with at his retreat last time i came this way. We drove through the never-ending Bush to get to his place (which was very naughty as i'd signed a thing at Europcar to say i wouldn't take the lovely sparkly hire car down any dirt roads - oops!) and i knew Mum was going through the same emotions as i did when i first visited - "where the Hell are we?!" and "what could possibly be at the en...