Onto the Great Ocean Road. We stop at the memorial on the road that was built to remember all the WWI soldiers that came back from the war and built the road. Its a steep winding road with lots of cliff drops. First stop was at a Caravan Park to feed the birds and spot Koalas. I actually had a bird eating out of my hand!!!. We then stop off at Apollo Bay for lunch then a slight detour off the GOR to the Otway fly walk park. This is a National park that has one o...

6.30am start from Melbourne. Our driver for this tour was Sean. There were only 5 people on this tour so it was really good and plenty of room to sit in the bus. First stop Torquay. We stopped at a place called Surf City. This is a small shopping complex with all the famous surf brands such as rip curl, quicksilver, billabong etc. We had breakfast then went for a little shopping. The reason these shops are here is because this is where they originated. From here...

Arrived in Melbourne about 6pm. Got dropped off at my hostel in the City Centre. It was a quick shower and change and then off out to go and experience my first ever AFL (Australian Football League) Game. The game was between the Geelong Cats and the Western Bulldogs. As Bones' team was the Geelong Cats thats who I was supporting for the night. It was very hard to try and understand as so many things were happening all at the same time but evenutally I got the h...

We arrived at Lakes entrance early evening. We had dinner at a local cafe and then went and dropped our bags off at the hostel we were staying for the night. We then headed to the Ninety Mile beach. We made a campfire from the wood we had collected earlier that day and sat around toasting marshmallows and chatting. It was an early night though as we had to be up at 6am for a quick brekkie and then to continue our journey. A stop at a town called Foster for morn...

Late Afternoon we arrive at Thredbo Ski Village. This was to be our home for the evening. After settling into our rooms and freshening up. We went down to the restaurant for dinner and a few drinks. we decided to go for a night walk around the village to see if we could spot wombats, but alas nothing, just got very cold! Next morning up for brekkie and then it was off up to walk to Mt Kosciuszko. All wrapped up warm we start our way up by going on the snowgum ch...