We spent the day driving the south coast of the State of Victoria from Cann River to Inverloch. The drive took us through forest, oceanside, beaches, a national park and agriculture land. Lakes Entrance in the southeast is a pretty tourist town that also has offshore gas production facilities nearby. We continued to Wilson's Promontory National Park, the southernmost point on the Australian mainland. It is a great park for hikers and has some interesting beac...

We continued along the coast south of Sydney today. The coastal drive from Sydney to Nowra is called the Grand Pacific Drive and is spectacular. One could do the whole drive from Sydney and return in a day and we highly recommend it. From Bela on the coast we headed inland to see some of the Snowy Mountains. The drive up the range is interesting. We reached a plateau at about 1,100 meters and traveled along it to Cooma. This is not the top of the Snowy Moun...

In Melbourne today. The city has a good transit system. We purchased an all day pass ($14 each) good for all of their transportation systems. We took an express bus downtown and the tram back to the ship. The city also operates a hop on hop off tourist bus that covers all the main tourist spots. The whole route is 90 minutes and costs only $5. Melbourne is quite a pretty city that combines the old and the new very well. It is clean , contains a great deal...