17th Feb We are currently in the 'High Country' between Melbourne and Canberra.This is a series of National parks making up the quite a mountainous region and Victoria's main ski locations.We have spent the last three days in Wilson's Promonotory National Park which is down by the coast, south of Melbourne.I haven't broken the days up like usual as the whole experience seems to have blended into one fantastic blur.The park is one of the most popular in australia...

9th February We made it to central Melbourne by late morning and caught a tram into the city when we realised we would never find a parking slot for a three and a half metre high vehicle in the centre of a city and had to drive out to a suburb. As we have found everywhere the locals were very helpful in pointing us in the right direction. Central Melbourne is based on a grid system and is really well served by trams and buses. The children loved these and we...

5th Feb Now as great as it is to stop off and see all the great things Australia has to offer there are several thousand km's to be covered in this journey and we've done a tiny bit of it so far so today was a long driving day and also, unfortunately for us, but very welcome by the locals the start of a rainy and grey few days. We set off in good spirits as I mentioned in my previous entry because we saw our first kangaroos. Michele actually spotted them as we w...