The weather is still overcast as we drive further west from Cape Otway, but brighter so at least the photos are not as bad as they could be. So on we travel, away from the coast through rainforest where tree ferns spilled over the edge of the road, up to Lavers Hill then down, down, back to the coast, back inland a bit and coast again and then ……….. it just seemed out of nowhere, buses, vans, cars, people, people more people.   Yep here we ...

Monday we took to the Great Ocean Road.   I have seen photos and heard a lot about it so now was the time for us to do it.   A little bit of a history lesson here kiddies, I didn't know these facts so will share them;  the Great Ocean Road was built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932 and dedicated to those soldiers who gave their lives in WW1.   It is 243km long, stretching from Torquay to Allansford, is Australian National Heritage listed and ...

We got underway in the driving rain and pulled into a large open service station to fuel up.   We had noticed how blustery it was outside and only found out just how bad it was when I opened the door to get out to fill up.    It was snatched out of my hand and I sort of spilled out onto the forecourt.   The wind was blowing around 70kph and was whipping around anyone and anything on the forecourt.   Bill got out and he took on the fuel filling, buffeted ...

A couple of hours driving from Clarkes Lagoon and here we are at Glenrowan, the scene of Ned Kelly's last stand.   This town is Ned Kellyville!   Life-sized and bigger than life-size and much, much bigger than life-sized models of Ned in his long bush ranger oilskin coat, boots and iron hood and body armour.   Even when we checked into the caravan park; Ned with pistol in hand, stood on the driveway – waiting!We set up camp then jumped in their l...

Well that 90 minute drive turned into around 2 ½ hours. We climbed steep mountains with awesome scenery into the valleys below, glimpsed through the crack in some of the trees.   The water temperature in the car certainly on the rise.   Then down, down, down, really steep low gear stuff, with the brakes certainly warming up. Mountains and valleys and plains all in the space of 20 minutes or so.   We stopped to let the brakes cool at the Southern Cloud M...