So on we go to Merimbula. I have to add at this point, that the places we decided to stay along the coast were kind of chosen for us by the fact that they were all places that had YHA hostels in them. We had no real idea of where we were going to visit along the way and kind of just ended up in these places. We had been told that there were lots of lovely places to stop along the way, and we stopped at some of them and not others. Jervis Bay being a fine example ...

So, the short drive down the coast continued and next stop along the Grand Pacific Highway was the little town of Narooma. Its probably fair to say that anyone who has been along the coast from Sydney to Melbourne to do the Great Ocean road may only have passed through these towns. The decision to go to all of them was based on the floods and having more time than we needed to stay everywhere. Thankfully for us, in particular in this town and the next, the extra ...

So after the disaster of Wollongong, we headed south along the Grand Pacific Highway. Needless to say it was grand, and not grawwwnd. For most of it we were surrounded by forest either side of the road, and couldnt see the ocean at all, but it was still nice. It was somewhere along this route that we started to realise that Australia is much much different to New Zealand. There is something more to this place, I am not sure what it is, and I think it might be jus...

I dont have much time to type this, and I have been accused of not writing enough blogs lately..... so in a few words this is Wollongong It is the only place on the East coast of Australia that has two lighthouses. Thats the good stuff Everything else. Thats the bad stuff. Needless to say it isnt somewhere I would recommend to people to stay. It has just however been pointed out to me that the weather wasnt great and that might have explained it, also we stayed...

For the life of me I cant remember the name of the town we stayed in while we visited the blue mountains, Nagalooloo or JumbaJumba or something weird like that. It was a nice little town, old looking and in the mist was very old gold mining town like (imagination required). We got there just after Summer Bay and it was still quite nice, although it was fairly cloudy still. I think the temperature on the car topped out at 36 on the way up, or across. As for the bl...