We awoke to a dawn chorus of Cockatoos screeching and kids running around the camp site. How inconsiderate, it was still 9.30am. I am not sure what has got into us both, especially Ju, she normally kicks me out of bed. After seeing the snake sign the other day I was cautiously looking in every crack and cranny before stepping anywhere. Ju has found this amusing until I pointed out another sign I had seen on the inside of the toilet door which read... 'Venomous sn...

We woke late after our night out in Port Fairy. As a result we didn't leave the campsite until about 11am, and began our journey inland to the Grampians National Park. The journey was quite straightforward to Dunkeld, the town at the southern gateway to the national park. There we stopped at the tourist information centre to pick up some maps and touring routes. Many of the roads through the park were shut off due to severe flood damage from last year. Luckily th...

I took a short stroll up to the beach first thing this morning whilst Julia wrote her blog. We hadn't got up as early as we had liked but this didn't bother me as we probably needed our rest. We drove a short distance up the coast before stopping off to take in the sights at Bay of Islands. There was also another feature called London Bridge. Part of the feature at London Bridge had dramatically fallen down in 1990 leaving two tourists stranded on one of the rema...

As I write this it is the morning of Thursday 8th December. We are sitting having brekkie in the sunshine looking over the river we are camped next to. What a glorious start to a day. But I am procrastinating - I am meant to be reflecting on the previous day's experiences. We had another late start yesterday and as we got up told ourselves we really must get our act into gear or we'll be wasting half days of our trip. We left Lorne and drove further west along t...

Have you ever... ever felt like this?... when strange things happen when you're going round the twist. I am not referring to Ju driving me mad but an old Australian kids TV show from 1989. Tony Twist and his three children - thirteen year old twins Pete and Linda and nine year old Bronson - move to an old lighthouse on the rugged Australian Coast. They soon discover that the lighthouse, and the outhouse, are haunted. We took time out to visit the lighthouse. I wa...