Our aim was to visit the historical site Port Arthur, so we rented a little "cabin" on White Beach....and had the whole beach to ourselves. It was quite spectacular but far too cold to swim. After checking in, we booked ourselves onto the Ghost Tour at Port Arthur, 10 minutes away. We duly turned up and spent the evening being guided around the spooky church, asylum and surgeons house. Didn't see any ghosts but it was quite eerie all the same. We we...

Surfers Paradise......so much for that, no one was allowed in the sea because of the tremendous waves! The apartment owner almost wept with relief to see to "mature" travellers, after going through the hell which is "Schoolies Week". Lots of high-rises, all trying to out do each other in the race to heaven, it must be fab to see what the people in Business class eat! Anyhow, seeking cultural enlightenment, we decided to join the masses and g...

Our trip from Hobart was pretty uneventfull. We dumped all our stuff in our room and set off to Bicheno and the wildlife park. We were greeted by the local press. "They can't be here to see us can they ?" said Jo, unfortunately not, they were here because the bush fires were getting close and they were worried about all the animals. The park was great. I finally managed to see a Tasmanian Devil, not just 1 but 13 of the litle devils !!! Jo got to ho...

We finally made it to Tasmania after a bit of confusion with the flight. They merged our flight with a later one and unfortunately forgot to tell us. This delayed us an hour and then that plane got delayed a further hour, so we didn't arrive in Tassie until 12.25am. We were worried that our car hire place would be closed, but luckily for us (not so for the girl putting 2 hours of overtime) it was there waiting. As we late getting to our accommadation we decid...

We hired a slightly bigger car than usual as now there were 3 of us and as we were driving the Great Ocean Road we presumed that we would be spending quite a bit of time in it. Our first task was to find our way out of Melbourne and make our way to the start of the road at Torquay. Luckily for us the owner of our hotel gave us really easy directions so we didn't need to rely on my (Stephen) sense of direction. We had booked 2 nights in Apollo Bay so we headed...