We arrived in Melbourne to complete the second leg of our Australian journey. What a fantastic city, it has such a cool vibe. It's brilliant for shopping and there are some great markets to lose yourself in. We also managed to check out St Kilda beach and have a night out at the well known Esplanade Hotel where we saw a few live bands and partied until 5am. From Melbourne we did a three day tour up the Great Ocean Road. We went to the famous Bells Beach and did some talent spotting, it was great fun. We also saw loads of Koala's in their natural environment. They really are the cutest things. Wouldn't it be cool to sleep for twenty hours and be awake for four. Naturally we saw the amazing Twelve Apostles and many other beautiful limestone formations, like London Bridge, The Bay of Martyrs, The Arch and The Bay of Islands. It really is a beautiful coastline. It was quite a physical tour and we managed to scale a few mountains. It beats being at work and the views from so high up are absolutely breathtaking. There were heaps of Kangaroos and we were lucky to see a few Joeys in their mommy's pouches. From Adelaide we did another six day tour up to Alice Springs. The bus journeys were long, but stopping off at all these random, quirky one horse towns and famous sights made it all worth it. Parachilna was a place we stayed at the first night and it literally took two minutes to walk around the whole town. The sunset that night was gorgeous and after a dinner of Kangaroo, Emu and Camel, we all placed our coins on the railway track, waiting for the 2km long coal train to pass by and flatten them. We probably need to get out more. The people on our tour were brilliant and we got on like a house on fire with these two nutty Danish chicks. One of the other stops we stayed at was Coober Pedy, which is an Opal Mining town. Most of the houses are built into the mountains and it's really bizarre seeing people live in these windowless homes. It's a very dry and dusty town where the temperature can reach the 40's. Apparently it's a good filming location for desert and alien movies. Mad Max and Pitch Black were among the movies that were filmed there. Next stop was Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) and Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kings Canyon. These places are so immense and so beautiful. The weather wasn't completely on our side but it was still amazing. We camped a lot and it was great but I don't think I'll ever take switching the lights on for granted. Especially when you need to answer a call of nature in the middle of the night and your torch decides to go on strike at that precise moment. We managed, not intentionally, to swallow our fair share of flies and insects while in the outback. Not a pleasurable experience. After Ayers Rock we were off to Alice Springs where we spent two days before our next tour to Darwin. At this point we had made some pretty good friends with the people on our tour and it was great to spend the next six days with them. We started the journey at the Devils Marbles, where we did a bit of rock climbing for the perfect photo. That night we stayed at a cattle station, where we were chased around by a crazy turkey. Oh well, Christmas is on it's way soon.....The next day we stopped at the famous Daly Waters Pub, which again is in the middle of nowhere. It's the type of place where visitors can leave behind a souvenir. Some choose to stick photos on the wall and others leave behind their bras and undies and flip flops. While checking out the remnants of crazy travellers, we stumbled across a photo of Sanj, who we spent New Years in Sydney with. It was such a coincidence so of course we decided to jump on the band waggon and leave our mug shots taped to the wall. Katherine Gorge was our next stop, where we hopped onto a jet boat to see the beautiful waterfalls. It was great fun and we got soaked. We got to Darwin in time for a bit of a night out with our crew. As luck would have it, we bumped into Sanj and spent a mad night dancing on the table tops until the wee hours of the morning. After one hour of sleep we managed to get onto the tour bus the next day. Our tour guide was a major piece of eye candy which instantly cured our sorry states from the night before. We headed off to the Lichfield National Park to swim in some of the waterfalls. Wow, it was brilliant to be able to jump into the water from the rocks. That afternoon we went on a wildlife cruise on the Adelaide River to feed the crocks. It was a pretty cool experience but I think we'll leave the crocodile wrestling to to Steve Irwin. Those creatures look fierce, especially when they're flashing their pearly whites. The next day we went to the Kakadu National Park and had another chance to swim in the waterfalls. The force of the water literally takes your breath away. The feeling of being in such beautiful places is indescribable. Our guide was brilliant and a real adrenaline junkie, so when he scaled up the rock faces to jump into the water, we all wanted to. We declined, since breaking any bones was not on our travel agenda. The following day we saw loads of Aboriginal Rock art in some of the caves and learnt the stories behind them. That evening we were back in Darwin to celebrate our last night in Australia. We've travelled 8,000km in 14 days, we've camped and got eaten alive by insects but we wouldn't change a thing. We're really quite sad to leave, especially since we have met such wicked people. We'll be back, Australia has not seen the last of us.