ETA was 2:30pm on the 17th and we missed it by 25 minutes due to traffic and a quick stop at the bottle shop to get some cold beers. Pulling into 230 Heytesbury Road we all felt a huge sense of excitement but also a sadness that our adventure was over. Meg was absolutely filthy and Fi and the boys and I weren't in a much better state. We had a quick look around at the boxes strewn throughout our house before deciding it was not the day to start unpacking then ...

Given our experience of the Nullabor first time around we were much more prepared and had more sunlight to play with. As the tent now took no more than 20min to put up/down we planned to do some big km's and warned the boys that they were going to be stuck in the car for a couple of days straight. They were really good about it but we suspect it was because they knew that for every hour in the car they got an hour to play games on their Kindles (The only time w...

With the gold mining town left behind the feeling was that this was the start of our trip home. Having covered over 16,000kms so far the final 17 days were going to be a bit of a rush as we had spent so much time in Queensland. The weather wasn't really co-operating in temperature but it was still sunny so the plan was to head directly south then east and follow the Great Ocean Road from Anglesea in Victoria and up into South Australia. The views were spectacu...

We headed to Phillip Island for two nights. Mainly to see the little fairy penguins waddle up the beach at sunset and also to visit the Vietnam Veterans museum and a chocolate factory. Fi and I had some wonderful memories of watching the penguins almost 35 years ago as kids about the boys age so we were really looking forward to seeing if things had changed…..Oh, had they ever!!! We both remember our experience as driving down to the beach with your flashlig...

We stayed the night at a Motel in Traralgon that looked like it could have been hired by the hour, before heading South as soon as possible after all of us had some very long and hot showers. The weather began to draw in again and rain was pelting on the windows so we stopped, just prior to Wilsons Prom, at a lovely little town called Fish Creek. We grabbed a coffee and then went for some lunch before noticing a little store that was, unbelievably, Alison Leste...