Across the border into South Australia early on Friday (30/12) stopping off at Mt. Gambier where a crater hosts the bluest lake you've ever seen, and the Umpherston sink hole is home to beautiful gardens. Reaching 50 degrees in the camper on the way to our next stop, the cool of Naracoorte Caves was a much needed break from the scorching heat outside. The caves were home to a number of fossils from thousands of years ago which fascinated me, but bored tom to de...

From the popular surfing area of Torquay and the famous Bells Beach we headed along the Great Ocean Road. We stopped off at the 12 Apostles, along with a thousand other people before heading along the rest of the beautiful coastline stopping off at Loch ard Gorge along the way. All the pictures and diagrams in our geography text books suddenly became reality....Tom got very excited!! We spent the night at Port Cambell, where Elvis was egged overnight!! On Wed...

Having slept on the floor on our overnight crossing to Melbourne, Elvis decided to break down on us just as we were pulling off the ferry. Having been jumpstarted by the guys on the ferry, we then broke down again outside the caravan park we were to stay in for the next 5 days. Having had the battery changed, we spent the afternoon at Melbourne Zoo, which was a bit crammed and the animals were very sad!! Tom bought an elephant beanie (Emily) to keep wilbur comp...

From Lake St.Clair we passed through the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park via Lake Burbury where some filming held us up. We headed through Queenstown, a heavily mined area of western Tasmania onto the Henty Sand dunes north of Strahan where we went quad biking across the dunes..... It was sooooo fun, but tom and i got pulled aside and told off for holding back and then tear-arsing off. From the dunes we headed to Cradle Mountain where we took an hours...

Having spent the night in Business class, we headed back to reality... off the ferry at Devonport by 7.45am and on our way to Latrobe. Carrying on our tradition of seeing aussie animals dead before we see them alive, we past 2 dead tasmanian devils on our way to the local chocolate factory. Having sampled all they had to offer, several times, we headed to Launceston via ashgrove farm cheese factory in Elizabethtown and had lunch at Mt. Elephant Pancakes. Onto ...