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...

An early start in search of Wilsons Promontory National Park.... Having finally found it following a slight, unintentional detour and a visit to another nice bakery, we heded to the our camp site at Tidal River, 30km south of the park entry point. The coastline along the way was beautiful, and the campsite, although geared for 500 camp spots, was really wooded and close to the beach. We headed down to Norman Beach for a swim.... the water was the cleanest and c...

After a very noisy night next to the highway, we crossed the border first thing and headed to Mallacoota. Having parked up next to the inlet for a while, and watched the huge number of pelicans flapping around on the water, we took the scenic route along the beautiful coastline to Orbost keeping our eyes wide open for koalas, but we didn't see any, just a few more stiff wombats and rotting kangeroo carcusses!! We pottered around Orbost for a while before headin...