On Saturday morning we left the apartment for the airport, where we parked the van in long stay parking and dropped the car back to the rental company. We then boarded a Virgin Blue 2 hour flight, when we landed in Coolangatta, Queensland the sky was blue and you could feel the difference in temperature as soon as you stepped on to the tarmac. The Gold Coast airport was small and I was surprised that it actually accommodated International Flights. We picked up ou...

We arrived back in Melbourne at about 7am, the journey across bass straight was good and we managed to sleep in our ocean view recliners (reclining seats)! We said goodbye to Scott and Kelly, who were heading off towards Canberra and Sydney. We made our way to the travel agent to collect our homeward bound tickets, we have decided to go via, New Zealand, Hawaii and the USA. We spent the evening with my family down in Chelsea and spent the night at the caravan p...

We made our way over Cockle Creek bridge to the Southwest National Park, part of Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area. We took the shortest walk to Bronze Whale Structure, erected to show the whaling history of the area. We decided to head onwards and we were off North again. We headed through Hobart and on to the Tasman Peninsular and the convict ruins of Port Arthur. We arrived and were shocked at the set up, we were expecting Port Arthur to be a small tow...

The following day we drove onwards towards the centre of the Island our first stop was Nelson Falls part of the Franklin Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, the walk to the falls was easy and as there had been some rain, they were flowing well. We carried on through the mountains us following Scott and Kelly, when they suddenly pulled over a jumped out of the van, Kelly had, had a leech on her from the damp walk to the falls!! We stopped again at an information bo...

We spent a couple of days in Melbourne where we went to V Festival. On stage were Queens of the Stone Age, Duran Duran, Air and Rosin Murphy. It was good, but not as busy as we thought. I topped the day off by being a little drunk and falling off the train, ending up between the train and the platform with a nasty gash on my leg and being put in the back of an ambulance and patched up! We left Melbourne early on a Sunday morning and headed to the port where we ...