After the grape picking had abruptly ended we still had 3 weeks before my Mum and Dad arrived in Melbourne for their holiday, so we decided that we would see some of the South East of Victoria. This way we would be able to head straight to New South Wales after my parents left. We packed up and headed towards the Gippsland area heading mainly through the hilly country nearing the Victorian Alps. We stopped on the way at Toorongo Falls, which had a scenic walk via...

We arrived in Melbourne and stayed with my Mum's cousin down in Chelsea Heights, one of the suburbs south of the city and close to the beaches of Port Phillip Bay. While we stayed with Pauline, Stephen, Hannah and Laurel, we managed to have a couple of hours at Frankston beach and visit the City over the weekend. By Monday it was time to start looking for a job, which proved to be much harder than we had imagined. As we had the van we booked in to a campsite down...

Our first stop on our drive was at Port Fairy a small seaside fishing town, first settled by whalers and sealers. We drove in to the centre and felt as if we were stepping back in time, one main street and very old fashioned looking. First of all we took a stroll along the Moyne River which had lots of boats moored up at it's banks and plenty of whitewashed houses overlooking the rivers edge, it was really pretty. A group of school children were having a kayaking...

From the Barossa Valley we made our way South to the Fleurieu Peninsula and we decided to make our way to Victor Harbour. The weather was not very good, cold and raining so there was not a lot that we were able to do. There is a horse drawn train that takes passengers over to Granite Island, which has penguins as it's main inhabitants. We decided to walk across the causeway and were glad that we did as we were lucky enough to see a stingray or a small shark and a...

We arrived in Adelaide and it was sunny and bright, we quickly found a campsite as close to the city as we could so that we could walk in to the city easily. Our first stop was Rundle street full of cafes and restaurants we decided to stop and have some lunch. After waking through the shopping centre which had lots of little malls and arcades we stopped for a coffee. We ended up going in to a shop called Adelaide Hatters, which was full of hundreds of different t...