After BBQ egg sandwiches we set off on Monday from Airlie Beach towards Mackay, with a detour via cedar creek falls which we were told we quite pretty, we got there and there was no falls and the water at the bottom of where they had been looked gross, we names them no water falls. We got to Mackay about and hour later and stopped for a coffee, before going to the airport. The flight back to Melbourne was about 3 hours it was all dead easy and we got our bags str...

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...

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...