More Great Ocean Road

Paul spots a sleeping Koala up a tree & we make a detour to visit Erskine Falls

Great Ocean Road

We spend a few days driving along the great ocean road, stopping off at beaches, view points & coastal villages along the way. The sea is quite choppy here & perfect for surfing. There are some beautifully preserved lighthouses & many stories about shipwrecks.

Our Visitors

At every campsite we stay at we makes some more friends. It's very odd trying to keep wild cockatoos from stealing your museli of a morning.

Kookubura & Stuff

We keep getting woken upin the morning by a sound like monkeys laughing. Eventually we track it down to this little fella & suddenly I remember singing songs at Brownies about the laughing Kookubura. Just had to take a photo of Hedley street. Sorry. Not sure if we've photographed the other side of our van yet. Well, here's a picture just in case. Our van's official name is 'Ultra Trippin' but we've been called him 'Jimi'.

More Koalas

We just don't know how they manage to stay up there.

Koalas

Here are some pictures from our visit to the Koala conservation centre on Phillip Island. We went here the morning after seeing the sunset penguin parade. The koalas are really close & could in theory bite or scratch but lucky for us they sleep for around 20 hours a day. Something to do with their eucalyptus leaves diet & the need to conserve energy.

We're Back!

Phew! Sorry that it's been such a long time since our last entry. Once you're outside the major cities in Australia it's really hard to find anywhere with internet access. I know! Weird isn't it! The only places that we found were one or two libraries which limited your use to half an hour & wouldn't accept any 'outside devices' (that means cameras) so we've been totally flummoxed with the blogging. We have however been saving up all our pictures & news so you'd better brace yourselves ...