We left for our 6 month holiday on November 26, 2006. We left Calgary airport at 8 am, landed in Los Angeles, had an 11 hr stopover and then continued onto Melbourne. We arrived in Melbourne after approximately 40 hrs of travel time. From Melbourne Dave and I plus his family travelled to Stratford, which is about 3 hrs east of Melbourne. The state of Victoria is currently experiencing the worst drought in recent history. As a result there are some severe bushfires burning that we actually saw start. While in this area we did a few tourist activities, including Buchan Caves and Lakes Entrance. The caves are limestone caves that had lots stalactites etc in them. From there we headed to Lakes Entrance which is on Bass Strait, took only photos because the water was
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