Blogs from South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 221

sorry for the delay in writing guys, but i have been a bit.....well..... lazy!!! My apologies for all. NOW!!! Onwards we go towards South Australia. We head along the highway towards Mount Gambier. This quaint little place is actually a volcanic crater surrounded by 3 lakes. The most photographed of these is the blue lake. Now, no one really knows why the lake is blue. Some say its because of some kind of bacteria that grow there, others say its due to light affecting it. I think its probably bacteria. Anyhow, there's actually not that much to see here otherwise. You can dive the blue lake, which has amazing caves to dive through.......................but we didn't fancy this much, and wanted to continue through. So we thought we'd get the camera out, take a picture of the ... read more

...So we are in South Australia... on our tour one of the first things we saw was a car just off the road...in a tree! it was mad the car had swerved to miss a kangaroo at 100kmph and ended up in a tree! We saw some more massive egales this time they were really close cos they were eating a dead kangaroo on the side of the road. Just before we arrived at Coober Pedy we stopped at the Longest Man made "structure" on the planet...longer than the great wall of China! its only a little fence but it stretches nearly the whole width of Australia and was used to keep Dingos away from Sheep...so we played the sheep and Dingo game to illustrate this! lol. We eventually arrived at Coober Pedy named by ... read more

Lady C has not only departed but has arrived- at this stage in Anchorage. Travel, arrival & hotel all A.O.K. The only glitch was in the departure schedule. I had planned to dump herself at the airport drop off zone, depart without any parking fees, and return via Kelsey Cottage for a celebratory meal. Her outdoors put a veto on this and we had the meal on the way down whilst she was still with. Dampened the celebration somewhat but at that stage she was still the one who had to be obeyed. Some of you have visited Kelsey - for those who have not - Come stay with us and we will take you. - Take & if you twist our arms pay for. Regards to all and as things move and info is available ... read more

The Great Ocean Road is a gorgeous piece of coastline which I would put on a par with the West Coast of the South Island in NZ. The sort of place where you load Bic Runga or Damien Rice, onto the iPod, and listen to the music as you observe the scenery passing by while thinking and discussing deep philosophical thoughts! I am lucky, in times like this, that Damien prefers to be the driver - I can be the observer (and DJ!). One of the many beauties of Pearl (our 1995 Ford Falcon stationwagon), is that she doubles as an accommodation block. Depending on your choice of public carpark, truck stop or camping ground, you can wake up to million dollar views! We have fitted roo-shoos onto the car. They look like a type of ... read more

Hi All, Since it was a while since we updated (and it'll take a few more days to arrive to a place where we could spend more time with a computer) we're posting this short one . Everything is great, we're driving like Road Train drivers . We're currently at Cobber pedy (Which is basicaly a huge opal mine with a few stores) . We think that we'll add the detailed story at Monday so stay tuned ! Chen & Elad .... read more