Blogs from Grampians, Victoria, Australia, Oceania

When we got to the garage, the men there were very friendly. Unfortunately, the car had to stay there overnight, so they offered to give us a ride to our accommodation. The owner's father was helping today and he called his wife to take us there, it was adorable. The owner's of the B&B were lovely too. They immediately offered to give us a ride back tomorrow and even though checkout was at 10, we could stay as long as we liked since we were stuck here. After a stroll through the local shopping mall - if was raining so there wasn't much else to do - we got a call saying that our car was ready to go! By 13:00 we were out of Geelong, back on the road. And the price wasn't as bad ... read more

So after the non camping debacle we had a lovely night in YHA Halls Gap, although one of the lounge rooms contained a series of vivariums containing many snakes with no labels this making it impossible to judge how thrilled/terrified you should be. A quick and undignified dash to the pub, (It's dead they may close early) and we were by the fire with pie of the day and roast of the day, it's beginning to look like we aren't serious about the camping, We are honestly! We admired the pubs family friendly atmosphere. I admired the drive though bottle-o. We woke to parrots and kangaroos right outside the window and then packed up for our next stop, via the camping shop in Mount Gambier to fix the equipment issues. The sun shone and it was ... read more

G'Day Bloggers, We started the Great Ocean Road and Grampians National Park tour with ‘Wildlife Tours Company’. This was the cheapest tour we found, which included the same things as the other tour itineraries, and especially with the 10% off by booking on ‘tight ass Tuesdays’ is was a bargain ($233) for 2days1night. We had to leave the Tatts hostel at 6.40am to walk to the YHA youth hostel around the corner for a 7am pick up!! We met our tour guide Adam, he was a nice Ozzie fellow and there were a total of 8 of us on the tour, this was the smallest tour by far but meant everyone had loads of room on the bus (3 seats each to lie out on). On the way we passed a car on fire on the ... read more

Geo: -37.0333, 142.5The Grampians is a nice little place to getaway for the day or even for a night.It may be small but it offers some nice walks and views. Pity we went over the long weekend as crowds are not my favourite, but it was still really nice.We left late on the Saturday night after Anna finished work and three hours later we arrived at the campsite, set up the tent and cooked dinner.It wasn't the best of nights, and I don't know why people can't respect the environment they are in (alcohol being a contributing factor), but one group of people were still up at 2am playing music and being loud. A bit over the deadline of 10pm in the rules. And when that selfish group was ushered to sleep by the rain, not ... read more

The Grampians are in the middle of Victoria. Which is really in the middle of nowhere. We found a really good free camp place. There was a really cool hill you go up and down on your bike. I named it Billy’s stunt hill. I could use gear 7 to go up and down it. I was going so fast that when I went up the hill I did a BMX jump. The next morning dad and I got up really early and went for a big mountain climb. It was called MT Stapleton. It was rated level hard. (It shouldn’t have been hard; it should have been VERY HARD!!!!) It was really pretty and in the middle there was a place a named mother’s point because mum would have loved it sooo much. A little ... read more