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Areas in Great Ocean Road: Torquay

Great Ocean Road
1 day ago: johandelaire published a blog
Great Ocean Road
April 18th 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road
Da vi kun havde koert 150-200 km dagen foer, skulle vi i dag naa langt. Det startede godt med at vi for foerste gang for mit vedkommende stoedte paa kaenguruer og koalaer og saa loeb vi toer for benzi ... 2 photos [full story]

Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road
3 days ago: Travel Trouble published a blog
Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road
May 5th 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road » Torquay
So having spent a week with my cousins in Sydney (I'll write about Sydney in another blog), I decided I would take a flight to Melbourne - frequently voted the 2nd best city in the world to live from ... 13 photos [full story]

The Grampians and the Great Ocean Road
April 16th 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road
Day 295 (16.1.08) Before we settled down into trying to find jobs and a flat we wanted to make a trip down the Great Ocean Road. But before we were to get ourselves together we were accompanying Ti ... 53 photos [full story]

The Great Ocean Road
7 days ago: Kate and Blu in Oz published a blog
The Great Ocean Road
May 3rd 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road
Well summer is over, the weather is noticeably cooler, and we have lost our long evenings with the end of daylight saving. On the other hand, the leaves are all turning yellow and red, the grass is f ... 18 photos [full story]

Cruisin
10 days ago: weir published a blog
Cruisin' the Great Ocean Road
May 1st 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road
With Brett back in town, we decided to leave TP and her roomies for a few days and drive the Great Ocean Road on the South Eastern coast. The road starts just passed Torquay, and winds along the coast ... 31 photos [full story]

11 days ago: Autumn L published a blog
The Great Ocean Road and Melbourne
May 1st 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road
So, Jenna and I took a trip to Melbourne and The Great Ocean Road. It was amazing!!! First, our flight left really early so we had to get up at 4:00am and when we got to Melbourne it was 7:30am. We pi ... [full story]

20 days ago: saskagretl published a blog
On the great Ocean Road !!
April 22nd 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road
We left Melbourne yesterday morning towards first Geelong then off to the Great Ocean Road. In Geelong we went to an Aboriginal Cultural center in order to try some boomerang throwings (without ... [full story]

The Great Ocean Road
26 days ago: Sharlottie and Mshellie published a blog
The Great Ocean Road
February 26th 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road
While staying at Nomands We ranged with George and Alex to hire a car and take a road trip down the Great Ocean Road...originally this was a 3 day trip then turned into a week camping! Another lad, to ... 4 photos [full story]

Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia
33 days ago: The Legend published a blog
Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia
March 19th 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road » Torquay
For those unaware, after I got back from New York in October, I decided to go back to Australia for 6-7 months to work as I have a work Visa until Aug 08. Arrived in Sydney few weeks after my decisio ... 13 photos [full story]

Tag 7 und 8
33 days ago: PinterSue published a blog
Tag 7 und 8
April 9th 2008  Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road
Nachdem ich mich schon in einem laut Christine REIFEN Alter befinde, musste ich mich bei Tag 7 und 8 auf die Berichte von Alex stuetzen :-) Tag 7, Arztbesuch, fuer einen Check, ob wohl alles bei A ... 46 photos [full story]


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