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We picked up our Wicked Camper on the 27th March in Adelaide. If you’re not familiar with Wickeds, they are the alternative campervan - they’re the cheapest, the most basic (no fridge or power supply here!) and each one is individually decorated with a graffiti style paint job. Oh, and some of the staff take quite a relaxed approach to their work; we arrived at 11am to find the guy at the office totally pissed (although we’re not sure if he was actually working there or if he was just hanging around!). However, despite the strange staff our van is [View Full Entry]

Alex and Urs - Our round the world extravaganza | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 11th 2007 | 188 Views | [diary=147408]

Twelve apostles
Our Wicked Camper
Do you recognise this lighthouse?

The water is the same water, but the ocean is not quite the same Australasia » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road By UV April 10th 2007 Ever since we started driving along the Great Ocean Road, I've noticed it. The sea here is just different than in New-Zealand. I don't kno [View Full Entry]

UV - Yuval Elhanati | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 10th 2007 | 70 Views | [diary=147156]

Surfer dude 1
Surfer dude 2
Surfer kid

Feeling the need to see this "Great" road that everyone talks about in Melbourne, Rob, Mark and myself hired a camp-a-van for a cheap and convenient method for experiencing the trip. Leaving relatively early one morning after a mad farewell night in Melbourne we set off in search of greatness. We began by heading slightly away from our main objective for a place called Sovereign Hill to expreience a traditional Wild Western style show. However we arrived there too late and had to abandon this plan and turned instead towards Geelong. Bearing in mind that the word "slightly" in this [View Full Entry]

Long hair and cliche beards - Gareth Jacques | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 7th 2007 | 65 Views | [diary=145947]

Riding throught hell
A picture can not quite capture how cool this scene was
Bells Beach, Home to the 2007 Rip Curl Surf Champianship

The Great Ocean Road While in Sydney I had set up this tour through the YHA travel agent with Great Adventure Tours This company was really great and I continued to travel with them. I was picked up at my hostel with two German women named Elena and Sara who I befriended on the tour. Immediately I also met three other women named Esther, Hilary and Rosie who were to become an inseparable group with me for the next two weeks. Where were they from? You guessed it- England. Hilary and Rosie are sisters and Esther is moving [View Full Entry]

LFrisard - Lori Frisard | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 5th 2007 | 131 Views | [diary=155043]

Coastal View
Koala
Koala 2

[url='/Videos/2705.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/2705.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] The Waterfall While we were driving down the Great Ocean Road we stopped several times at different places to take in the sites. My favorite place that we stopped at was this rainforrest. We hiked all the way through the rainforest to get to a beautiful waterfall. At the begining of the trail there was a warning sign, telling us to look out for deadly animals that we might encounter on the trail, unfortunately we didn't get to see any of those. The waterfall that we saw was so big and [View Full Entry]

LakeShow24 - Alex Clark | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 4th 2007 | 35 Views | [diary=145036]

View From the Waterfall
Me at the Base of the Waterfall
The Waterfall and the Riverbed Below

Belles Beach Australasia » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road By LakeShow24 April 4th 2007 Alex ClarkThis is Belles Beach, if the name sounds familiar its because it is the beach that is in the last scene of Point Break. That is p [View Full Entry]

LakeShow24 - Alex Clark | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 4th 2007 | 74 Views | [diary=145052]

Belles Beach and the Cliffs
Me at Belles
MC skipping on the Beach

Great Grampian Adelaides Margaret Ashley Love The tour began outside the Melbourne Arts Center at 6:15 in the am with a small little man and "Say a Little Prayer" playing on the shuttle radio. The sun hadn't come up yet and I was asleep again before it did. I awoke to us leaving Melbourne and heading out to the beginning of the Great Ocean Road. The first place we stopped along the way was a little camping ground that was renowned for it's koala infested eucalyptus trees. We saw koalas everywhere! None were close enough to touc [View Full Entry]

ramble16 - Margaret Ashley Love | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 3rd 2007 | 44 Views | [diary=145644]

12 apostles at sunset...
monster ghost rocks
footprints in the sand...

The Twelve Apostles Australasia » Australia » Victoria » Great Ocean Road » Torquay By LakeShow24 April 3rd 2007 Alex Clark[url='/Videos/27 [View Full Entry]

LakeShow24 - Alex Clark | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 3rd 2007 | 41 Views | [diary=148503]

MC and I Infront of The Twelve Apostles
Me infront of The Twelve Apostles
The Sign for The Twelve Apostles

The B100 from Geelong to Warrnambool ...... .....Is better known as the 'Great Ocean Road' (probably because it has a slightly better ring to it) and like most constructed sights in Australia has some connection to British convicts and slave labour. This was one of the trips we had little or no knowledge of before hitting Australia's East Coast, but continual recommendations and its close proximity to Melbourne made it a 'must see' sight before our return to New South Wales, Sydney and our onward flight to New Zealand. Tania and Chris' hospitality continued as they agreed to travel [View Full Entry]

chilled2thecore - Matt & Carla | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 6th 2007 | 646 Views | [diary=142951]

Sunset at the 12 apostles
Me and my shadow
High above Appollo bay

rite, so as was telling you, iv been bored out of my brains, sitting in a hostel all day, so first opportunity i get to do off for a few days, im there.. so what if its, agen, with someone i dont even know, she seemed sound... and she can drive, score!! so im off, hired a car, and drove off to see something else but the for walls of my self- imposed prison... and god, glad i did like; its was well beautiful, imagine your typical car advert road, along the side of the cliffs with the waves crashing [View Full Entry]

claire rodge - claire rodgerson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 27th 2007 | 61 Views | [diary=144222]