Blogs from Mount Buller, Victoria, Australia, Oceania

If all of you are wondering why there has been a lack of bungy-jump/sky dive filled blogs lately that's simply because we have been living rather normal lives. We've been working 7 days a week and not doing anything too interesting!! Anyway, Hols and I have sufficiently topped up the bank accounts and are heading off tomorrow in a WICKED CAMPER. we're hiring a van and setting first out to the Great Ocean Road then back through Melb and up towards Carines. We are going to expereince distances that english people cannot compute. it we were to drive directly non-stop from Melbourne to Cairnes it would take 36hours. Don't worry though, we've got 2 months to do it and an ipod full of tunes so we should be fine and dandy! Work has been pretty mundane ... read more

Day 1-3: I'd say a great holiday wouldn’t be as great without the occasional mishaps and disasters. Our luggage got stolen on day 1 of our road trip to Melbourne and it still turned out to be the best trip ever. We left at 6am in the morning trying to make it to Newcastle before dark. We’ve experienced 4 seasons within 11 and a half hours of our trip to Newcastle. The nice and cool sunny day turned into a scorching weather as we reached New South Wales. We then drove into a wind storm and torrential rain just past Port Macquirie. We had to put on our thick jackets when we stopped over for lunch in some town in NSW as it was freezing cold. We arrived at our accommodation in Newcastle around 5.30pm just ... read more