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We were pretty keen to leave Melbourne by the time we finally could. We had been stuck there for ages waiting for the car in dismal weather. We were a good hour away from the city and it wasn’t cheap to get in either. Work prospects didn’t look good and we couldn’t afford to stay in the city to look anyway, so we set off down the Great Ocean Road. We opted for a speedy tour because we want to get away from the southern winter as soon as we can. The ocean road was actually mostly inland, fairly windy and not terribly exciting. We stopped off at the key landmarks - The Twelve Apostles, London Bridge and The Arch. We were lucky to have a beautiful sunny day. We also saw a bandicoot, which was a really funny thing! It looked kinda like a big mouse only it hopped like a rabbit but on some very thin legs. He came hopping out of the bushes completely oblivious to us on our way between The Arch and The Carpark.
Overnight we stopped in a rest area to save a bit after the painful car bill and then ploughed on all
the way to Adelaide the next day. Crossing the SA boarder was a non-event. There wasn’t even a sign. Rubbish. Once we has established we were definitely in SA we made a couple of tourist stops. The first was in a town called Mount Gambier where we went to have a look at ‘blue lake’. It was a volcanic crater lake and was indeed rather blue. We also checked out the sinkhole they had there which had a lovely garden complete with public BBQ in the bottom. Would be really nice in the summer. The second stop was at a place that was supposed to have a really good museum of the ancient history of the area - complete with life size models of the extinct mega fauna that once roamed the area. The museum was actually really crap: the mega fauna looked like mutated cuddly toys.
In Adelaide we stayed on a campsite on West Beach. It was about a 30 minute drive from the city. There wasn’t much of a city to speak of: Adelaide is more of a big town. There’s not really any skyscrapers and it was really really quiet. The city atmosphere was not
there. The up side of this is that you can drive in no problem and parking is cheap. During our stay we went into the city a few times, trawled the backpackers for work and visited a couple of pleasant enough markets. We also walked to the seaside suburb of Glenelg which seemed to have more going for it than Adelaide itself. My favourite thing about Adelaide was the hills that surround it. It’s very picturesque looking down a street and seeing hills at the end.
We gave ourselves a week in Adelaide to look for work. The closest we got was the offer of an interview in McDonalds. It wasn’t for another week and didn’t seem enough to hang around any longer for so we moved on.
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So you finally met up with Crash.