Warrambool on the south east coast of Victoria was surprisingly quite a large town with a very impressive 5km foreshore promenade bordering the beautiful and sandy Lucy Bay. Pete and I really enjoyed the bike ride there and back as the views are amazing and we think the locals are very lucky to live in such a beautiful area. There are some lovely historic buildings in the towns around south eastern Victoria which have thankfully preserved. It is also quite fascinating to see that this area also has had a lot of volcanic activity with cone shaped hills, huge craters and crater lakes dotted around the place. Many of the lakes contain salt and today we walk of Lake Beeac. What an amazing experience to do and see! We even tasted it! Tonight we are camped ... read more

Camped in Mt Kosciusko National Park this evening, ready for the climb tomorrow. Very windy road to get here but great location. Arrived at the chair lift at the ski village of Thredbo at opening time to get to the start of the walk asap. Weather was perfect as it was cooler than the last few days and the track was amazing with metal gridding all the way, to prevent the ground cover from being damaged. Scenery was great with many many hikers on the trail enjoying the day. Camping tonight right next to the Murray River so the bubbling sound of the constant flowing water will definitely assure a good sleep. We even soaked our aching muscles in the river and to also reduce our body temperature as once again we are in the 30 ... read more

The south east coast of NSW is really quite beautiful with stunning beaches and national parks everywhere. We have just been cruising on down, stopping at the small towns on the way, walking their boardwalks, strolling their white sandy beaches and viewing their turquoise coloured bays. Campsite tonight is high on a hill overlooking the twinkling lights of the next town that we will visit tomorrow which is called Bega, famous for its cheese so the cheese factory tour is most definitely on our tick list! One of my Christmas presents was an electric keyboard, something that I have been harping on about wanting to play for more years than I care to remember so if all goes to plan and I practice as I should I may be able to play something on it maybe ... read more

On the coast now at Bateman’s Bay and we are enjoying once again the feel of sand between our toes. We took a coastal walk track around a small island today and what with the weather being just right we couldn’t help but enjoy ourselves. At the end of a jetty we walked along Pete pointed out an absolutely huge manta ray. Just glad I wasn’t in the water snorkelling as I really would have freaked out! The photo makes it look small for some strange reason but it really was huge! We are now parked in another small but interesting national park right on the beach. This afternoon we even had an echidna walk behind our van whilst we were relaxing on our chairs reading our books! Another very very friendly bird that we did ... read more

Today we set off on the Oxley Highway from Waichope (pronounced Wye hop) to Walcha. The route is also known as the road with 300 bends! We didn’t count them but would guess that that would be about right as we drove up and up and up the mountain pass and down, down, down on the other side! We are now camped in a national park all by ourselves with thunder and lightning going on all around us. It has rained constantly since we have been here but we are not at all bothered as what with books to read, dinner of fried rice and sausages now cooked and eaten along with a couple of glasses of red wine, we are comfortably settled and relaxed listening to Pete’s ipod with its huge variety of artists to ... read more