We were up early this morning and no surprise here....rain again. But according to the weather reports today and tomorrow are the best days to go out as the knots were only 10-15 today out on the water. Quite a few people from our hotel were also going out on the same boat. A big bus came and picked us up and took us down to the harbour. We were on quite a big boat called the Quicksilver. A photographer took our picture before boarding the boat. We got settled and I grabbed an anti-seasickness tablet just incase. We got free tea, coffee and biscuits before the boat took off. We got to our first snorkeling stop after about an hour. We chose this company because they go to the outer edge of the great barrier ... read more

Well, we woke up to rain but decided we had to venture out anyways. We headed down to Kuranda. It's a small town in the rainforest area. There is a train and a cablecar that go through the area. On our way out we encounter stopped traffic on the road yet again. We were stuck there for 30 - 45 minutes because you guessed it...a tree fell on the road again. The rain wasn't letting up and we found out the train wasn't running that day due to the weather. The cablecar was running but we decided against it as we couldn't see much anyways with the low cloud. Kuranda does have some markets so we decided to go and check those out. They are very much hippie markets. Heaps of things from Thailand and SE ... read more

We were up bright and early for our winery day tour. A small bus came to pick us up and then headed into the city for the rest of the pickups. We had a full bus of about 24 people. We drove out of Melbourne and into the Yarra Valley known for it's wineries. Our first stop was at Yerring Farm, a small boutique winery. We were given instructions on how to properly critique the wine, swirling the glass, sniffing it all that fun stuff. Then we got to the best part, tasting! They had a bar set up with all kinds of wines to try and we could try as many as we wanted. They had a sweet chardonnay dessert wine that was my favorite. I think I tried like 10 different wines there. Next ... read more

We woke up early the next morning and the caravan park put on a free pancake breakfast for everyone so we had pancakes! Yum!! we drove down to the harbour area where someone built a replica of an old 1600’s boat so we took a few pics and dad talked to a local fisherman of course. On our way back to Melbourne we stopped at Cheese World. A local place that makes all kinds of cheese locally. We could have spent hours in there. We tried just about every cheese and we all walked out of there with heaps of cheese. It was much sunnier today and we stopped at a lookout called Bay of Islands. It was beautiful there! The last stop we needed to see was London Bridge. At one time the bridge had ... read more

Spent the day out with Leahanne and then in the evening we went to collect mom and dad from the train station in town. Unfortunetly we forgot that a rugby game was on tonight at the stadium right by the train station so traffic was insane!! But we got them and drove to their hotel. They were staying close by to Leahanne's place. Mom, dad and I went out for some dinner and I took them out to the bay for a view of the city. Got all caught up on their trip around NZ and they walked me back to Leahanne's place. We are off to do the Great Ocean Road tomorrow!!! Can't wait!!!!... read more