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We couch-surfed in Adelaide with a lady who did not ask us one question about us, not once and I cooked all her meals and made her drinks and I did not get one thank you so a bit of a strange experience really! It rained quite a bit whilst we were in Adelaide but we tried to make the most of it; we walked 17km to town and back twice through a nice park; visited a really good food market, went to the Migration museum which was really interesting and visited the wine centre and botanical gardens; so quite a chilled affair.
We then managed to get another relocation campervan deal with Wicked Campers so we set out towards the Great Ocean Road. This camper was so shit, not wicked at all and was nearly falling apart; the weather was poo and the heating didn’t work so I spent half my time under a sleeping bag. The first night we parked up in the middle of shrub land and Dim had a mini freak that we were in a sacred aboriginal area and freaked me out in the process; it was too late to move so we just got
pissed and played cards to take our mind of whatever it was we were worried about!
The following morning the weather was still rubbish but after driving a few hours and stopping at a charity shop to pick up some warm clothes we hit the Great Ocean Road, but quite late. The scenery was spectacular but the weather could have been better and we needed to find somewhere to sleep as it was dark; we ended up sleeping in the 12 Apostles visitors car park so it was great to wake up and walk to the viewing points to see the 12 Apostles first thing. On the way back to the van we saw a sign saying there were fines for sleeping in the car park so we needed to get out of there and quick but the van wouldn’t start so we had to push it off to get it started aargghh..
The rest of the drive was lovely and the views of the ocean were really spectacular but we were rushing and the weather was not on our side so we will hopefully be able to come back with more time and better weather; We arrived
Erika
you make your own assumptions!!in Melbourne late afternoon with no accommodation sorted out but we managed to get a hostel albeit an expensive one in a 10 bed dorm. We did manage to get some good sleep and woke up excited about making our way to Murray River to stay on a farm with Debbie and Padge, family friends of Dims.
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Pat Kilmore
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Adelaide
Wish i'd known you were going to Adelaide peeps, Killas 2 brothers live there Dave and Geoff they would probably have put you up, let us know if you go back will try and arrange something!! Take care Love Pat and Killa