Blogs from South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Today was our final ride of the Great Ocean Road trip. It was a very wet afternoon yesterday in Lorne and their was discussion about missing today's ride if the weather was too bad. When we woke up this morning there was patchy cloud cover and not raining so the decision was made to finish our ride. It was a great ride and the weather was fabulous, in fact 3 out of our 4 riders were sun/wind burnt. We can all now confidently say that Big Hill just outside of Lorne is defnitely not a big hill when compared to Lavers Hill. We finished our ride Anglesea and drove to Melbourne. Arriving in Melbourne it was very wet and we spent the afternoon hopping on and off the free tram visiting Queen Victoria Markets, South Bank ... read more

First day of spring (fall) in Melbourne was cool and cloudy. It was perfect weather to visit Healesville Wildlife Preserve and check on the critters. Last year, the endangered species here were sent to the Melbourne Zoo for R & R as the bush fires threatened. Everyone was thrilled when three Tassie Devils were born. Guess the parents thought they were on a second honeymoon. We visited the usual suspects, three varieties of kangaroo, the devils, emus, wombats but the platypus was a no show. The best part for me was the wild birds that came to feed at the emus’ feeder. There was a Rainbow Lorikeet and a Gullah (a variety of cockatoo) and a wonderful, colorful parrot. The Sulfur Crested Cockatoo screeched overhead. After two hours strolling the grounds we left for the Rochford ... read more

Dear all I have set up a TravelBlog diary for our trip to Thailand (starting Tuesday December 1). This is a test run to see if it is working. You will get e-mail alerts with a link to the TravelBlog website whenever we make an entry. Click on the link. In some cases, the e-mail may go to your spam folder. So, if you have stumbled across this in your spam folder, just mark it as "not spam" or not junk". Hopefully we will get time to add to this diary - the schedule is busy, busy ,busy ! Craig and Ross... read more

Hi there folks. First entry into the travel blog. Working out how it all works. This is the first leg of my round the world trip. Launch time: ... read more

Hello all from sunny Melbourne : ) We travelled to Melborne on the horrible night bus - but thankfully that will be the last! We are staying in an area called South Yarra which is lovely and only 10 mins from the city. On Tuesday we chilled out in the burbs and tried not to look like walking zombies and had a very early night. On Wednesday we had a city exploration day. We Waled through the main central district, over the Yarra river to an area called South Bank (very cool) then we headed up The Eureka Skydeck - the new and highest viewing platform in the Sourthern Hemisphere! We had a few drinks on Federation Square and headed back to S.Yarra for a trip to TGI Fridays!!!!! Yesterday we had a fantastic day. We ... read more