Blogs from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 373

We have been in Melbourne for nearly 2 weeks after taking a trip down the great ocean road from adelaide. we went to the grampians (spectacular mountain range) and did a walk to mackenzies falls - waterfall - well some of us got there, and others got lost and scaled a cliff! also we went on high walk to the pinnacles - views. then onto the great ocean road where we then went and saw things like london bridge (handrails! or should that be no handrails?) which is a rock in sea in shape of bridge. the 12 apostles (of which there are 14 - of course) which are another bunch of rock stacks in sea. * this is a couple of weeks later on and just yesterday one of the apostles fell over and crumbled ... read more

School is out and the fun has begun. I finished off my last exams last week and am now on semester break until the end of July. I have finally started doing some of the touristy stuff I haven’t had time for during the school. Matt (a Kiwi classmate of mine) and I went to Healsville Sanctuary. It is about an hour out of the city in the Yarra Valley and home to one of the largest collections of Australian wildlife in captivity. Anyway I got my fill of all the Aussie favorites: kangaroos, wallabies, dingoes, wombats and even a Tasmanian Devil. Unfortunately the Kangaroos decided not to be very sociable but were able to get up close and personal with both a wombat and a dingo. My Israeli friend Soshi also got married recently, ... read more

Hey. Hopefully this blog will be a little interesting and alot easier than the actual packing of all the gear and equipment. At the moment we are deciding if it will take 3 days or 4 to get everything into the camper. The other option is to leave one of the kids behind and use the space for the spare oil filters.....oil filters are important. Anyway...we look forward to sending you some stuff and hope you enjoy. Cheers. Ange, Geoff, Lloyd, Molly & Lucy. ... read more

Meet Han Brit Owen Queen Victoria Market Lots of stuff to buy. I met up with Han, Brit and Owen at the Queen Victoria Market today. It’s much busier on a Sunday! I was hoping to find some souvenirs to send home but was having too much fun making fun of all the cheesy stuff on sale that I didn’t really get around to buying anything. We bought a few snacks and food and then caught the tram to Brit and Owen’s place. They have a really cool place that they decorated really funkily. We dished up all of the snacks, cheeses and fruits and dug in and chatted away. It was really nice to see Brit and Han again and it was really nice to meet Owen as well. Han, Brit and I took a ... read more

Today the bike went into the box and I won't see it for a couple of weeks until I get to LA and find out how it travelled....and what's left. Hope to get the photos up...the Bike, The Map and The Rider with his long-suffering children...... read more