Wanderings in Australia - 8 - Road Trip - Victoria - The Snowy Mountains to Melbourne

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March 5th 2015

Published: March 8th 2015

A long and windy road up through the mist covered Snowy Mountains should have had spectacular views but not for us!! Extensive forests were present, many showing widespread dead trees from previous forest fires, which take decades to regenerate. The road was constantly up, until eventually we crossed the highest point of the Great Dividing Range at Dead Horse Gap ( I'm glad to report none were see... Read Full Entry

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Superb Lyrebird

Goldsmiths in the Forest B & B - Lakes Entrance

Laughing Kookaburra

Goldsmiths in the Forest B & B - Lakes Entrance

With the wonderful wooden bird watching verandah

Lakes Entrance on the southern Victoria coast

Views across Lakes Entrance

WanderingAlison at the 'bird watching breakfast'

Goldsmiths in the Forest B & B

A more typical pose for a Koala - fast asleep for most of the day!!

Norman Beach - Wilsons Promontory

View along the coast on Wilsons Promontory

"British countryside" in Victoria

Entrance Gateway into Neema South

Driving through the forest in Victoria

A dramatic tree

View across Melbourne from our 30th floor apartment

Melbourne Botanic Gardens

The MCG - Melbourne Cricket Ground

Statue of Dennis Lillee at the front

Inside the MCG - awaiting the final of the Cricket World Cup

8th March 2015

Helen and Bob
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Snowy mountains
I enjoyed reading the blog - living the trip vicariously! I liked the koalas in the wild, but you are right, they do sleep a lot. They are meant to be semi stoned on eucalyptus I believe! Glad the trip continues to go well x

12th March 2015

David Smith
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Trip to Melbourne
More fantastic photos from your fantastic Aussie experience. Writing this sat at my desk in gloomy Bradford

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