Flashpackers

We are now in Adelaide after our 3 day drive.
We left Wednesday and travelled through several coastal towns on the great ocean road - Geelong, Apollo Bay and Lorne. There were alot of rock formations off the coast along the way, the most famous is the 12 apostles which is basically rocks that are in the sea (I couldn't even count 12 of them!),. It didn't really justify all the tourists that were there, there were hundreds! There were also a few Lookouts along the way as well which we stopped off at. We saw some koala's in the wild which was very nice. they were high in the trees but right next to the road so we got a good view of them which was really good to see. We spent the night in Port Campbell...as backpackers you would presume we stayed in hostels, but nope, we got ourselves a 2 bedroom cottage for the night which was v.nice, and very cheap. We went to the beach for a swim at night which was v.cold and v.seaweedy but nice after a day sat in the car!


Thursday we were up early to travel through the Grampians range of mountains and plains. We started off seeing a wallaby by the side of the road (alive), which was nice. We stopped the car and walked to get a photo, expecting it to bounce off straight away, and managed to get some good snaps and get close enough to feed it some grass! Again, there were some look outs and waterfalls to stop at and stretch our legs. We passed into Southern Australia, stopped off for lunch and an ice cream (English toffee and cappuchino) then went to Gulgurn Manja Shelter which was a sight where there were aboriginal paintings on the rocks. There were lots of hand prints and paintings of emu tracks. there are hundreds of similar sights in Aus, but it said only 5 are promoted to tourists so it was pretty special to see them. We stopped the night in border Town, again finding a cabin on a caravan park cheaper than a hostel.


Today we completed the drive to Adelaide which is a nice city..very small and compact but a nice place. Had a wander round this arvo and then took the car back to find we had to pay $330 for scratches on the front...we didn't hit anything on the way or know about them so it came as an unwelcome surprise! About to have dinner. There is a replica cavern club here like the one in Liverpool (if you don't know what that is, shame on you!) so we are going there this evening for a look and possibly, a beverage!

Leave tomorrow @ 7 for our tour up to Alice Springs. Peace Out.