After some fine late night cooking, (using authentic Japanese cooking knives and home grown basil and cherry tomatoes) supported by a touch of wine I caught up with my long lost Geelong mate, Ryan, after 2 months to the day making Sarah a tad jealous as she is still there teaching, I think. Geelong is a fine little town an hour from Melbourne. It's cute and spread out as with all Oz, but the view over the river resembles that if Middlesbrough. Not pretty. Albeit,...

We have hit the great ocean road and seen such beauties as the 12 apostles, a shipwreck cove and the grotto. We have even discussing ways to trick each other such as using onions as fake toffee apples an putting toothpaste in Oreos. The scouts need to watch out when I return, cheek will be countered with mischief. Muahahahaaaa. Status • Adelaide fringe festival was pretty bland but then I guess we didn't give it much chance since we didn't get here till 11pm...

Stefan dries dishes with the auto 3000 blow drier in Cowell yesterday. Not very effective. The town was nice and inhabited mainly by old people. A really long high street with nice old buildings which were well cared for. The girls toilets were also used as 'crap art' gallery with pot puri, etc. The gents were not blessed with the same luxury. Our group dynamics have become hilarious. We refer to each other by nationality rather than name, we wind each other (m...

After the best sleep in a while (apart from a vivid dream of being on a pier on my own in a thunderstorm, when I suddenly sat up straight and realised I was in a tent with 2 other people and nowhere near the ocean) we were packing up camp (pretty easy since we didn't bother to tidy uplast night) and I saw a SCORPION!!! And suddenly all four of us, Katie, Steven, Amandeine and I were crowding around it making the most of macro mode on our cameras. Now I suppose I...

I don't know if you can tell on that photo but it is an incredibly clear day today and over the farthest boat to the right I can see the skyline of Perth City. I have just cycled around Rottnest island as recommended by community of travel agents know colloquially as friends and family. I was joined by the charming company of Lieke from holland who I met through Gumtree; a community sharing website also used for finding homes for old possessions which would othe...