Three weeks and still not one bloody kangaroo……………
Anyway, having set up in a very strange hotel room in downtown Alice I can now relax until tomorrow when I'm
off to Ayers Rock for a couple of days. Looking forward to that as I was just talking to a chap who
was there last night for the sunset and he said there were only 800 or so others there! Blimey o'Reilley
(whoever that is) but it really is bolstering my impression of Australia so far, that even the most remote
but heard of places are to say the least, very commercialised.
I digress. Having met up with Sam in Melbourne and picking up the camper we trundled off down the
Great Ocean Road via Ballarat an old gold rush town now an Oz Pleasurewood Hills minus the rides……….
but, we did pan successfully for gold which I ate! Supposed to be good for you so they said.
Next down to the coast through Geelong,and quickly on through Torquay to stay over at Anglesea.
Fortunately not a Taff in sight!Melbourne
But I did eat my very first Lamington cake - yummy! the infamous Aussie cake of chocolate
coated sponge cube rolled in coconut! (known as a Lami)..
Then Lorne
Set at the foot of the heavily forested Otway Range - just beautiful...
Enjoyed the Erskine River Falls - 30m drop into a fern fringed pool - bliss....
Saw torrential rain that flowed like waves down the road and boughta hat!
Visited the Twelve Apostles and did it in style (see photos)this is where the ship the Loch Ard hit a reef
and foundered transporting immigrants from England to Melbourne in 1878. Of the 53 people on board,
only 2 survived; Eva Carmichael and Tom Pearce, both in their late teens.
Tom dragged Eva into a cave before going for help.

Then Port Fairy
Excellent meal...oysters, crayfish
Robe
What can I say....a truly lovely view....
One of Australias first settlements and established as a deep water port in 1847.
After 1857 over 16,000 chinese landed here and walked to the goldfields to avoid the poll tax!
Population 800.

Kingston S.E.
Known as the "Big Lobster"
Crayfish, more oysters, crab and fish and chips!!!!
Lovely walk along beach.

Barossa Valley
Wine tasting...and Jacobs Creek...see shots

Then finally Adelaide
Visited Garden of Unearthly Delights with Charlie Pickering and the gorgeous Meow Meow....