Yarrangobilly Caves and the Australian Alps

Went on a beautiful day trip today with Rachel and Dubs. About 2 hours drive up into the Australian Alps and to Yorrangobilly, where there are some stunning caves to tour, a lovely riverside mountain walk and a hot spring swimming pool! All in all very lovely day complete with picnic, ice-cream and swimming (oh and walking up very steep hills in blazing heat! I'll sleep well tonight!).

Have a few piccies :)

So my time in Wagga Wagga has come to an end, I'm leaving tomorrow to go back to Sydney on the train. I have lots of lovely photos to share with you from the last few days, I will try and fit in sharing them over the next few days before I go to New Zealand next week!!! Thanks for being patient with me :)

An Australian Christmas!

 

So I know I'm being a bit late and blogging this on Boxing Day but it's still Christmas in England right!? :P

So my Australian Christmas consisted of 15+ Australians, 6 dogs, hot HOT weather, an afternoon storm, water-volleyball in the dark, swimming, unexpected presents, pool competition (I lost miserably!), marjong, lovely family, wonderful company, amazing vegie/meat christmas dinner, blissful air-conditioning, skype conversations with my boy and the family in England :) :) :) and lots of fun!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!! :)

The Great Ocean Road

So, I decided to splurge a little and do a trip/tour thingy and the one that comes highly recommended in Melbourne is a One Day tour of the Great Ocean Road. Even better they have a 'Sunset Tour' option which naturally was my choice so yesterday off I went in a bus with 24 other people from all around the world and a very friendly, hilarious, aussie driver (though he definitely had his own politcal/environmental agenda lol. Though his quirks did make it all the more entertaining!).
So I played co-piolet for the day, sat at the front with the best views and prayed for good weather!
Here's what the tour incuded...

Bells Beach

Historical Light house

Seaside Villages

Great Otway National Park

Lush Rainforests

Wild Koala spotting

Port Campbell National Park

Sunset at the world famous Twelve Apostles

Loch Arc Gorge

London Bridge

Unfortunately the weather wasn't great and the sunset we got was just about there but very stormy looking skies (quite nice though actually). Thankfully the rain came only in the times we were in the bus so all in all a good day was definitely had and it was just about worth the money :)

At the end of the day it was nice to spend the whole day travelling with a whole bunch of other people.... it can get quite lonely always doing stuff on your own!

Here are some piccies as promised...

So that was that!

And now I am in Wagga Wagga, with family, in the sunshine, in 'real' Australia contryside, with the dogs and the horses and the chickens, relaxing, unpacking, ready to spend a lovely 9 days over Christmas! I've been here 7 hours and already it's lovely! (Though I did get bitten by 6 mozzies within the first 5 minutes lol - typical!)

Love to you all for Christmas!

Mike - wishing you were here!! xx