After a night in a pub sheltering from a storm that had blown in, I awoke the next morning to patchy clouds, but no rain fortunately. Straight onto the road, bound for Adelaide. Tailem Bend, a small town on the…
Day 5 – Grapes and Limestone
I was woken early at the campsite by a group of three wallabies grazing no more than 5 metres from where I slept. Once they’d had their fill and moved on, it was time to pack up and hit the…
Day 4 – The Great Ocean Road
So this morning I woke up slightly rusty thanks to a few too many beers and rounds of cards at the YHA (thanks Anna, Francine, Peter and Nick!), but it was only a 5 minute ride down to the ferry…
Day 3 – South-Eastern Victoria
I woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise just outside Wilson’s Promontory. I then headed into the park. Initially I was a little disappointed, there wasn’t much scenery to speak of, just the usual scrubby bush hemming in the…
Day 2 – Mountains to the Sea
I’ve decided I’m going to be less verbose in this blog and just let the pictures do the talking. So this morning I left Cooma reasonably early, stopping briefly at a lookout to see the surrounding alpine farmland: Then rolled…
Trans-Australia – Day 1
I’ll have a satellite tracker with me for this trip, so to check out exactly where I am (within an hour’s precision!) hit the link below: http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=05FthS4LpzV9vds6Wg2D9ibWbcNpoKHoU Well, the first day started inauspiciously enough. I awoke early because although I’d…
Day 0 – Trans-Australia
Well, it has been far too long since I’ve updated this page – sadly, life gets in the way often! Around buying and renovating a new flat, Christmas, work, and university, I’ve managed to prepare for the first big adventure.…