Wednesday 20th December 2011
Hello hello everyone!!
I cant believe I am emailing on the 20th of December and is definitely not one bit Christmassy!!! I hope you all are well and everything is going good. So here goes the news from the last 5 or so days... it has been a busy few days....i sound like a Eurovision announcer!! All we have been singing is the song from Shrek where donkey sings.... WE’RE ON THE ROAD AGAIN... for the last few days. They have been hard going but great all rolled into one!!
On Wednesday we arrived in Adelaide and spent all day Thursday seeing the sights- we visited Cleland Wildlife park and got to see the Koalas and fed the kangaroos and all matter of animals including ducks and black swans and birds... it was brilliant. The day was fantastic and the weather awesome. We were too late to hold the Koala but we got to pet him and took photos. We then headed to Mount Lofty summit to see the whole layout of Adelaide below us- it was some sight and then before it got dark we managed to go to the Botanic Gardens. That night we ventured out for dinner and found ourselves a lovely Argentinean restaurant. Yum yum!! We have come to realise that Ozzies don’t really do late dinners... as we are finding that when we head out around 8.30pm a lot of places are closed!!! Murphys Law!! Adelaide is very different to Perth, busier and there is a buzz about it. Everywhere is very clean- the streets and houses and gardens are all well kept. Its different!
Friday we drove across the border from South Australia to Victoria and arrived in Geelong later than we had expected. We had misjudged the distance and missed out on the entire Great Ocean Road due to the fact it was dark... however we did see the lovely cobalt blue lake of Mount Gambier, an extinct volcano ... the time error didn’t stop us, the next day, Saturday, we back tracked and saw the whole Great Ocean Road in full colour version. Whoever said it was all “ocean” drive lied!!!! A lot of it is forest... I think we have seen more trees than the ocean along our journey in total ... and we did take the ocean road... . hahaha!! We had the pleasure of also coming across wild koala... Mick spotted a family on the side of the road with their cameras in bushes... it was on a very bad bend and he saw the Koala... so we stopped immediately only to see it come down from the tree and cross the busy road.... not a bother on it. So we followed and Mick took some photos. Extremely cute!!! I’ll have them up on Facebook soon!!! We saw Spit lighthouse, loads of Ocean and the famous Twelve Apostles. AWESOME sight. We arrived back in Melbourne around 8pm to find that the hotel we booked was only a street away from China town and smack bang in the middle of the city of Melbourne. The buzz of the city even so late at night was something else. People were milling about laughing, buskers were playing or singing. It was fantastic. We could not wait for it to be day time again to see it in the flesh!!
As per normal occurrence, Sunday was cloudy!!! Typical!! But it did not deter us. We ventured out and walked the legs off ourselves around the city of Melbourne after a lovely breakfast in a little cafe and we didn’t even get to see a ¼ of the city!! After our walk we settled down to a few drinks and headed out for dinner.
Monday we started our final trek to Sydney. We were under no pressure. So we have taken it easy enough travelling along the coast... again... the amount of trees to ocean/water is greater!!! FOR A COAST ROAD!!! Anyway, we found a beach called Woodside Beach which is the start of the 90 Mile Beach coast..... it was deserted. Completely. One minute I was there taking photographs and laughing, the next minute a buck naked Michael Durkan was running towards the water... his clothes had been left at my feet. I could do nothing else but laugh!!! Unfortunately I didn’t take photos to prove he did this, but I assure you he did. The best I can do is show you a photo of him drying off!!! J We ended up as far as a place called Lakes Entrance and booked ourselves into a lodge cabin for the night. It was cool!! We cooked dinner and vegged for the night. Just what we needed.
Today we have driven to a port/beach called Batesman Bay and are now booked into a lovely little motel. We stopped off at a few beaches along the way in Eden and we went for a wade/swim... I waded, mick swam....which has resulted in a brunt back for the lovely Karen. But such is life. Its not too bad at all thank god. Lesson learnt!!! Tomorrow our final leg of our journey is left before we arrive in Lane Cove in Sydney. Our landlady has been in contact with us twice so far and seems to be a lovely lady. We will be in Sydney for 3 weeks. We have been speaking to the hotel receptionist and she thinks we’ll get to Sydney in about 3hours... so we shall be lunching tomorrow in Sydney!! Wooo!!! The plan after the three weeks... at the minute we are hoping to get work and stay there for the foreseeable future. If we don’t like it, we may return to Melbourne. We had found that as we have visited city after city the atmosphere is getting better and better.... so here’s hoping Sydney is wonderful!!
And that my lovelies is the update for now!! I will be in touch- to everyone- have a wonderful Christmas and I will email you all again in the new year.
Talk to you in 2012!!!!
Love k
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